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Helfa Gelf: Open Doors/Drysau ar Agor

mike — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 12:46:29 +0000

After a string of International Exhibitions Undegun is turning the spotlight on North Wales’ home-grown talent, as part of a unique project with Helfa Gelf. The month long celebration of Welsh Art invites the public not only to come along and see the work of our most creative residents at the gallery but also to take a tour across the region to see where the artists live and work.

This September Undegun will be showcasing work from a large group of artists taking part in Wales’ biggest Open Studios art trail, Helfa Gelf 2015. Now in its 10th year, this free annual event is spread right across North Wales with studios taking part in Gwynedd, Conwy, Flintshire, Denbighshire and Wrexham. It presents a unique chance for visitors to peek behind the scenes, experience this normally hidden world and get to chat to the artists and crafts people about their creative process and their studio spaces. Helfa Gelf mentions:
“We think North Wales is an overlooked gem for the visual arts and crafts in Wales, with loads of artists and makers beavering away up mountain tracks and sea-side cul-de-sacs.”

Like THIS Project who run the gallery, Helfa Gelf aims to encourage engagement & collaboration and break down barriers between artists and the public. This is the third consecutive year the two organisations have collaborated on an exhibition at Undegun.
‘Open Doors’ brings together over 30 artists and begins with a public launch on Saturday the 5th September at 7pm. The Exhibition will be on display until the 26th September. During their time at Undegun the exhibiting artists will be using the art space to create new work live in front of the public, with opportunities for everyone to get involved in workshop activities and learn new skills.

During its time at Undegun the exhibition will feature a number of free workshops and talks, which are open to all abilities.
On the 25th September artist Graham Mitchell and Ros Hornbuckle will be demonstrating their skills of tapestry weaving and jewellery making out of wood at Undegun from 11 to 4pm. All are welcome to come down to the venue and discuss with the artists more about their disciplines and how they find the creative scene within the North of Wales
You will receive a warm welcome from the artists wherever they are, and will join the ever-growing number of art enthusiasts who enjoy this yearly event – and remember, it’s all free.

Helfa Gelf /Art Trail runs every Friday, Saturday and Sunday in September in Gwynedd, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham. Studios are open from 11am-5pm daily.

For the ‘Open Doors’ exhibition Undegun is open to the public from 12 – 4 on Wednesdays and 11 – 4 on Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays.

If you have any interest in become a part of Helfa Gelf please feel free to visit http://www.helfagelf.co.uk/en/contact/ or any questions about Undegun please feel free to send an email to contact@thisproject.co.uk

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Wrexfest & Reimagine Wrecsam

mike — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 14:20:04 +0000

Wrexfest is back for the 3rd year running

Organised by Change Wrexham For Our Future, Wrexfest is a two-day music and arts community event beginning on Friday 31st, at various locations across the town centre. Covering two days there will be a wealth of performances at Rewind, Royal Oak, Saith Seren including extra stalls, workshops & activity at Llwyn Isaf and Undegun, all supported by the Arts Council of Wales.

Things get underway this Saturday July 25th at Undegun. THIS Project, working with Mikey Jones (www.mikeyjonesart.com), present Re-imagine Wrexham 2.0.

Contributing to the festival landscape local artist Mikey Jones has created a large skyline of the town, ready for local artists and the public to come and paint, draw, collage and reflect on. Come down on the Saturday from 2PM to get involved and be creative! All welcome and the event is free.

Drum With Our Hands’ very own Andy Garside will be DJing during the event with help from a very special guest. (Nice job on the posters too! see below..)

After the launch on Saturday afternoon the event will continue to transform throughout the week, until 1st August, with contributions from a variety of local artists.

From 8pm on Thursday 30th July the performances begin at the Royal Oak, High Street, Wrexham with two nights of acoustic music curated by Cygnini music.

On Friday Undegun welcome back WE//ARE//ANIMAL after a short hiatus for a special show ahead of releasing their debut album this Summer. Support comes from Rich List, Pink Killer, Jack of the Suburbs, Blood Lips and Future Exits.

