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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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Oriel Dafydd Hardy is currently closed after November flood….reopening very soon…..watch this space!

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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