Tag: exhibition

Posted on

Plas Brondanw Open 2025


I’m pleased to announce that Summer ’76 and Summer 2022 Part 2 have been jury selected for the Plas Brondanw Open 2025.

Summer '76
Summer ’76

The exhibition will be on show at Plas Brondanw, Llanfrothen, Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, LL48 6SW, from 8 March – 4 May.

Summer 2022 Part 2
Summer 2022 Part 2

“The theme of this year’s exhibition is ‘Space’, and it has inspired a varied and exciting response among our artists, with works in all mediums from textiles and sculptures to oil paintings, photographs and drawings of all kinds. The content also varies from the mythological to the scientific and from the abstract to the figurative, and we have an amazing selection of experienced and new artists.” ~ Plas Brondanw

Thank you to Sian Elen, Contemporary Art Curator at Plas Brondanw for including my work in the exhibition.

Plas Brondanw & Susan Williams-Ellis

Susan Williams-Ellis, the elder daughter of Clough Williams-Ellis (best known as the genius behind the creation of Portmeirion Village ), was the founder of Portmeirion Pottery. Susan and her husband Euan Cooper-Willis began Portmeirion Pottery in 1960. Susan’s designs were at the forefront of contemporary style.

Plas Brondanw
Plas Brondanw

The success of Portmeirion Potteries was only one facet of Susan’s life and work. Susan was an accomplished artist and author, drawing inspiration from the sea as did her father. Susan studied at Chelsea School of Art under Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland. Her paintings exhibited at the Festival of Britain. Several rooms at Portmeirion Village are furnished with her textile designs.

Portmerion Pottery designs by Susan Williams-Ellis. Design called Cypher, Totem and Jupiter.
Portmerion Pottery designs by Susan Williams-Ellis. Designs called Cypher, Totem and Jupiter.

Plas Brondanw (the house and gallery) is the home of the Susan Williams-Ellis Foundation. The charity – established after Susan’s death – conserves her archive and ensures her work and that of the wider family are available to the public. 

Posted on

Tŷ Pawb Open 2024

I’m pleased to announce that the Giant Cauliflower Harvest has been jury selected for the Tŷ Pawb Open 2024.

Around 450 artists submitted work. After jury selection 100 artworks were chosen for the final exhibition.

The exhibition will be on show at the Tŷ Pawb, Market St, Wrexham, Wales LL13 8BB, from 16th November 2024 – 8th February 2025.

This year’s Judge is Alan Dunn, a Glasgow-born Artist based in Liverpool. Alan creates artworks using sound and digital images, collaborating with thousands of citizens to unlock the hidden narrative in communities. He has developed projects with ICA, BBC Radio, Tate Britain, National Science & Media Museum and Liverpool Art Prize.

Giant Cauliflower Harvest part of the Tŷ Pawb Open 2024
Giant Cauliflower Harvest part of the Tŷ Pawb Open 2024

During the launch event (Friday 15th November from 6pm) the winners of the Judge’s Prize (£1000) and the Traders’ Prize (£500) will be announced.

A ‘People’s Prize (£500), selected by public votes, will be awarded at the conclusion of the exhibition.

Update: 15th November 2024

The exhibition launch evening was incredibly busy.

I found the exhibition beautifully curated.
I found the exhibition beautifully curated.
The artworks were labelled in English and Welsh.
The artworks were labelled in English and Welsh.

There were quite a few visitors who took time out to read the Giant Cauliflower Harvest.

Posted on

Peterloo

House of Smalls

A new exhibition at the House of Smalls called ‘Moral Fibre’ prompted me to create a new piece of work called ‘Peterloo’ for the Dollhouse gallery. 

The exhibition takes place at The House of Smalls, 103 Henderson Row, Stockbridge, Edinburgh EH3 5BB from 1st – 25th August 2024. Part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

‘A good life is like a weaving. Energy is created in the tension. The struggle, the pull and tug are everything’ ~ Joan Erikson

Artists in the Dollhouse 'Moral Fibre' exhibition
Artists in the Dollhouse ‘Moral Fibre’ exhibition

Peterloo

“If we don’t vote, we are ignoring history and giving away the future” Pat Mitchell.

Our vote matters.

Peterloo
Peterloo

With each election, I think of those who came before us. Those who fought to give us the Right to Vote. Emelia Pankhurst and the fight for Women’s Suffrage; and the peaceful protestors at Peterloo in 1819.

On 16 August 1819, 60,000 people congregated in St Peter’s Field in Manchester – the largest ever political gathering of working-class people. Folk from towns across Lancashire marched to the field carrying banners with slogans supporting political reform and the right to vote; included were workers from Middleton near Rochdale, carrying a banner of locally woven blue silk, with the words ‘Liberty, Fraternity, Unity, Strength’ in hand-painted gold lettering.

Peterloo
Peterloo

Their peaceful protest turned bloody when Manchester magistrates gave orders to disperse the crowd. The Yeomanry pulled out their sabres and charged the crowd on horseback.  An estimated 18 people died and more than 650 were injured in the chaos.

The tragic incident is known as the Peterloo Massacre. A moment when ordinary people stepped up to protest in a way that has made its mark in history and with a legacy that lives on to today.

Size 11.5 x 11.5cm. Hand embroidered cotton cloth, DMC embroidery thread.

The Middleton banner is part of the Touchstones Rochdale archives.

Credit: Touchstones Rochdale, People’s History Museum.

This piece forms part of a series of small works created for the House of Smalls.

Update August 2024:

Peterloo in the ‘Moral Fibre’ Dollhouse exhibition.

Dollhouse exhibition
Dollhouse exhibition
Dollhouse
Dollhouse exhibition
Dollhouse exhibition