Exhibitions @St_Elvans
St Elvan's continually hosts rotating guest exhibitions in our beautiful new mezzanine gallery area
All exhibitions are FREE to view and are available to browse Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 16:00
Each month we also present our monthly WAM (Words - Art - Music) Night in the Gallery, which frequently ties in with our visiting exhibitions. For further information on the WAM Nights, visit www.stelvans.com/wam-words-art-music
Further information on our current, forthcoming and recent exhibitions are available below
All exhibitions are FREE to view and are available to browse Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 16:00
Each month we also present our monthly WAM (Words - Art - Music) Night in the Gallery, which frequently ties in with our visiting exhibitions. For further information on the WAM Nights, visit www.stelvans.com/wam-words-art-music
Further information on our current, forthcoming and recent exhibitions are available below
Forthcoming Exhibitions
January 25th to March 2nd
The Blue Wedding Dress
St Fagans National Museum of History
St Elvan's is fortunate to host - for the first time ever on public display - a beautiful blue Victorian wedding dress, which was made in 1875 for a wedding at St Elvan's
The dress is on temporary loan - for a limited period only - from St Fagan's National Museum of History
Inspired by Renoir's famous "La Parisienne", the dress will be on public display here at St Elvan's from Monday January 30th to Thursday March 2nd
February 25th to March 10th
Inspirations from The Blue Wedding Dress
Coleg Y Cymoedd
March 10th to April 29th
Welsh & Aberdare Icons
Barry Lewis | The Cenotaph | E. Thomas & Williams | William Haggar
May 1st to June 9th
Not Necessarily Sew
Textiles Exhibition
June 12th to July 28th
Caradogfest
E. Thomas & Williams, Aberdare | Nick Evans, Mining Paintings
August 4th to September 22nd
Prismatic Art
Deanne Mangold
September 25th to October 27th
Literature & Film Pioneers
William Morgan | William Haggar
October 30th to November 17th
Remembrance
November 27th to December 23rd
Christmas | Santa's Grotto
2022
November | December
Remembrance | Christmas
Throughout November | December each year, St Elvan's plays host to a series of Remembrance and Christmas events, for which the exhibition series on our Mezzanine level is temporarily suspended. Exhibitions resume from January onwards. Please watch this space for updates
October
Cynon Valley Film Festival
An exhibition of period film posters connecting to the inaugural Cynon Valley Film Festival, being hosted at St Elvan's this October.
The exhibition ia available to view FREE throughout October, Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 16:00
The exhibition ia available to view FREE throughout October, Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 16:00
September
Cynon Valley Community Showcase
Enjoy the award-winning and most highly commended exhibits from the recent Cynon Valley Community Show, exhibited here at St Elvan's throughout the month of September. Exhibits include high level pieces from talented community artists of all ages from both within the locality and beyond. Available to view FREE throughout September, Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 16:00
Previous Exhibitions
July | August
"Here Be Dragons"
Marking the 150th anniversary of the achievements of Griffith Rhys "Caradog" Jones and the Aberdare centred Côr Mawr, St Elvan's proudly presents our summer 2022 collaborative exhibition featuring the large scale dragon images of Linda Agostini, the community dragon art of Artsy Community, Kevin Broome and Christina Davies; plus the largest metal sculpture of the incredible Barry Lewis - a giant 4.5 x 3m Welsh dragon!
The exhibition runs throughout July | August and is available to view FREE Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 16:00
For further information on Griffith Rhys "Caradog" Jones, the Côr Mawr and the wider Caradogfest, visit www.caradogfest.com
The exhibition runs throughout July | August and is available to view FREE Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 16:00
For further information on Griffith Rhys "Caradog" Jones, the Côr Mawr and the wider Caradogfest, visit www.caradogfest.com
May | June
"Platinum" Jubilee
Royalty in RCT & The Metalwork Sculptures of Barry Lewis
Our Platinum Jubilee exhibition ran from May 9th to June 10th and is multifaceted in content. The first element featured digital historical images of Royal visits to Rhondda Cynon Taf, scrolling beneath aural recollections of those visits by local residents. The exhibition also featured models of the Crowns of the Commonwealth, created by Town Church Primary School, and finally, reflecting the "platinum" aspect of the Jubilee, the exhibition also featured the truly incredible metalwork sculptures of Rhondda sculptor Barry Lewis. Such was the popularity of Barry's works that many of these pieces remain with us and are available to view and purchase exclusively at St Elvan's
The Watchman's Hut
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Not Necessarily SewNot Necessarily Sew, is a Welsh Textile group based at Fleur de Lys in the Rhymney valley The group was formed in 2010 after collectively completing a City and Guilds course in creative embroidery. Creatively, the group are all multi-disciplined and their work often combines drawing with fibres, wire, paper, plastics, alongside fabric decoration such as dyeing and printing Their skill is to create original pieces with machined stitches and traditional hand embroidery methods which challenge the old view of needlecraft as a ‘repetitive exercise to fill in time’ and transforms it into new exciting Textile Art This incredibly popular exhibition of Not Necessarily Sew was also the first central art focus of our monthly WAM (Words • Art • Music) Night at St Elvan's Held on the third Thursday of each month, further information on the WAM Nights is available at www.stelvans.com/wam-words-art-music |
By Our Hands - Judith Beecher
"By Our Hands" was the incredible opening exhibition at St Elvan's, and was curated by Aberdare artist Judith Beecher "The exhibition represented a collaboration, bringing several artists working in Wales together through a concept of autonomy with the portrait and framework Each of the portraits are framed by the artist depicted; Beecher painted the portrait of each artist, and they, in turn, have painted, written, collaged, or pyrographed the frame in their own way; thus, artists have worked in a partnership which is rarely seen Alongside each portrait was also one or more pieces of work by the artists depicted. The artists were very well known throughout Wales and many of them worldwide" Judith Beecher, BA (Hons) |
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