Corrie Chiswell

St David’s Hall Christmas Show

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http://www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk/

20th November – 23rd December

Off The Wall Christmas Show

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http://www.galleryoffthewall.com/index.php

15th November – 23rd December

Tuesday to Friday 9.30-5.30
Saturday 10.00-4.00

Monday & Bank Holidays Closed
Sunday Closed

Off the Wall,
The Old Probate Registry,
Cardiff Road,
Llandaff,
Cardiff
CF5 2DQ

Tel : 029 2055 4469

‘Crunch’ Festival 2011

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For 2011, the Crunch Art Fair returns with a showcase work by some of Europe’s most exciting contemporary galleries, housed in the new exhibitions space in the Crunch Art Pavilion. Also new this year is the Art Salon, an engaging event and café space within the Art Pavilion, where a selection of speakers will be discussing their work and practices throughout the weekend.

With internationally-renowned artists like Bracha Ettinger, Shezad Darwood and Slinkachu exhibiting alongside established and emerging British names like David Rickard, Boo Ritson and Jake Chapman, the Fair is a prime opportunity to see new work by leading artists and discover the bright young things of the future.

http://artfestivalathay.org/crunch-art-fair/

18th-20th November

Cage

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Oil on Canvas H49cm x W41cm October 2011 SOLD

Empress

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Oil on Canvas 33cm x 33cm October 2011 SOLD

Beauty and The Beast

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Beauty and The Beast
Oil on Canvas
H127cm x W102cm
Aug 2011

Affordable Arts Fair, St Davids Hall, Cardiff

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Group exhibition from the 25th August 2011 till November 2011

For further information and images; please contact
Ruth Cayford, Exhibition Officer,Foyer Galleries, St David’s Hall, the Hayes, and Cardiff, CF10 ISH
 Email: rcayford@cardiff.gov.uk
 Tel: 029 20878706

Artemesia, St David’s Hall, Cardiff

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Artemisia
“Maybe the existing forms of art for the ideas men have had are inadequate for the ideas women have.”‘ Susana Torre, 1976
An Exhibition of contemporary Women Artists who practice in Wales, celebrating the ideas they have in 2011
Curated by Ruth Cayford.
Artemisia Gentileschi lends her name to this extensive exhibition, which brings together the work of numerous women artists currently active in Wales. She was not only an extraordinary Renaissance artist, but also occupied a key role in the recovery of women artists’ history begun by feminists around forty years ago, who sifted through centuries of neglect, not only to uncover forgotten women artists, but perhaps more importantly, they identified shared expressions for the women artists yet to come.
Art’s forms and content have not been without issues for women artists, since both had been defined by male artists. It took a further ideological leap for women to shift from battling with exclusion to a positive questioning of approaches to creativity, emerging from a wish to express their differences, differently. That women might re-define art’s practice by exploring what had hitherto been invisible or defined as ‘not art’, produced some provocative work. Stylistic innovation was perhaps not the most important of these differences, the ‘ideas that women have’ most certainly was. It became clear that historical frictions bound in to the two roles – woman and artist – presented them with unique challenges. What has become clearer now, is that these challenges have enriched their work.
Women’s greater participation in art has transformed art, flipping the subtly nuanced labels sometimes used to relegate their work to obscurity in the Fine Arts (charming, decorative, domestic) entirely on their heads. Refusing hierarchies, they have explored (using that old feminist adage) the personal with the political, intimacy with the allegorical, sensitivity with edginess, the fragile with the dark, fantasy with fetish. In short their creative strategies are as diverse and multi-textured as women themselves, and are abundantly evidenced in this exhibition.
The complexity of human relationships, including self-identity, is navigated through memory and fantasy, and is just as likely to be intensely personal as it is universally symbolic. Desires for connection are also explored through responses to place or location, and might reference the landscape of history, or even pre-history, or the personal space of the domestic. The body, that well contested area, is still of immense importance to a number of the artists here, particularly evidenced through performance based art; its potential for ritual significance seems endless. Drawing is clearly immensely valued as a visualising tool, but no more so than stitching, printing, constructing, photographing, filming and mark making from the fragile to the urgent.
But never forget that whilst our recognition of the ideas and creativity which women have brought to art may seem a recent understanding, in truth Artemisia was already there; it is recognised that her intense portrayal of powerful women differed from interpretations by her male peers. The contest we now face, in a time when arts education is seriously threatened, is that of ensuring that the gains women artists have made in the past forty years are never underestimated and continue to influence art. This exhibition is a timely reminder that Artemisia’s legacy needs to be wholeheartedly celebrated.
Sue Griffith.
Head of School of Contextual Studies & Fine Art.
Swansea Metropolitan University.

Featuring Sue Williams, Rozanne Hawksley, Catrin Webster, Di Setch, Dilys Jackson, Virginia Head, Rebecca Spooner, Adele Vye, Fern Thomas, Amanda Roderick, Gemma Copp, Anna Barrett, Jacqueline Alkema, Corrie Chiswell, Becky Adams, Susan Adams, Kathryn Ashill, Kathryn Campbell Dodd, Heather Eastes, Annie Giles Hobbs, Ruth Harries, Penny Hallas, Mary Husted,
Daphne Hurn, Ann Jordon, Tiff Oben, Luned Rhys Parri, Jane Taylor, Miranda Whall, Dawn Woolley, Sue Hunt, Rebecca Gould, Eirian Llwyd, Lisa Jones, Nicola O’Neill, Ruth McLees, Bella Kerr, Helen Booth, Jean Walcot, Jo Alexander, Wendy Couling, Su Roberts, Janet Walters and Lisa Tann.

