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On Being a Writer in Wales: Anne Keer
2+ hour, 13+ min ago (204+ words) I knew this loss of balance was relatively new. Had there been a different, earlier way of knowing in relation to the natural world? A way that we'd lost?" But already modernity is pressing, and her thoroughly modern husband, Walter,…...
Book review: Encounters with Ivor Davies, edited by Helen Phillips
22+ hour, 23+ min ago (1156+ words) In a culturally just world Ivor Davies would be well-known everywhere. He is among Wales" pre-eminent contemporary artists and has contributed enormously to rescuing Wales from a visual arts nether world where it lay for generations. Welsh art still faces…...
Calan Mai: Welsh May Day Traditions - Fire, Magic & Mischief
3+ week, 2+ day ago (528+ words) Here in Wales, this time of year brings a whole bundle of traditions, superstitions and rituals linked to May Day. Many are said to reach back into the distant past, to the old pagan fire festivals that marked the changing…...
Catrin Williams to showcase solo exhibition celebrating Welsh life and landscapes
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (349+ words) A new solo exhibition of work from Catrin Williams will open this May, celebrating her distinctive take on life, landscape and identity in Wales. Celebration will show at Cardiff's Celf Gallery from 2 to 31 May 2026, featuring Catrin's characteristic colourful oil paintings…...
80 Years in the Life - A photography exhibition by Jon Pountney
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (200+ words) The WNO 80th anniversary exhibition at Wales Millennium Centre ( installed in the upper foyer on the right of the entrance area.) is hugely enlightening. It shows a company at work with many behind the scenes glimpses showing the work and dedication…...
National Library of Wales exhibition celebrates curator's 34-year career
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (269+ words) On 14 April a new exhibition will open in the National Library of Wales to celebrate Curator of Photography Will Troughton's remarkable career in collecting. "The Curator's Lens: A Career in Collecting'features a special selection of images chosen by Will to…...
Emerging photographers invited to represent Wales in new national commission
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (384+ words) The commission links in with the current Portrait and Power exhibition at the National Library, which focuses on those that have often been left out of history, and implores how traditional roles reflect the stories we tell about gender, race,…...
New photography exhibition celebrates decade of creativity in South Wales Valleys
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (201+ words) Working under the studio name Bleak Fabulous, Schneidermann and James create work that is socially-engaged and participatory. This exhibition presents a long-term creative collaboration with young people from Blaenau Gwent and Merthyr Tydfil. "As the project reaches this milestone anniversary,…...
Never too old: Welsh artists creating into their 90s and beyond
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (434+ words) An art collector has highlighted fine artists continuing to create work into their 90s and beyond, celebrating Wales, its landscapes and people. Instagram user celf. cymreig, "a retired University of Wales academic, and small-time collector of Welsh art, regularly posts tips…...
Iolo Williams celebrates wildlife that's back from the brink in new S4 C series
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (603+ words) As spring makes an appearance, Iolo Williams is taking viewers along with him to explore Europe's natural beauty and wildlife in a new S4 C series. N'l o'r Dibyn (Back from the Brink) will follow the naturalist and broadcaster on a…...