A new community exhibition opened in Rhyl Library Gallery on Saturday, the result of a collaboration between Denbighshire Arts Service’s Lost in Art group with Ysgol Bro Cinmeirch, Llanrhaeadr.
Lost in Art is a project aimed at people with dementia and their carers. Each week, participants visit the galleries at Ruthin Craft Centre and create work with artist Sian Hughes, inspired by those exhibitions. The group on this occasion, worked closely with Year 4 pupils from Ysgol Bro Cinmeirch who joined them at the Craft Centre for a workshop. The Lost in Art group also visited the school for a workshop as well as a special ‘pop up’ exhibition of their collaborative work held on Monday, July 14th.
Sian Fitzgerald, Denbighshire County Council’s Arts Officer said: “The group were able to share their creative ideas with the children, thereby raising awareness of dementia and how it affects people in the community. We are grateful for the school’s support and the wonderful turn out to the ‘pop up’ exhibition. There is now an opportunity for the general public to see the exhibition inspired by the nonsense poem The Owl and the Pussycat at Rhyl Library Education Gallery.”
The exhibition opens in Rhyl on 19 July and will run until 30 August 2014.
Lost in Art is funded by the Arts Council of Wales and Denbighshire County Council.