Continuing on Saturday Undegun will host Hidden Charms, Baby Brave, I Am Of The Universe, Bandito Rey and Cy Humphries while Pobl Y Bryn grace the stage at Saith Seren with support from the Mexican Walking Fish, The Jackobins, The Undivided and Memory Clinic.

For more information you can find the group at facebook.com/ChangeWrexhamForOurFuture

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COLLABORATE!

mike — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 12:03:07 +0000

The Art World Comes To Wrexham

A group of major International artists will be making their way to Wrexham as part of the diverse and explosive “Collaborate!” exhibition, and this will be the first time much of the work has been shown outside of major international galleries, like New York’s Museum of Modern Art or The Tate.

“Collaborate” is the brainchild of artists Ivan Liotchev and Nicholas John Jones. They will be working with Glyndwr’s Oriel Sycharth Gallery and Wrexham’s innovative arts organisation THIS Project, who opened the former JJB store at 11 Regent Street, as Undegun Artspace in July 2013. The ground-breaking exhibition has been put together to showcase the talents of major international artists at venues across Wrexham, while demonstrating how groups of artists and institutions can work together to produce incredible results.

The exhibition is being previewed, on Wednesday, 22nd April, as part of the FOCUS Wales Music Festival, which itself brings acts from all over the world, and is just one other example of how Wrexham is increasingly being recognised as a destination for international talent.

The contemporary exhibition will feature artworks and performances that use the full spectrum of the tools available in the world today – from the paints and canvasses traditionally associated with artists, all the way through to Skype. Some of the work will be controversial, but all of it will be the best examples from highly respected art world figures.

Dave Gray of THIS Project, “A lot of institutional local galleries are nervous about showing artwork of this nature, because often it can be challenging and deals with uncomfortable issues. Since opening Undegun in 2013 though, we’ve found Wrexham people have a huge appetite for art, and enjoy the opportunity to see exciting new work in their own town rather than having to visit London or other major cities around the world to enjoy it. “Collaborate!” has been a fantastic opportunity to ensure we can get some of the best contemporary work from across the globe right here in our own town.”

Events to note:
Preview @ FOCUS Wales, Galeri 3B from 6pm, Wednesday 22nd April 2015 featuring London based Biters, and Ann Liv Young (broadcast live from New York City)

Launch Event @ Oriel Sycharth, 6pm to 8pm, Thursday 23rd April 2015

Artists exhibited:
Jeremy Bailey with Kristin Schaffer, Biters, Cornford & Cross, Judy Chicago, Phoebe Davis, Bernard Frize, Jesse Greenberg, Jeremy Hutchison, Helen Knowles, Ivan Liotchev, London Brain Project, Lorna Mills, Dylan Miner, Sarah Pettitt & Robert Rivers, Jonathan Powell & nu-Sangha, Kezia Pritchard & Kristofer Henriksson, Nina Rodin & Rebecca Molloy, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Nastja Ronnko, Jesse Stead & Raphael Lyon, Ryan Trecartin, Weast, Ann Liv Young.

COLLABORATE! is a survey of recent collaborative art practice. Involving 23 international artists / collaborative teams, whose work spans across media ranging from painting to Skype, the exhibition urges us to consider the wide array of forms, approaches, and results of collaboration.

The central exhibition at Oriel Sycharth Gallery is presented as part of a wider programme of exhibitions, screenings and performances, in partnership with THIS Project and Focus Wales. Additional venues include THIS Project’s Undegun and Galeri 3B, and select screenings will be dispersed throughout Focus Wales events.

In exploring the nature of collaboration, COLLABORATE! presents a broad variety of practices including artists who only work collaboratively, occasional collaborators, and artists who direct temporary participants or orchestrate situations. Exhibitors range in nationality and career-stage and practices presented vary from early feminism and 80s painting revival, to jazz, indigenous and post-internet art.

