Artivism: GREY FILASTINE & NOVA RUTH set sail on solar-powered ship for immersive art project
Ahead of an immersive screening in Cardiff’s Cultvr venue in early November, Hari Berrow speaks to experimental art duo Grey Filastine and Nova Ruth.
Art
From galleries, exhibitions, artists and openings, to architecture, photography and more, here's the latest from the world of art.
The debut solo exhibition of Swansea’s prodigious teen painter MAKENZY BEARD shows her artistic soul
MAKENZY BEARD has been dubbed Wales' most prodigious young artist and if her current collection is anything to go by, they're not wrong.
SYLVIA PLATH: DRAWINGS – touching & lively personal journal of an author’s hidden talent
Pictorial and literary elements intertwine to create a touching and personal journal of place in Slyvia Plath's Drawings.
THE STORY OF ART WITHOUT MEN: glorious & pioneering corrective into female artists
The Story Of Art Without Men is a glorious and pioneering corrective into female and gender non-conformist artists often overlooked and excluded from the past 500 years.
Blackwater Gallery’s FAR A DAY lets two emerging female digital artists leave their mark
This summer, Cardiff’s Blackwater Gallery collaborates with the women-led empowerment initiative Her Mark for their latest art exhibition, Far A Day.
Transcend your own body at Cardiff’s incredible – and slightly terrifying – DREAMACHINE experience
A transcendental and enjoyable ride, Dreamachine is what I’d imagine would happen if you died and your soul was travelling to the next experience.
Everyone needs to experience Bristol’s immersive VAN GOGH exhibition
Whatever your relationship with art, the Van Gogh: Immersive Experience in Bristol is well worth the entrance fee.
FOX: NEIGHBOUR VILLAIN ICON: a spellbinding look at the misunderstood red fox
Fox: Neighbour Villain Icon takes a deep dive into the life of the red fox, with essays by natural history experts and other academics.
Photobook A WORLD IN RUINS preserves abandoned buildings via image
James Lacey's photos of decaying buildings in A World In Ruins serve as a form of preservation in the face of demolition.
Cultvr Lab’s latest audiovisual experience ILLUSORY CONTOURS channels THE MATRIX
Designed by artists Tom Slater and Jeremy Keenan, Illusory Contours allowed attendees to experience what it might feel like to enter the world of The Matrix in Cardiff.
Cultvr Lab hosts mesmerising audiovisual art experience, MONOCOLOR: ENTANGLED STRUCTURES
If you’ve ever wondered what it would feel like to journey inside Joy Division’s iconic Unknown Pleasures album artwork, the audiovisual art piece Entangled Structures is for you.
Blackwater Gallery’s eclectic UNDOD exhibit spotlights emerging Welsh artists
Undod – translating as ‘unity’ for non-Welsh speaking readers – at Cardiff’s Blackwater Gallery plays host to art that should suit every taste.
What Photography & Incarceration Have In Common With An Empty Vase – Edgar Martins
With his most recent project, Portuguese-born visual artist Edgar Martins set himself a challenge: to capture absence – or, to put it in slightly less abstract terms, to photograph the …
DAVID HURN: SWAPS brings renowned photography collective’s work to the centre of Wales
David Hurn: Swaps - originally staged to mark the 70th birthday of famous photography collective, Magnum - brings a breathtaking collection to Cardiff.
Celebrate St. Dwynwen’s Day with special WELSH LOVE TOKENS museum talk
Cardiff's National Museum is marking St Dwynwen’s Day – the Welsh alternative to St. Valentine's - with a special (date night?) talk on Welsh Love Tokens.
11 unique, boredom-busting things to do safely in Wales this January
Beat the January - and Omnicron - blues in Wales with these one-of-a-kind places to eat at, engage with or explore in saftey.
360-degree cinema: IMMERSDIFF – an innovative, one of a kind experience in Cardiff
Cultvr Lab's IMMERSDIFF programme of 3D cinema in Cardiff was not something Lynda Nash expected to be so awe-inspiring or profound.
WINDRUSH CYMRU exhibition brings Welsh stories of pain and power to light
Windrush Cymru, featuring vital stories of nearly 50 Windrushers and their descendants in Wales, is currently at Swansea's Waterfront.
PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES: new print exhibit maps Welsh / English divide
Transgressing the English and Welsh divide, new art exhibit in Mold's Theatr Clwyd, Pushing The Boundaries, features work from six printmakers.
Pembrokeshire locals provide poignant subject matter in photo book THE VILLAGE
The Village finds David Wilson depart from images of the Pembrokeshire landscape with which he’s made his name and focuses instead on people.
Hear about THE TWELVE ART DAYS OF CHRISTMAS in Penarth
Penarth's Turner House Gallery welcomes back art historian Morgan Haigh for a lecture that will pique art lovers’ interest.
Rich Welsh weaving traditions revived for Newtown exhibit, BLANKET COVERAGE
Artists like Steve Attwood-Wright – headliner of Blanket Coverage in Newtown's Oriel Davies gallery – are reviving Welsh weaving in the 21st century.
Taliesin’s EXHIBITION ON SCREEN ‘reveals’ over 200 RAPHAEL artworks
Bringing together over 200 of his works for the first time. Exhibition on Screen: Raphael Revealed at the Taliesin brings taste of Rome to Wales.
DANNY MAY’s OBSCENE BEASTS AND CORPSES taking root in Aberystwyth
Following exhibitions at the MOMA and his home town of Machynlleth, Danny May: Obscene Beasts an transfers to Aberystwyth this month