Find out more about projects, activities and events organised by Oriel Myrddin Gallery
Sunday 23 July 11am – 1pm
Explore the history of the wool industry in and around Dre-fach Felindre with Oriel Myrddin Gallery and local artist and founder of Make it in Wales, Suzi Park.
Meeting and finishing at the National Wool Museum, SA44 5UP.
Open to all / No need to book
Free
Sketchbooks and drawing materials provided. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Dress for being outdoors and wear sensible shoes.
Take a stroll along King street to spot our laundry hanging in shop windows. You’ll find socks, aprons, and combinations, bloomers sheets skirts and vests billowing in the wind, all created by participants of the Atgofion o’r Golchdy Project at Cartref Cynnes and including artwork by Carmarthen Artsit Network artists Lousie Bird and Victoria Malcolm.
Thank you to artist penny d jones for getting us all talking about washdays past!
And thank you to all of the King street shops who participated:
Hearing Aid Solutions, Magpies, Plant Dewi Charity Shop, Floral Décor, Oriel King Street Gallery, Community crafts and Greenspace Gallery.
The art trail is on show until 15th May 2017.
Sunday 14th May 2017
11am – 1pm
With artist and poet, Clare Ferguson-Walker
Explore Laugharne with local artist and Poet Clare Ferguson-Walker and sketch this beautiful seaside village on Dylan Thomas Day.
Meet at 11am by the sculpture of Dylan Thomas in the carpark by the castle on The Strand (it’s the carpark that looks out to the estuary) and finish at The Dylan Thomas Boathouse Tearooms at 1pm.
Free/ No need to book
Sketchbooks and drawing materials provided.
Open to all, from complete beginners to experienced sketchers. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.
Come dressed for being outdoors and wear sensible footwear.
Photograph courtesy of Dylan Thomas Boathouse, photographer: Gareth Davies
Soprano a Sialc // Soprano and Chalk event in Carmarthen was a collaboration between Oriel Myrddin Gallery and Theatr Genedlathol on Saturday 8th April for BBC Get Creative weekend 2017.
Theatr Genedlaethol, who have their HQ in Carmarthen, brought the sounds of Opera to the streets with live Soprano singer Jessica Robinson and Oriel Myrddin Gallery teamed up with BA2 Fine Art: Painting, Drawing & Printmaking students from Carmarthen School of Art to get the public drawing on the pavements.
“Get Creative is a great way for arts organisations to reach out to the wider community, show what we do out and about and get people to interact who may not always think of participating in the arts. It’s great to work together with another organisation Theatr Genedlaethol and to collaborate across different artforms- music, performance and visual art. Lotd of people stopped by to observe, take part and enjoy our Carmarthen Town spectacle and the sun wash shining too!” Seren Stacey, Education Officer, Oriel Myrddin Gallery
We’d like to extend a big thank you to students Mark Dugdale, Amy Davies, Xander Fox Robinson , Ellie Dragone from Carmarthen School of Art for leading the pavement art workshop.
Atgofion o’r Golchdy our new community project begins in a week and today there are last minute emails flying and boxes of art materials being prepared. The project will be Participants will create beautiful works of art which will be exhibited in shops along King Street in Carmarthen’s cultural quarter.
The project runs alongside our exhibition of David Jones’ work – Angels on Washing Lines, in the gallery 18th of March – 13th May. David Jones is a dynamic older artist producing new and exciting visual art pieces, he produces a wide variety of work and is greatly influenced by outsider art and folk art, so it seems a very fitting inspiration for a community art project.
Pembrokeshire artist penny d jones will carry out the workshops with residents at extra care scheme Cartref Cynnes. Penny will encourage participants to reminisce around the subject of laundry, and in a follow up workshop participants will create works of art – paintings on wooden shapes – representing their stories and memories. The painted wooden works of art will be displayed strung on washing lines in shop windows.
Exploring memories helps minimise the negative impact of conditions such as dementia, this is known as nostalgia therapy and is a growing field of study. As a recent guardian article cites “nostalgia is shown to be both a driver of empathy and social connectedness, and a potent internal antidote for loneliness and alienation.”
The project aims to provide an opportunity to challenge negative or stereotypical images of older people within the community by giving them a platform on which to display their art work. Our hope is that participants will deepen existing relationships and make new ones and that the wider community will also see that ordinary people can engage fully in art activities helping to break down the feeling some people have that the arts are the preserve of the elite and well educated.
May 2017
A community project exploring and celebrating older women’s stories and memories of wash days past.
Participants will create work which will be exhibited in the shop windows of King Street.
The project links with the David Jones exhibition Angels on Washing Lines in the Oriel Myrddin Gallery from 18th March – 13th May.
THE READING ROOM, MANORBIER
The ‘Sea Empress’ Project is delighted to host an evening of short artfilm screenings and performance.
Gilly Booth, an international artist film maker originally from Manorbier, Pembrokeshire, will be screening her film Continuum, made in 1996 in response to the Sea Empress oil spill, along with associative works, including her film Bomb, Margarite Duras‘s film L’Homme Atlantique. Writer and theorist Stephen Barber, whose books have been proclaimed as ‘brilliant, profound and provocative’ by the Times newspaper, will be reading and extract from his book European Memory Zones: Conciousness, Conflict, Continental Drift. Ceri Matthews & Julie Murphy will perform Bethal, a Welsh protest song and the evening will be rounded up with a performance by vinyl DJ artist, Jacob Whittaker.
Drinks sponsored by Brecon Gin and Peter Spanton Drinks
ALL WELCOME. FREE OF CHARGE.
Please RSVP by emailing : seaempressproject96@gmail.com
The Manorbier Reading Room
The ‘Sea Empress’ Project is delighted to host a collaboration between local wildlife expert Mick Brown and sound artist Rob St John.
Rob and Mick will be recording Pembrokeshire soundscapes; birds, sea mammals and lighthouses amongst others and re-presenting them in an informative way to an audience this coming Saturday.
Open your ears and learn more about Pembrokeshire, it’s wildlife and its industries during this informal, illuminating and experiential event.
The event is FREE, please RSVP by emailing:seaempressproject96@gmail.com
SEA EMPRESS is a publication produced in association with the ‘Sea Empress’ Project hosted by the Reading Room in Manorbier, Pembrokeshire. This edition is third of a series including Tide, Deep Time, Animism and Memory.
1000 printed copies have been distributed across Pembrokeshire and will be help by National Library of Wales archives. A digital copy can be seen here
