Print Residency at The Curwen Studio 2016
Farewell Rock The last coal miners of South Wales An exhibition of new work by artist Hilary Powell Preview 18:00 – 20:30, 28 July 2016 Exhibition open 29 July – 23 August 2016* The Welfare, Brecon Road, Ystradgynlais, SA9 1JJ The exhibition will be opened by Wayne Thomas, South Wales General Secretary, National Union of Mineworkers. The preview will include a short film and presentation by Hilary Powell. The last coal miners of South Wales emerge from a drift mine in the Upper Swansea Valley. Hilary Powell documents these workingmen and the landscape and culture that surround them in a series of printed portraits. Farewell Rock is the band of sandstone that lies below the coal measures. Once reached it signals ‘a farewell to riches’ and the end of coal – fitting as the last open cast mines in the region are mothballed and the colliery faces an uncertain future. The exhibited work was produced through the Josef Herman Art Foundation Cymru’s Print Residency at The Curwen Studio, where Josef Herman produced many of his print works. Josef Herman was a Polish emigrant who settled in and portrayed the then thriving mining town of Ystradgynlais in the 1950s. Herman’s journal, ‘Notes from a Welsh Diary’, became a starting point for Hilary to examine the very different contemporary landscape of industrial decline and recovery. When a miner is injured the presence of coal dust in the wound creates blue scars. They call it ‘being mapped.’ These portraits are also maps – layered coalfaces produced through the processes of stone and offset lithography and printed using coal dust – an apt...
Special Raffle
This Special Raffle of works by artists Valerie Ganz and Mike Jones will be drawn at the launch of the ‘Friends of Josef Herman Foundation’ on 16th October 2015 at the Welfare, Ystradgynlais. Tickets are £5 and on sale from the Foundation. ...
Eisteddfod 2015
Cyhoeddodd Mererid Hopwood mai Menna Angharad sydd wedi ennill Gwobr Josef Herman Dewis Y Bobl yn Eisteddfod Maldwyn a’r Gororau 2015. Mae’r disgrifiad o waith Menna Angharad yn y Lle Celf yn dweud ei bod yn creu ‘portreadau eiconig o wrthrychau digon cyffredin’. Yn ail roedd Jason Chart Davies am ei emwaith papur ac arian, ac yn drydydd roedd ffotograffydd dewi Glyn Jones. Rhoddwyd Mererid teyrnged i’r diweddar artist a noddwr Sefydliad Josef Herman, Osi Rhys Osmond wrth wneud y cyhoeddiad yn y Lle Celf ar y maes yn Meifod. Hilary Osmond a Mererid Hopwood...
Schools Project 2015
Young artists inspired by Josef Herman and their local landscape Photo:Ffion Roberts Drakley A new exhibition of young people’s artwork inspired by the internationally renowned artist Josef Herman opened this week at the Welfare Ystradgynlais with a celebratory event. Pupils from schools in Neath Port Talbot, Powys, Swansea and Carmarthenshire came together on 24th June to mark their achievements over the past two months as part of the Josef Herman Schools Project 2015 and to see each other’s creative work on show, including a wide variety of art forms from paper craft and book making to portraiture and three dimensional work. The Josef Herman Schools Project has been an annual event since 2000 and it is led by the Josef Herman Art Foundation Cymru. The project places artists in schools to work with pupils to develop their own artistic responses to the life, times and work of Polish-émigré artist Josef Herman, who lived in Ystradgynlais from 1944 to 1955. Herman’s time in Ystradgynlais greatly influenced his work, which is now held in many major collections around the world, including Tate and Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales. As part of the project the young people walked in Herman’s footsteps by visiting Ystradgynlais and viewing and sketching the valley, chapels, houses and studios where he once lived and worked. They also visited the Foundation’s collection of Herman prints and paintings on display in the Welfare Ystradgynlais. Back in the classroom they worked with a project artist to research Herman’s archive on the Tate website, explore his artistic techniques in depth and make their own artworks based on what they had...
Eisteddfod 2015
Unwaith eto “Newyddion da a ddaeth i’n Bro” oherwydd bod Sefydliad Josef Herman Cymru, sydd â’i ganolfan yn Ystradgynlais, yn cyfranogi yn yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol eleni eto. Cynhelir yr Eisteddfod ym Meifod, Canolbarth Cymru. Mae’r Sefydliad wedi cyfranogi bob blwyddyn ers 2008 gan gynnig gwobr o £500 i enillydd y gystadleuaeth “Dewis y Bobl” ym mhabell Celf a Chrefft yr Eisteddfod. Mae hanes diddorol tu hwnt i bob enillydd a phleserus iawn yw, i ni fel ymddiriedolwyr, gefnogi arlunwyr...Facebook Feed
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Spring Bulletin • Bwletin Gwanwyn
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Today we said our goodbyes to painter, John Selway, at the beautiful StMichaels Church in Abertillery. A fitting setting as we were surrounded by John’s striking series of canvases of ‘ The Stations of the Cross’
John and his wife Allison pictured below at Oriel is Bont earlier this year with Carolyn and Elinor of JHAF
Great to see our newest patron, Michael Sheen, back in Ystradgynlais!
Here’s a lovely little write up on Fridays festivities.... we can’t wait!! We’ll be posting the evenings itinerary tonight, so watch this space 🎄