Found Gallery, Brecon 2022
Seventeen new paintings at Found Gallery
Celebration of Contemporary Welsh Painting
Video of exhibition on lower floor gallery at Found Gallery, 1 Bulwark, Brecon, LD3 7LB
The Alternative Commute
Maggie James seventeen new paintings at Found Gallery relate to a 3km bike ride, from a house in North East Cardiff to a studio in the South of the city. The route is calm, with an energy and dynamic unlike other ways through the city. Delicate ecosystems thrive along the pathways, creating an almost continuous green trail. Everything is in flux - the light, the wind, the mood of the day, the temperament of the people you pass, the background sounds of the city… and this changes the feeling and mood of the journey. Most days the river is muddy with a sombre green reflection, but this can change to a mirror reflection of animators blue sky.
The paintings have a sequential element with different combinations of vegetation and buildings. They are a mapping of sorts, initially linked to a collaboration with Eu Jin Lim, an architect based in Kuala Lumpur, as part of Open BooksOnline in 2021, when the series took the form of 10 large 1.5metre drawings and a folding book. When this series started main roads were deserted, streets were empty, people kept a huge distance between each other, ghost buses kept running.
Alongside this work, a series of smaller, earlier paintings echo the atmosphere.
View my paintings on show at Found 14 September - 15 October 2022
Works from our studios
selected works from studio holders, who have studios above BayArt, Cardiff
Butetown Artists Exhibition 2022
Group exhibition at BayArt, 54b/c Bute St, Cardiff, CF10 5AF
LLE / BAYART
SHOW 3 – BUTETOWN ARTISTS STUDIO HOLDERS
A pop up show of selected works from studio holders, who have studios above BayArt, Cardiff.
Dave Brook, Valerie Coffin Price, Richard Cox, Carwyn Evans, Anne Giles Hobbs, Dave Gould, Carol Hiles, Mary Husted, Dilys Jackson, Maggie James, Philip Nicol, Casper White, William Roberts, Terry Setch, Emrys Williams, Sue Williams
Opening Friday 10th June 6-9pm
Open Saturday 11th June 11am-5pm
Thinking About Giacomettis Walking Man
Welsh Contemporary Painting
a pan Wales show of contemporary painting
Celebration of Welsh Contemporary Painting
Information about an upcoming series of exhibitions in South and West Wales
‘July 2022 will see the start of the third Biennial series of Welsh Contemporary Painting Exhibitions across South, Mid and West Wales incorporating eleven venues with four in Brecon and one in Glasbury. The exhibitions will showcase over one hundred Welsh contemporary painters.
As a ‘taster’ of what is to come, an online exhibition has exhibits from eight of the galleries including, Ardent gallery in Brecon, Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Gallery, Craft in the Bay, Cardiff, Found Gallery, Brecon, and Glasbury Arts in Glasbury, Oriel Park Gallery St David’s, Pembrokeshire College Art Department, Haverfordwest and Tenby Museum and Art Gallery Tenby.’
To view the exhibition and buy work online, please go to the Celebration of Welsh Contemporary Painting website: https://cowcp.co.uk and follow the directions on the home page.
My work is shown by Found Gallery, Brecon
No. 15 Dream. oil on board 30 x 30cm
Thoughts on Paper
Thoughts on Paper
Group exhibition at Oriel Y Bont, University of South Wales, Treforest Campus, Llantwit Rd, Pontypridd, CF37 IDL
Artists from Wales explore the versatile possibilities of working with and on paper. The exhibition takes place at Oriel y Bont, University of South Wales.
Artists: Adéọlá Dewis, Penny Hallas, Richard Higlett, Sue Hunt, Maggie James, Kieran Lyons, Thomas Martin, Phil Nicol, Chris Nurse, Heather Parnell, Alan Salisbury, Stephanie Tuckwell, Tessa Waite, Frances Woodley together with responses from creative writers Maria Donovan, Judith Goldsmith, Sarah Klenbort, Kate Noakes, Shauna Gilligan, Malcolm Lewis, Samuel Mark Sargeant, Georgia Bolton, and Donna-Louise Bishop.
17.1.2022 - 11.3.2022 Oriel y Bont, University of South Wales
Works by Maggie James, Tom Martin, Adéọlá Dewis and Kieran Lyons
Open Books Online
During the 2021 Covid 19 restrictions, 14 visual artists from Wales, Malaysia, India and China worked in pairs, to produce digital artworks inspired by the Chinese folding book.
The collaboration produced seven digital works, which will be on show at TheGoDown, accompanied by an exhibition of 50 concertina folding books made by artists from Wales, China, Australia, Canada, USA and India.
The lightweight, portable, folding book links artists from different cultures and traditions. ‘We are living in difficult times where COVID has caused separation but with a creative spirit we can find ways to share our knowledge as practicing artists and what better way than to collaborate with a Malay artist and orchestrate a digital response to our new connection.’ Sue Williams
OpenBooks is a Welsh initiative launched in Wales in 2012, developed in 2013 through a collaboration with China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. The new collaboration with The GoDown begins to discover the digital possibilities of Open Books.
Curated by Lienne Loy
For more information read this article from The Vibes
10.12.2021 - 16.1.2022 The Godown, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
150 x 100cm Pencil and pastel on paper No.7 in a series of 10 drawings
A still from the video made by Eu Jin Lim & SK Lim