Last Shift at the Avon I by David Carpanini
Oriel Plas Glyn Y Weddw’s spring exhibition opens on March the 21st with a dedication to the tumultuous struggle of the miners strike. The year-long dispute in the mid 1980’s pitted the National Union of Mineworkers, led by Arthur Scargill, against Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government.
In 2010 they mark the 25th anniversary of the confrontation that led to the destruction of the coal mining industry in south Wales.
As a result the work of David Carpanini gives us a poignant record of a bygone age. As an artist he remains inspired by what lies in the contemplation of the familiar. He believes that man has a special bond with that part of Earth which nourished his boy-hood. lt is the valleys and former mining communities of South Wales, scarred by industrialisation but home to a resolute people, that triggers his creative imagination.
Joining David Carpanini in the Spring Exhibition will be Wynne Jenkins. This is Wynne’s only exhibition in 2010 and is focused on his time sketching on the Llyn Peninsula and in Snowdonia. Inspired by the people and the rural communities of the region the artist produces humorous reflections on Wales, through colourful angular buildings and landscapes.
The Spring exhibition also features works from Rosa Sepple. The London born artist produces exciting, vibrant and highly original paintings in watercolour, collage and oil. This is her first exhibition in north Wales.
Manchester based photographer Michael Swallow gives a richly textural and compositionally unified exhibition of images that are, in his own words, ‘of transcendental moments within the Llyn landscape’.
The upstairs studio gallery features an exhibition produced by ‘Seren’ students, under the tutelage of Rhydyclafdy based professional artist Tess Urbanska and CoIeg Harlech WEA. Seren was established as a charitable trust in 1997 with the main purpose of offering peopIe with Iearning disabilities the opportunity to work, Iive independently and socialise within their community.
Set against the picturesque walls of Oriel Plas Glyn Y Weddw this richly varied exhibition will run from March 21st until May 9th. For further information please contact the gallery on 01758740763 or [email protected]