Why do artists choose to co-create? On first thought, the merits of co-operation seem obvious and often denote harmony. We see artists like Phoebe Davis working with members of a care home as an act of empowerment. Cornford & Cross have an established practice based on mutual trust and co-operation. But are these, and other collaborative acts always symbiotic? Ryan Trecartin confronts us with post-digital discord, Jeremy Hutchison orders foreign factory workers to manufacture deliberately defective products, Ann Liv Young both compliments and insults us, Ivan Liotchev enlists hundreds of random participants in the often chaotic creation of his giant canvases, Tim Rollins and Judy Chicago urge sidelined youths and needle-workers, respectively, to raise their ambitions to High-art prominence.

Are collaborative strategies mutually beneficial to artist and collaborator, or are there underlying power structures at play that verge on exploitation? Can exploitation ever be beneficial and is it even collaboration? Where does ownership lie, when often the resulting works are only credited to a single artist? What are the boundaries between collaboration, participation, orchestration and instigation? Can collaboration break these boundaries and de-centralise authority? Is it a push towards more equality and empowerment or do familiar power-structures remain?

The points of conflict in this exhibition, both between the collaborators themselves and ideological questions raised, hopefully serve as means to a positive end. The tension built through collaboration may or may not resolve, but it always aims to stretch our spiritual sphere.

The social strive of the exhibition stems from the networked nature of collaboration itself, displaying how snippets of individual ideas, behaviours, relationships, thoughts, patterns and visions can inform a cohesive reality. Reflecting our hyper-connected society, the exhibition, and extended partnership that supports it, can be seen as a sketch for a more united and harmonious future.

Most artists in this exhibition have shown internationally, but never in Wales before. COLLABORATE! brings for the first time to Wales the groundbreaking participatory works of Tim Rollins and K.O.S. as well as Judy Chicago’s seminal Birth Project. Other artists showing in Wales for the first time include performance artist Ann Liv Young, Métis artist Dylan Miner, and Japanese duo WEAST.

A special feature of the exhibition will be the first ever presentation in Wales of Ryan Trecartin’s ambitious 3-channel movie Comma Boat. A unique vision of dictatorship, yet emblematic of Trecartin’s hyper-collaborative style, the large-scale installation will be presented at Undegun in Wrexham city centre.

COLLABORATE! will host a pre-launch event as part of Focus Wales on 22 April, 6-8pm at Galeri 3B, which will include live performances by London-based duo Biters and New York City-based Ann Liv Young.

The main exhibition launch at Oriel Sycharth Gallery will be on 23 April, 6-8pm, and will feature a live, multi-actor performance directed by Helen Knowles. A post-event reception with performances will follow at Undegun from 8pm onwards. As part of Focus Wales’s regular programme, the post-event is ticketed, but visitors to the opening at Oriel Sycharth will receive free passes to a special VIP zone.

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Kim Disley – Weave the Word

mike — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:32:51 +0000

Having realised that the origin of ‘Text’ comes from the Latin ‘textere’ meaning ‘to weave’, Kim Disley has taken to translating written texts into visual embroideries and patterns and her current work takes inspiration from the Celtic Tales and Myths from ‘The Mabinogi’. Some of these embroideries will be exhibited at Undegun from March 1st until April 4th.

Textile items are subtly embroidered; this hand work belies the length of time taken to produce a finished piece of work. Kim is currently fascinated by cross-stitch which is simple and ordered – exactly what she feels ‘good design’ has to be. “It also needs to be mathematical; this gives an invisible structure and guideline which is immediately noticeable when something is ‘just not quite right’. I began to use textiles as a medium after working with glass at Wrexham School of Art and Design; embroidered and knitted items mingle with the glasswork.”

Repetition is also extremely important, the same image is used constantly; by altering it with different colour combinations or by mirror imaging, many different designs appear. The repeated image in rows and columns has a correctness and precision.

