As Swansea celebrates it’s 40th year of City status, the Glynn Vivian along with the Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts have been working together to bring two cutting edge Swansea artists to the city’s art gallery.
On Friday 9 October from 6.30pm one of Wales’ leading contemporary artists, Tim Davies will present his recent work in Between a Rock and a Hard Place, giving visitors a rare insight in to the ideas and thinking behind his processes in a guided tour and talk of this exhibition.
The exhibition features bridges, cathedrals and monuments in which Tim Davies tries to uncover the real and symbolic meaning behind these powerful structures.
Tim Davies has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally and was the winner of the Mostyn Open Prize in 1997, the National Eisteddfod Fine Art Gold Medal in 2003 and the Richard and Rosemary Wakelin Purchase Award in 2005. He was also shortlisted for the prestigious Artes Mundi prize in 2004. The exhibition is generously supported by the Friends of the Gallery.
The Gallery is proud to house some of the best known Welsh artists from the 20th and 21st Century and the new exhibitions by Tim Davies and Eva Bartussek extend the Gallery’s support of artists working in Swansea.
Emerging artist, Eva Bartussek, also opens her new exhibition on Friday 9 October, Horse House a surreal exploration of a mansion in Wales lived in by both its owners and their horses. Eva is currently completing her PhD in Photography at Swansea Metropolitan University, which has generously supported this show, her first solo exhibition in Wales.
The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery is part of the City & County of Swansea.
Cllr Graham Thomas, Swansea Council's Cabinet Member for Culture, Recreation and Tourism, said: "The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery is renowned for the quality of its exhibitions and we're very pleased to present the latest work by both of these Swansea-based artists.
"Eva Bartussek’s photography documents an extraordinary situation, whilst Tim Davies’s exhibition casts some of the world’s famous bridges in a new light - it's intriguing to see how they actually appear when taken away from the context of their locations and backgrounds.
"This will be a fascinating insight into what they can symbolise in our world today."
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