bocs

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

Bocs presents the inaugural exhibition of members work. Opening Friday 6th March at 7pm, this exhibition kicks off the start of Caernarfon on Fire celebrating the Celtic Media Festival here in Caernarfon during 25th, 26th & 27th March 2009 on its 30th anniversary.

To welcome our Celtic brothers and sisters ( there will be 350 delegates & 100 students attending) Caernarfon has arranged a special evening of activities, called ‘Caernarfon On Fire’ on the Castle Square on Thursday 26th March 2009.

The evening will be begin at 6pm (till 8pm) in Oriel Dafydd Hardy with an Exhibition & Musical Happening by bocs members.

The members’ exhibition will actually have two celebrations – first, before the Celtic Media Festival arrives there will be a Private Viewing on March 6th 7-9pm, then the Musical Happening on Thursday 26th between 6-8pm

bocs is also organising a Clic Caernarfon -Photographic Exploration. This competition is open to members of the public and to school and college students. Here’s how it works:

1) Find some Friends! - Grab your mates and form a team of up to 4 people.
2) Turn up! - Come along -with your own camera or cameraphone- to Oriel
Dafydd Hardy, Castle Square, 10am 26th March 2009 for an informal talk and pick up a list of themes.
3) Explore! - Explore Caernarfon. Take photographs. have fun. Then upload your work by 6pm or hand in a CD to Oriel Dafydd Hardy by 5pm.
4) Win & Watch! - See our choice of your best work on the amazing 80 seater Screen Machine on the Maes on Friday 27th March 2009.

This is a unique opportunity for local young people to become personally involved this exciting event in our town - through using their talent & imagination to show Caernarfon from a different angle - then showing their work on the Screen Machine on the Maes.

Article in the Caernarfon and Denbighshire Herald on December 4, 2008 about bocs and the christmas bocs nadolig exhibition :

YOUNG artists received their perfect Christmas present this week.

For the latest exhibition at Oriel Dafydd Hardy, in Caernarfon, members of bocs, a co-operative of young local artists, drew up a wish list of art they would like to see on display.

The work ranges from artists they have studied alongside, lecturers who taught them, people whose work they have admired or even read about.

The collection opens on Saturday and will run until January 9.

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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.

Private View
8th August 7-9.00-PM

Open to Public 9 – 30th August 2008
(Monday- Saturday 10am-4pm)

Originating from Cornwall, my work is concerned with ideas of narrative and identity within set up and studio photography. I work with myself as the singular model for the creation of characters and alternate personae in surreal, often heavily saturated, realities with ambiguous and fragmented narratives. Working with digital photo manipulation techniques to create realistic images of the impossible, I multiply myself within the frame in the form of different characters. These may be pictures of myself, but they are most certainly not self-portraits. I work to create layers of staged realities that are at times highly theatrical and that spring forth from a wide range of inspiration, from classical painting to contemporary cinema.

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