Kim Disley is ultimately influenced by the clean, straight lines and classic timelessness of the Bauhaus; this simplicity is a template on which most designs are based. Lino cuts by Cyril E. Powers and Sybil Andrews from the early 20th Century, which have the simple repetition and orderliness, are also an influence.

you can find Kim Disley on twitter, @kimally or on instagram, @kimdisley

Weave The Word will be exhibited alongside Wales In Colour and Twisted Showcase Live

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The Tales We Tell

mike — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 12:48:12 +0000

Stories surround us, from the mythic to the minute, the personal to the universal, the secret to the outspoken. The Tales We Tell revolves around the broad concept of tales told and re-told, altered, translated, re-interpreted, critiqued, and celebrated.

Involving art, video installation, workshops, poetry, guest talks, and multi-media, this is an assemblage of creativity based around the premise of storytelling in various artistic mediums; these form the basis of The Tales We Tell.

The month long event, curated by Stephen C. Kenyon Owen, is a mix of ‘in-situ’ art, video installations, workshops, music, and invited talks in collaboration with THIS Project.

The opening event, on the 30th of January at Undegun will feature poetry and music from Sophie McKeand and Andy Hickie respectively. This will be the first chance to see the artwork from a diverse mix of artists; Jacqueline Alkema; Richard Geraghty; Penny Hallas; Hilary Langston; Jonathan Powell; Amy Sterly.

Penny Hallas presents Orpheus, a collection of 40 drawings and Beyond Orpheus, a triptych film and sound installation with accompanying drawings. Together the body of work shown here on level 1 and level 2 gathers together various contributions to an open ended and ongoing project centred on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.

Jacqueline Alkema has displayed in numerous public collections such as the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff County Council and The Arts Council of Strasbourg. At Undegun Alkema presents paintings based upon Dutch proverbs.
Jacqueline Alkema was born in 1948 in Kropswolde, the Netherlands and studied in Cardiff College of Art and Design, with a BA Hons in Fine Art in 1988. Her works have been displayed in numerous public collections such as the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff County Council and The Arts Council of Strasbourg, with private collections being held in Wales, England, France, Germany and Holland

Richard Geraghty presents Stories on the Road, a photo series and short film about walking the ‘Camino de Santiago’, for 900km across northern Spain. Richard will provide a visual sense of what it’s like walking the Camino and also an insight into the people who walk it and why.

Jonathan Powell runs the Beep: Wales International Painting Prize and is co-founder of Portfolio Wales. For Tales We Tell he presents large format paintings that incorporate ideas of shelter and utopia.

Amy Sterly is exhibiting woodcuts which attempt to reposition landscapes and architectures, popular culture and everyday sights – entry points that highlight the mutability of interpretation and meaning.

Hilary Morgan Langston has created work in cloth that depicts the experience of loss, grief and acceptance for the relatives of an Alzheimer’s patient. The practise attempts to embody both the emotion of the actuality of loss, memory loss and the associated difficulties of retrieval through the metaphor of the journey and the map.

All work from these artists will be on display throughout the month and will feature in the opening & closing events.

Throughout February Undegun and Glyndwr will host activity that relates to Tales We Tell.

On Thursday 12th Feb at 1pm and 7.00pm Suzanne Iuppa will be presenting an image and spoken word performance. Suzanne Iuppa is a poet, community worker and filmmaker who lives and writes in North Wales. She has worked previously as a countryside ranger in the Clwydian Mountains.

Workshops

• Thursday 5th February, 7-9pm at Un Deg Un.
Poetry workshop – Hanes: writing the mythical, with Sophie McKeand

• Friday 20th February, 12-4pm at Un Deg Un.
Comic Book Workshop – Drawing Stories with Heather Wilson

Guest Talks

• Thursday 19th February, 6-9pm at Glyndwr University, Catrin Finch Centre.

6.30pm – Dr Sarah Gilligan
From Katniss Everdeen’s chunky hand-knitted sweater vest, to Effie Trinket’s outrageous couture dresses and designer shoes, fashion plays a key role in constructing and performing on-screen identities in the Hunger Games films. In this talk, Sarah Gilligan discusses the ways in which the seductive spectacle of high-end designer fashion is used both on and off-screen to lure audiences into desiring and consuming a range of branded goods.

