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Our patron, Dafydd Hardy also has a choice for this year’s christmas bocs nadolig exhibition. He has chosen Stephen John Owen, native of Caernarfon.

“I like his style which appears to my untrained eye to be semi abstract and he is also local. I have never met him but look forward to meeting him one day.”

Both Oriel Dafydd Hardy and bocs are grateful to Dafydd Hardy and Richard Thomas for giving us the opportunity to display and develop our work collectively. So we decided that letting them have a choice of artist at our launch was the least we could do.

Stephen John Owen is Dafydd Hardy’s choice for the christmas bocs nadolig exhibition.

… to the launch of bocs, and of course, for our Christmas bash/exhibition.

Feel free to print out one of these invites and bring them along to our private view. (Right-click the image and click “Save target as”.) Although you’d probably still get in even if you didn’t have one.

christmas bocs nadolig

(bocs’ members choice exhibition)
Celebrating the launch of bocs @ ORIEL DAFYDD HARDY

Private View
5th December 6pm-9pm
…then open to the public 06/12/08 - 09/01/09

Exhibiting Artists

• Alexis Snell, chosen by Charlie Yorke
• Catherine Howell, chosen by James Toms
• Dyfrig Peris, chosen by Iestyn Owen
• Elgan Jones, chosen by Huw Erddyn
• Mick Brown, chosen by Gethin Wavell Lloyd Jones
• Naomi Lethbridge, chosen by Siân Green
• Paul Johnson, chosen by Yvonne Tsang
• Poked Studio, chosen by Sally Kwong
• Robert Pepperell, chosen by Meirion Alan Ginsberg
• Rosie Seymore, chosen by Sevan Garo Nigogosian
• Simeon Coxe, chosen by Rhys Lloyd Jones
• Stephen John Owen, chosen by Dafydd Hardy

On behalf of Oriel Dafydd Hardy would like invite you to attend the private view of christmas bocs nadolig, a special members’ choice exhibition to celebrate the launch of our young co-operative, bocs, on Friday 5th December.

bocs is a supportive network of young artists encompassing visual arts, music and performance. Their objective is to establish a focal point to act as a catalyst for excellence in young contemporary art.

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Dyfrig Peris is a local born artist from Penygroes who studied Fine Art in Cheltenham University after completing his Art Foundation in Bangor, he has recently started a screen-printing company based in Nantlle and will be collaborating with local artists to create limited edition screen prints.

His work is influenced by Japanese animation and comic style storytelling and has done a series of drawings where imaginary landscapes are populated by amorphous characters. This is one of the reasons I selected him as my artist of choice, as my work involves creating complex landscapes dealing with perspective, space and depth, be it with ink on paper or with paint. Also I believe it to be beneficial to our group that we get as many local artists involved, as they’ll have extra desire and determination in making this a success.

Dyfrig Peris is Iestyn Owen’s choice for the christmas bocs nadolig exhibition.

Paul “Otaking” Johnson creates his own brand of anime illustrations and animations. His work is vibrant, eclectic, obsessively detailed and is largely influenced by Japanese and Korean artists, most notably Masamune Shirow, Ryūsuke Mita, Satoshi Urushihara and Hyung-tae Kim.

Paul slaves away over a hot computer to produce all of the artwork and animation for indie games company, Studio Trophis, as well as producing his own extensive body of work.

He also loves to court controversy, garnering the ire of many when he released his documentary on “The Rise and Fall of Anime Fansubs“. He certainly doesn’t shy away from the fire when it comes to his strongly held views.

Somehow, he manages to do all this whilst still doing his job as a professional Japanese-English video games translator.

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Poked Studio is Jonathan Ball, an illustrator and graphic designer living in South Wales, “inspired by lo-brow art forms such as cartoons, retro video games, urban art and cute monsters, creating fantasy worlds and characters.”

When I first discovered Poked Studio’s work they instantly made me smile, and in the case of his “murdered fruit” they made me laugh out loud. His cute, quirky and sometimes macabre illustrations appealed to my visual senses as well as my sense of fun and I began to notice his work in all sorts of places. Poked Studio has an impressive list of clients including the BBC, MTV, Sony Playstation and the National Library of Wales. His work also features as the desktop wallpaper on another bocs member’s computer.

Discovering that he was Welsh and a native of Cardiff was a pleasant surprise. I believe that Poked Studio is a prime example of high-calibre Welsh art with true international appeal.

Poked Studio is Sally Kwong’s choice for the christmas bocs nadolig exhibition.