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Recent Work by Ioan Griffith + Morgan Griffith
4 - 30 September 2010

Looking At Faces is an exhibition of recent work by brothers Morgan and Ioan Griffith.

With both artists working on a similar theme with contrasting approaches, Morgan’s work is painting and collage based, whilst Ioan has produced a slide projected installation using a penry facial identification kit.

Humour is a strong element in both artists work.

Ioan can be contacted on 07880 846 892 and Morgan on 07885 853 547

MYMPWY

Recent work by SIÂN GREEN

Opening Friday Night 13 August (6-8pm) 14 - 27 August 2010 Oriel Dafydd Hardy, 12 Y Maes, Caernarfon LL55 2NF

14 - 27 August 2010 Oriel Dafydd Hardy, 12 Y Maes, Caernarfon LL55 2NF

Anthony Lee Morgan
Duel
July 16 - August 6

Anthony is one of the local young artists that Oriel Dafydd Hardy has followed from Sixth Form through Foundation to Graduation from Leeds University.

Anthony made a big impact in the early days of Oriel Dafydd Hardy by staging a solo show at just 17 years old, whilst still studying at Ysgol Syr Hugh Owen. “Oddi Wrth Y Wal” / “Off The Wall” was an light and sound installation blacking out the basement and providing visitors with torches as they stepped down into the noise of graffitied New York Subway. He was featured in the S4C programme Uned 5.

Subsequently, whilst doing his foundation course at Coleg Menai, Anthony joined three other ex-Syr Hugh Owen pupils to stage ” Wylit Waed ” - an exhibition exploring the anger of 21st Century young Welsh people today with that of Gerallt Lloyd Owen’s 1960s generation. This exhibition again had extensive national media coverage.

Returning now, after completing his degree in Fine Art at Leeds University, the focus of 22 year old Anthony’s exhibition “Duel” is two life-size steel figures……standing back to back.

Anthony says ” We all fall into the trap of a “Duel” everyday….whether we duel a friend, or family, the world and more frequently ourselves. Now that you know, ask yourself why?”

Through the influence of Peter Prendergast upon the structure of Coleg Menai’s Foundation course, and his strong belief in drawing as the means by which a subject may be grasped, it is not unsurprising that Anthony leans heavily towards Giacometti for inspiration.

“My entire portfolio consists of large scale figurative 3D projects and I now have the problem of where to store them….I think they will have to go in the garden of my parents’ place in Maesincla for the time being!”

“I’d love to do a series of public sculpture for Caernarfon….I would be prepared to carry out the work for little or no fee, so long as the materials were provided…I’d consider it a such an honour. I want to try and contribute to making Caernarfon a centre for art, a national symbol of Welsh culture. I’d like to add colour to the town…something make tourists want to come back here again and again. Imagine a series of red Welsh dragons around Caernarfon…with one perched on top of Twthill…imagine the impact this would have on the tourist industry!”

Anthony can be contacted on 07779 946 158

The Voice of Youth

This project is a partnership between Academi, Gwynedd Council and Oriel Dafydd Hardy to celebrate the new Maes in Caernarfon. The Voice of Youth was an opportunity for local children to express their feelings about this new development in their town through workshops with the bard, Meirion Macintyre Huws.  The schools who took part in the project were Syr Hugh Owen , Hendre, Maesincla, Gelli , Santes Helen and Pendalar.

Gwen Lasarus Literature Promoter for Gwynedd said:
‘ I’m very happy to see the fruit of the children’s creative writing work in poster form with local artist’s original art work being presented to the children from each school. These children will remember this experience for a long time.’

Members of bocs were invited to transcribe the children’s poems into posters.

The gallery reopens after the November flooding with a show of new work by Manchester based Scottish artist Naomi Lethbridge.

With an installation that eerily echoes the recent fate of the gallery; the artist will show work addressing the themes of abundance and excess, in both the subject matter and methods of the work. The work examines the abundance that has fuelled empire, expansion, progress and wars, and the reduction of such bounties to commodities and curiosities.

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