7.30pm – Mike Corcoran & Jake Campbell
This presentation looks to explore these questions through science, philosophy, poetry, and the visual arts, in an ekphrastic collaboration bringing together poet Jake Campbell, and visual artist Mike Corcoran. The collaboration was born out a shared interest in the stories with which we are raised, the environments which provide the settings, and how these stories and settings form an inextricable part of the people we become. They believe the individual, their surroundings and the stories associated with these surroundings are interconnected: one cannot be fully understood, without reference to the other two

• Thursday 26th February, 6-8pm at Un Deg Un.
Dr Deniz Baker & Andrew Edwards.

Dr Deniz Baker – David Jones, Intertextuality as Redemption in ‘In Parenthesis’ (1937).
Deniz Baker is from Yorkshire and completed her PhD at York University. She has worked at Glyndwr University for over 20 years and although her academic roots are in literary modernism she has developed and taught courses in film, visual culture, gender, and writing from many different times and places.

Andrew Edwards – Intertextuality in the work of Alan Moore

Andrew explores how, and to what effect, Moore engages with pre-existing texts (including comics and other media e.g. novels) by other writers, artists and creators in the creation of his own graphic novel and comic book work.

Friday 27th February, 7pm-8pm at Glyndwr University, Nick Whitehead Theatre.
Beer Mat to Big Screen – Thomas Llywarch
North Wales based film producer and creative industries lecturer Thomas Llywarch will take you on an autobiographical tour of his short film production ‘Split Second’ – a modern day adaptation of the classic Welsh Story ‘Gelert The Dog’.

The 1 hour seminar will include the UK premiere of ‘Split Second’ and a behind the scenes look into the film’s production, from the initial conception on the back of a beer mat to the current screening at an international arts festival.

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THIS Gig – Ben Barlow, Highlives & Doppelganger

Kirsty — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 14:11:12 +0000

THIS GIG is a volunteer-led event supported by THIS Project. As volunteers Kieran Brough, Hari McDermott and Luciano Morris help with day to day duties around the Undegun and Galeri 3B, which include helping with music events, setting up exhibitions and invigilating. The relationship has developed over the year and the volunteers are now embracing the opportunity to run their own music event.

The idea behind THIS GIG is to bring people musical entertainment and incorporate everyone in the community to get involved! Our aims are to get bands from all around the country to travel to Wrexham and create a fun and vibrant atmosphere. The bands we have playing are very well known and are great guys. Doppelganger and Neck Deep’s own Ben Barlow are both from the Wrexham area. We also have special guests from Bristol, Highlives.
Doppelganger are an alternative rock band, Ben Barlow is going to be playing an acoustic set for the night, and Highlives are popular for their Pop Punk sound. The night is going to be a mixture of amazing bands, we hope the people who are coming will enjoy themselves and leave with some new favourites in there music.

The event will be taking place on the 27th September 2014, at Undegun in the centre of Wrexham. Doors will be opening from 7:30pm and bands will be starting at 8:00pm. We currently have 50 tickets for advance which are available on our Facebook page to reserve: www.facebook.com/THISGig but you will be able to pay on the door. Due to the venues capacity please arrive early for better chance of entry. This event is a 14+ entry unless accompanied by an adult. We look forward to the event and seeing lots of new faces to Undegun.

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Simon Proffitt : Something Happened

mike — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 12:57:51 +0000

Simon Proffitt : Something Happened
11/09/2014 – 04/10/2014

The third and final Oriel Wrecsam offsite exhibition in the current season is about to open at Undegun. The series of exhibitions, presented in a vast dark space previously used as a store room in the former sports store, has included Stefan Gant’s exploration of Tug of War, and Ronan Devlin’s interactive projection. The latest exhibition, which opens this week, is Simon Proffitt: Something Happened. Steffan Jones-Hughes, Arts Manager Wrexham County Borough Council, has curated the programme, which explores notions of Wrexham and the previous use of the space.