RUTH CAYFORD
Exhibitions Officer / Swyddog Arddangosfeydd
St David’s Hall
Cardiff
CF10 1SH

Tel / Ffon 029 2087 8706
Fax / Ffacs 029 2087 8599
e-mail / e-bost RCayford@cardiff.gov.uk

‘Myth, Magic and Madness’, The View Gallery, Bristol

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‘MYTH, MAGIC AND MADNESS’ 9th SEPT – 30th OCTOBER

Our next major exhibition is co-curated by Clare Ferguson-Walker. We first got excited by Clare’s work last year when she made the trip from Wales to show us her beautiful sculptures and we were riveted by the stories behind them. We were even more excited to discover Clare was part of a collective who had a strong connection with each other through their love of myth and magic, with a hint of madness. We were soon planning an exhibition.
The best way to describe the theme of the exhibition is in Clare’s own words…
‘Throughout history people have told and retold stories, and often through them have passed on covert insights into human nature via fantasy characters and scenarios. Over time a subtle language of metaphor and symbolism has been built up often uniting people of differing cultural backgrounds. We dream in metaphors, it is how our subconscious mind relates to the world, and perhaps when the barriers between the conscious and subconscious mind break down in waking hours and “normal” reality is experienced from a different perspective we can be called mad, yet some cultures would and do seek out these states, going into trances to retrieve information from the symbolic realm, which can be brought back and used to help the community. So perhaps the “mad” have something to share, to teach, and perhaps if we learn to decipher the clues we see in our dreams we can become more holistically ourselves. If we can influence the wider world by manipulating objects of symbolic significance, can we perform magic? Are we the creators of our own destiny if we believe we are? Perhaps truths hidden deep within old myths and fairytales can help to unlock our hidden potential as masters of our own physical world.

“Myth, Magic, Madness” is a show of work by 5 outstanding artists who are each communicating their unique take on these interwoven themes, thus taking on the role of Shaman in our all too often secular western society.

The exhibition opens on September 9 and runs for 8 weeks. The artist line-up is: Clare Ferguson-Walker, Corrie Chiswell, Glenn Ibbitson, Laura Meredith, and Adam White. An online catalogue will be available nearer the time and images posted soon.

ABOUT THE GALLERY

View is one of the South West’s most exciting contemporary art galleries, situated in Bristol’s Harbourside. We’re here to champion new art and new artists, and bring a refreshingly informal approach to the way you can view and buy art.
We welcome everyone from the keenest collectors and corporate-art buyers, to people buying original art for the first time – or who just happen to be passing by and fancy a look.

Summer Show, Off The Wall Gallery, Cardiff

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off the wall- summer extravaganza friday august 5th, 6-8pm. show lasts until september 13th.

If you are looking for a piece of art or sculpture that is truly different or a little bit quirky, then look no further. Off the Wall, Wales’ premier, modern, contemporary art gallery features art of the highest quality from some of the most talented artists in Wales, the UK and internationally. It aims to bring work to Cardiff that is fresh and exciting from both new and established artists. Director of the gallery, Marlene Outrim, says” Our vision was to have a “London” type gallery, here in Cardiff, but one where the ambience was friendly and welcoming and non intimidating as can be the case of some high end galleries.” People tell us what a fabulous looking gallery it is and housed in a grade II listed building, it adds to the overall glamour. It was recently used to film one of Wales’ Olympic hopefuls, Carys Parry. If you have not yet visited the gallery, now is the time, during the summer months, to view & buy work from a fantastic collection of art that is not only modern & contemporary but likely to be very special. Stephen Lovatts, Paresh Nrshinga, Michael Jackson, Martyn Jones, Ciara Lewis, Eloise Govier, Stuart Ellis, Jamie Treadwell, Martin Evans, Elfyn Lewis, David Roberts, Cat James, Andie Clay, Corrie Chiswell, Jane Price, Gwynfa Bawler ,Steffan Johnson, Bernard Fleming ,Clare Ferguson-Walker, Antonia Spowers ,Malcolm Croft, M J Forster, Emma Sian Pritchard, Isabel Mitchell, Jon Prothero, Sarah Jane Brown, Elle Hesse, Patricia McParlin, David Day, Jason Davies, Sasha Kingston, Angela Kingston, Jacqueline Alkema, Peter Slade, Robert Jones, Mark Jessett, Glyn Bateman, Robert Pugh, Elena Kourenkova & Mark Cooke.

Opening Hours

Tuesday to Friday 9.30-5.30
Saturday 10.00-4.00

Monday & Bank Holidays Closed
Sunday Closed

Address

Off the Wall,
The Old Probate Registry,
Cardiff Road,
Llandaff,
Cardiff
CF5 2DQ

Tel : 029 2055 4469