Attic Gallery, Swansea
Sat 6 May – Sat 3 Jun
David Carpanini will have his work exhibited at Swansea’s Attic Gallery. His work has been the subject of three television documentaries and has been acquired by numerous prestigious collections including the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Newport Museum and Art Gallery, the Queen, Windsor, National Museum of Wales and many more.
Whilst most of his work is devoted to the presentation of the valleys and former mining communities of South Wales he has also undertaken numerous portrait commissions. Most recently he has begun to explore his Italian roots with a series of drawings and etchings of the towns and landscapes of northern and central Italy.
David Carpanini contributed to the 2004 Attic Gallery exhibition – Visions of the Valleys – which featured 10 artists and their responses to living in or observing the South Wales industrial valleys.
Carpanini has said of his own work: “My inspiration lies in the contemplation of the familiar. I believe that man has a special bond, a special relationship with that part of Earth which nourishes his boyhood and it is in the valleys and former mining communities of South Wales, scarred by industrialisation but home for a resolute people that I have found the trigger for my creative imagination.”
Admission: free. Info: 017 9265 3387 / www.atticgallery.co.uk