“The exhibitions have looked at ideas relating to Wrexham’s position as a border town, but also each artist has responded to the space in their own way. Simon’s exhibition looks at references to sport, music, playfulness as well as referring to the previous exhibitions in the series. He has transformed the space into a galaxy of playfulness and contemplation. There are ping pong balls, mirror balls and a zither!”

Something Happened is the latest manifestation of Simon’s long-term interests in using familiar objects to both create and attempt to control chaotic systems, and taking things out of their usual habitat and putting them where they don’t belong.

Despite using very simple starting conditions with few components, and despite operating within a predictable framework, it is fundamentally impossible to predict exactly what will happen next in each of the pieces within the work at any given time. References are made to sporting rivalries, ancient Japanese court music, planetary systems and discotheques.

The main feature of the exhibition recalls the space’s former use as a sports shop retail warehouse, re-imagining it as the ultimate party venue.

Simon Proffitt [b. 1975, Nottinghamshire] is a multi-disciplinary artist pursuing a range of seemingly unrelated threads in a range of media, some of which arise from observation and response, others of which don’t. He has been based in north Wales since 2007.

After a short career in research science / technology based R&D, during which he investigated the chemical physics of artificial diamond surfaces and worked towards developing what was to become the Blu-ray disc format, he became a self-taught graphic designer. Working more creatively and freely allowed him to more fully develop his ongoing interest in audio and visual art. Although different in application, the three areas of science, design and art are ultimately three different approaches to problem-solving, and have much in common.

Themes that often emerge in Proffitt’s work include personal identity, belonging, landscape / environment / geography, symmetry, context, play, leftovers / by-products / incidentals, absence, abandonment, repetition and attempted repetition, chaos, constraint, celebration of the mundane, redundancy, reuse / recycling / remixing, inefficiency, visual incongruence, factual inaccuracies, nomenclature and pointlessness. Other themes will likely emerge in future in response to new situations.

www.simonproffitt.com

Undegun
11 Regent Street
Wrexham
LL1 1SG
Thu/Fri/Sat 12-4pm

Oriel Wrecsam will present a conversation with the artist on Thursday 2nd October @ 11 am. For more details please contact Oriel Wrecsam – Oriel.Wrecsam@wrexham.gov.uk / 01978292093

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An exhibition of Helfa Gelf artists

mike — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 15:49:47 +0000

The biggest open studios event in Wales begins on Friday the 5th September with the launch of the Helfa Gelf Art Trail 2014, where 184 studios and pop-up galleries throw open their door to welcome visitors across the counties of Gwynedd, Conwy, Flintshire, Denbighshire and Wrexham.

Friday the 5th September also sees the launch of Undegun’s newest exhibition featuring a diverse mix of painting, photography, print, sculpture and applied artwork from some of the 300 artists involved in this years event. We will also play host to performances from some of the areas finest acoustic performers. This diverse show conveys a sense of the range of work participating artists offer visitors to the event. The exhibitions runs from the 5th September to the 27 September, with a preview on the evening of the 5th from 7-9pm, that all are welcome to attend. The Glyndwr Collective are taking part again this year, based at the North Wales School of Art & Design further up Regent Street and will be launching thier show on the same night from 5 – 7 pm too. The Regional Print Centre is taking part too, opening its doors on Saturday 6th and 20th September 2014 between 11am and 5pm

There is a link to the facebook event page HERE

Sarah-Jane Harper

There are 12 Helfa Gelf Art Trail days on every Friday, Saturday and Sunday during September. Studios and galleries are open from 11am–5pm and it’s FREE to visit. Studio spaces take every conceivable form: from disused shops to garden sheds and barns, from spaces in cafes to artists’ front rooms. This event offers an insight into this normally hidden world and allows the public to meet the artists and talk about how they create their work.

With more and more galleries and craft shop springing up across North Wales, this event offers the public the chance to meet the artists creating work in studios and workshops across the region. It is a way for the artists to step out of the shadows and take centre stage.

