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GWAHODDIAD / INVITATION
Gwahoddir chi i arddangosfa / You are invited to the exhibition
Dafad Ddrwg Dannedd Gosod
Bad Wart False Teeth
gan / by
GETHIN WAVELL
11eg - 27ain Tachwedd 2009 / 11th - 27th November 2009

Ac i’r Noson Olaf : Nos Wener 27ain o Dachwedd 7-9yh
Then to the Closing Night : Friday 27th November 7-9pm

“THE EYE, THE HAND, THE HEART”

OCTOBER 10 - 31st 2009

Private View : 9th October 7-9pm

Artist’s statement:

“I feel inseparable from the paintings done by the old masters; I am in a constant conversation with them. I look at everything and I want to respond to everything, from the Baroque to contemporary art from Japan, form Poussin’s Compositions to Jeff Koons kitsch sculptures. It is essential for me to know what is happening around me as it helps me form my context and helps my work develop as I do There is this constant Battle that takes place when I paint questions that arise regarding colour juxtaposition, composition and the possibility of excess marks in corners forming distractions. I want this in my paintings as the result is a constant engagement between colour, form and composition that needs to be tamed and controlled into working and forming the overall painting.
I don’t intend for the observer to come to a conclusion in my paintings, I want my paintings to move and shift with time, but exist in there own time and space were the viewer enters and feels comfortable in observing without the need to come to a conclusion.”

Bocs has been invited to stage the “graffitti box” project, which was conjured up for the official opening of Castle Square in Caernarfon, at the opening of the National Eisteddfod in Y Bala on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd August.

Most people visiting Caernarfon last week would have seen dozens of children enjoying painting and drawing alongside the artists on our huge 6ft white box. The theme in Y Bala will be “Gwynedd on the Box” and, after the artists have completed their artwork, visitors to the Gwynedd Pavilion will be invited to add their own touches to the box.

There will also be a video displaying of the current work on show now in Oriel Dafydd Hardy until August and other Bocs artwork and events.

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MEAT, SKIN AND FEET
Exhibition by
GETHIN WAVELL
Opening Night
Thurs
April
7-9pm
Then open to the public
April 2009
ORIEL DAFYDD HARDY
Y Maes, Caernarfon.

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Finally!

Although this was certainly not our first exhibition, this was the first one where we collated work from bocs members.

Hugh Edwin Jones, (Creative Enterprises Officer from Gwynedd Council) was kind enough to open the show for us with some inspirational words.

We had a strong show, curated by bocs member Sevan Garo Nigogosian, that exemplifies the diversity of styles, talents and interests of some of bocs’ members:

• Iestyn Owen
  Achlysuron Hapus/Happy Occurrences, 2009 - £110
  Digwyddiad Od/Strange Happenings, 2009 - £110
• Sevan Garo Nigogosian
  Ionawr tan chwefror / January till February - £800
  Dal mewn haniaeth 1 / Caught up in abstract 1 - £900
  Dal mewn haniaeth 2 / Caught up in abstract 2 - £900
• Meirion Ginsberg
  Dol 1 - £1250
  Dol 2 - £1250
  Smyg - £1400
  O.D - £1400
• Charles Yorke
  Di-deitl 1/Untitled 1 - £60
  Di-deitl 2/Untitled 2 - £60
  Di-deitl 3/Untitled 3 - £50
• Gethin Wavell
  Pen 1/Head 1 - £100
  Pen 2/Head 2 - £75
  Pen 3/Head 3 - £50
  Chwadan/Duck - £75
• Huw Erddyn
  O’r Antelope i’r Anglesey 1/From the Antelope to the Anglesey 1 - £200
  O’r Antelope i’r Anglesey 2/From the Antelope to the Anglesey2 - £200
  O’r Antelope i’r Anglesey 3/From the Antelope to the Anglesey3 - £200
  O’r Antelope i’r Anglesey 4/From the Antelope to the Anglesey4 - £200
• James Toms
  Di-deitl 1/Untitled 1 - £200
  Di-deitl 2/Untitled 2 - £200

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