Exhibitions @St_Elvans
Each month St Elvan's hosts 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
Further information on our current, forthcoming and recent exhibitions are available below
Platinum Jubilee
Royalty in RCT & The Metalwork Sculptures of Barry Lewis
Our Platinum Jubilee exhibition runs from May 9th to June 10th and is multifaceted in content. The first element features digital historical images of Royal visits to Rhondda Cynon Taf, scrolling beneath aural recollections of those visits by local residents. The exhibition also features models of the Crowns of the Commonwealth, created by Town Church Primary School, while finally, reflecting the "platinum" aspect of the Jubilee, the exhibition features the truly incredible metalwork sculptures of Rhondda sculptor Barry Lewis
Previous Exhibitions
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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