Sabine Cockrill, project co-ordinator for the Helfa Gelf Art Trail, says: “This is our ninth year and it is the biggest event we have ever held. There are over 300 artists in 184 locations taking part, representing a diverse range of artforms, from the traditional to the very contemporary. Helfa Gelf Art Trail is a fantastic opportunity for people to gain a real understanding of what goes into creating something. We hope this year will be our biggest and best yet and that lots of visitors support our local artists and makers. We think it is fantastic that the public are becoming more discerning and buying unique things that are produced in North Wales. It is such a boost to the local economy. ”

Tara Dean

“All our artists, with examples of their work, are listed online at www.helfagelf.co.uk/en/artists/. You can find artists on your door step or plan a trip to a different county. Just use the ‘Art Trail Map’ online at www.helfagelf.co.uk/en/map/,” says Sabine.” There is an artist working within a few miles of most people visiting or living in North Wales. There is such a thriving arts scene here.”

Helfa Gelf also promotes artists through exhibitions. We’re hosting this one at Undegun throughout September but there are also the following:

Oriel Pendeitsh

5 Sep – 3 Nov 2014
Castle Ditch
Caernarfon
Gwynedd LL55 2AY
Private view: 5 September
6.30 – 8.30pm

Denbigh Library Gallery

15 Nov 2014 –10 Jan 2015
Hall Square
Denbigh LL16 3NU
Private view: 14 November
6 – 8pm

Oriel Clwyd Theatr Cymru

6 Dec 2014 – 17 Jan 2015
Mold
Flintshire CH7 1YA
Private view: 6 December
5.30 – 7pm
And taking place all year:
MOSTYN Caffi Celf

Helfa Gelf in partnership with MOSTYN present a series of three month showcase exhibitions of artists’ work. All works are for sale and available through Collectorplan.
12 Vaughan Street
Llandudno LL30 1AB

Art in Hospitals

in partnership with
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
This is a great opportunity for artists to enhance the hospital setting for staff, visitors and patients. Look out for our exhibitions this year at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, Ysbyty Gwynedd and Ysbyty Maelor.

Funding has made the residencies, exhibition programme, publication of the Helfa Gelf Art Trail guide, the website www.helfagelf.co.uk and the wider promotion of the event possible. The Helfa Gelf Art Trail project has received funding through the Arts Council Wales and through the local Authorities across North Wales.

Sara-Jane Harper, an artist who also helps organise Helfa Gelf and worked with us on this exhibition says : “It is a fantastic event. Helfa Gelf has done a huge amount to support and promote artists in North Wales. We’ve got some really interesting artists taking part here in Wrexham and the open studios are a great way to showcase them.”

All studios are free to visit and if you want to start a collection of interesting art or craft, you can buy direct from the makers on the trail and chat to the artists and craftspeople about their creative process and materials.

For more information please contact :.
English: Sabine Cockrill 07715755567 /sabine@helfagelf.co.uk
Cymraeg: Gwenno Jones 01352 702 471 / Gwenno_E_Jones@flintshire.gov.uk

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Ronan Devlin – In Flow

Kirsty — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 11:40:25 +0000

This Friday is the first chance to see the new Oriel Wrecsam Offsite exhibition at Undegun and meet the artist.

The Void, on the top floor of the art space will host ‘In Flow’, an audio-visual artwork by Ronan Devlin about material and psychological changes in state. Upon entering the work the viewer becomes a conduit for change, while the work’s software driven system realigns and changes its condition in response to the viewer’s actions. Interconnectivity is fundamental in this exhibition, the results of which are emergent and unpredictable, creating unique experiences upon each engagement with the work.

Ronan Devlin is an artist and graphic designer based in Conwy, where he co-owns the multidisciplinary creative studio and gallery space Jein Devlin, with his wife Gillian Jein. Ronan works as a cross disciplinary artist making photographic, typographic and moving image works. His recent work and research draws parallels between meditation and technology through a combination of analogue and digital media.

