by Georgina Lester | Feb 26, 2015 | Art Articles, Arts Events, Arts News
To celebrate St David’s Day we are holding a Welsh Week next week, a week of Welsh art, food, music and culture.An exhibition will open on Sun 1st March, showing 8 brand new prints by acclaimed artist John Knapp-Fisher, who sadly died at the weekend.Also on display...
by Georgina Lester | Feb 5, 2014 | Art Articles, Arts News, Arts News - Wales, General News
When I watch the news of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death consume the networks and I witness the outpouring of heartfelt sadness at our loss of his brilliance, I can’t help feeling that somehow we must all be held accountable. Not just for Philip but for every artist...
by Articulture Wales | Jan 15, 2014 | Art Articles, Arts Events, Arts News, Arts News - Wales, General News, Uncategorized
Articulture Wales, in partnership with leading Welsh arts organisations, are offering a range of outdoor art commission opportunities in 2014 below. Articulture has come together with the Wye Valley River Festival, the National Eisteddfod and Pontio Arts &...
by Hannah Mackay | Jan 9, 2014 | All About Art, Art Articles, Arts News, Arts Reviews, Blogs, Galleries & Exhibitions
This year, Martin Tinney Gallery in Cardiff celebrates its twelfth year in its current premises. Hannah Mackay looks back on the gallery’s 2007 Gwilym Pritchard exhibition, asking whether it earns Pritchard the nickname ‘Kyffin with colour’, and examining the part the...
by Edwin Rapper | Nov 28, 2013 | Art Articles, Arts News, Arts News - Wales, Cardiff, Celtic Culture, County by County, Folk Music and Dance
The rapper sword dance is a fast traditional English dance whose origins lie in the mining and pit villages of the Durham and Northumberland coalfields and involves five people connected by short, two-handled, flexible sprung steel swords called rappers. The dancers...
by Georgina Lester | Aug 26, 2013 | Art Articles, Arts News, General News
SEO, technology, global economic downturns, upturns, wars, terrorism, and battles with bureaucracy all remain the same in that they are always in a constant state of flux. Everything changes. Some of it changes at an exponential rate. To keep up with each of these...