Undegun, 11 Regent Street, Wrexham

17.30 – 19.00

Free/Am ddim

This also presents an opportunity to gain reduced entry to ROPE presents Pye Corner Audio, Not Waving with support from local noisemakers Baron La Croix

https://www.facebook.com/events/1525549747664402/?fref=ts

Central Station from 20.00

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THIS Friday

Kirsty — Wed, 14 May 2014 13:22:44 +0000

This Friday at Undegun is a big one. Stefan Gant will be delivering a talk about his work and THIS Project and Spectrum Promotions collaborate and host an evening of guest speakers and live music celebrating Wrexham’s musical heritage.

Stefan Gant will discuss his works & ideas surrounding drawing practice through 2D, 3D and 4D processes. The Tug of War Drawing Project is an Oriel Wrecsam Off-site presentation supported by the Arts Council of Wales showing on the top floor of Undegun and Stefan is the first artist to exhibit work in this space. This event is the perfect opportunity to see this exciting work and meet the artist. The event is free and all are welcome, wine and soft drinks will be provided.

Tir Tynnu Rhaff (Tug of War Land) is a 28ft x 3ft cast in graphite and resin of the ground in Llanybidder following a National Welsh Tug of War contest. The ground, containing the remnants of heel marks, ridges and hummocks narrates the Tug of War events generated through a one day culmination of competitive activity from teams across Wales. Derived from a plaster mould taken from the location, the resulting cast realised over an eight month period is both monumental and pays homage to the event, elevated on steel pins. The foot marks embedded in the cast act as a story telling device, revealing the struggles and episodes of the days events made by teams across Wales. The cast depicts strong geological connotation whilst equally a remnant of the raw human event. The traces left by the actions when reviewed closely expand enquiry through the topography of the welsh landscape made by its communities in new visual formats.

Lloegr y.e. Cymru (England vs. Wales) Video Documentary (Slow Motion) is a multi-camera video production portraying England (Oxney Vines Cross TOW Club) against Wales (Clwb Tynnu Rhaff Llanboidy, Sir Gâr) in a National Tug of War Competition. The slow motion portrayal depicts temporal ideas concerning the past, fragmentation, tension and deep cultural rivalry. Importantly, the piece plays with the link and connectivity between these two ancient cultural adversaries and essentially the psychology of human nature. The identity of the winner is cut short, alluding to a continued questioning. The piece formed part of a year-long project travelling with Welsh teams and communities, recording and exploring the relationship between expanded notions of drawing and the activity of the tug of war contest. This video was a highlight of the project, creating new visual manifestations. The video is considered a drawing, portraying notions of line, tension, boundaries, territories, gesture, physicality and performance, re-suggesting what drawing can be. The low pitch sounds carry deep-rooted notions of masculinity in its rawest form generated through the slowing process. The sound accentuates ideas of weight and force, though also embraces agricultural sounds, inherent to many of the rural participants.

Pwyso (Weigh-In) Duration 6mins (Silent) The video installation depicts the initial ritual stage of weighing-in prior to a Tug of War contest. Teams are collectively weighed into associated weight classes and finally ‘stamped’ or ‘branded’ through an approval stamp. The video documents the context of this act whilst the process of undressing and shedding clothing presents strong, evocative and almost sacrificial elements to this ritual sport. The video is monochromatic, silent and is soley engaged in visual observation, analysis and re-presentation. Notions of drawing are expanded though the mark given by the official and leg of the receiver.

Strike A Chord is a retrospective exhibition exploring 25 years of Wrexham music in pictures. To coincide with the stunning Focus Wales festival this year THIS Project, together with Spectrum Promotions and aided with the help of many people involved with the music scene over the years, devised this exhibition and we are currently displaying a number of posters documenting 25 years of music in Wrexham Music. We would like to extend and expand the exhibition and are currently accepting submissions – if you have any posters, tshirts, records, ticket stubs or film and photography or anything else relevant to the history of Wrexham music we’ll add it to the exhibit – contact mike@thisproject.co.uk (we’ll return it to you after, of course).

Introductions begin at 8 with This Wooden Ideal taking the stage shortly with more presentations and discussion taking place between no doubt blistering sets from Lovers Open Fire and local post-punk heroes Terminal

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