It is with great sadness that we hear of the death of Ken Pritchard. Ken was a member of the group from 1982 through to 2012 when he ceased to be an exhibiting member and became an honorary member. His work was informed by his time as a miner and as a sailor in the Royal Navy, he worked as a stone mason as well as painting the mining communities so familiar to him. He is also known for his lyrical paintings of the Welsh landscape.

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RIP: 14th October 2024.

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Online

January, 2025

Online project. Andy Warhol said ‘Voyeurism is a director’s job description. It’s an artist’s too'. An online showing of work that exists in the digital world alone or that reframes an event or happening.

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Screening Friday, 17th January, 2025 at the Grange Pavilion, Grange Gardens, Cardiff CF11 7LJ.

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Paul Brewer 

Paul Edwards
Dilys Jackson

Karin Mear

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(Image: Paul Brewer)

​8 Shows

The Welsh Group is a collective formed and run by artists, where there is no dominant style or particular agenda; rather the group provides a snapshot of work out of artists studios across South and West Wales and establishing a connection with current concerns and practices.

This project aims to bring the Welsh Group to a wider audience and to focus on particular ideas or aspects of fine art practice by a series of small themed shows.

 

‘8 Shows’ begins at Queens Street Gallery in Neath, auspiciously on March 1st - St. David's Day - and ends in the landscape of Ceredigion in the Spring of 2025.

‘About Time’ Queens Street Gallery, Neath:
An exhibition that brings together artists who make work about time explicitly, or who explore variations on a theme or subject over time, often over many decades.
March 2 - March 30, 2024

‘Where are we now?’ Oriel Canfas Cardiff:
Have the pandemic years impacted on or changed the way we make art today and has an increased awareness of our mortality altered the way we look at the world? These are some of the questions five women artists are hoping to explore
March 23 - April 13, 2024

‘Genius Loci’ Oriel Canfas, Cardiff:
This is an exhibition where artist respond to nature, going beyond the mere surface of things, finding a quality described as genius loci or spirit of place - a quality that defies description but is present nevertheless.
July 2 - July 20, 2024

‘Seen and Unseen’ Bay Art, Cardiff:
As artists we gather memory sensations, specific observations and feelings. Sometimes this results in dreamlike, disembodied spaces. Chromatic intensity heightens the mood. Absence of specific colour also creates gaps for new space sensations and feelings to occur. Some artists delve into a fantastically rich European tradition of colour density and Eastern sensibilities of emptiness…
Part of the Autumn programme at Bay Arts - November 6 - 23.

‘Making Space / Shaping Space’ West Wharf Gallery, Cardiff

An exhibition that exploits the architectural environment either by making sculpture that explores the interior architectural environment, - actual space and actual object - or by exploiting the illusory space contained within the edges of the picture.
November 6 - December 31, 2024

‘Witness’
Online project. Andy Warhol said ‘Voyeurism is a director’s job description. It’s an artist’s too. An online showing of work that exists in the digital world alone or that reframes an event or happening.
Screening Friday, 17th January, 2025 at the Grange Pavilion, Grange Gardens, Cardiff CF11 7LJ.

‘The Unexpected’ Studio Cennen, Llandeilo:
In some ways all artists deal with the unexpected, sometimes explicitly and more often by default.
Georgia O’Keeffe describes it this way ’making your unknown known - a rediscovery’ or as Magritte puts it ‘The beauty of art lies in the unexpected connections it makes between things’.
March 20 - April 26, 2025

‘In the Landscape’ Woodland, Llandysul, Ceredigion:
A project where artists make work that responds to place, an area of land in Ceredigion approximately 30 acres of woodland, meadow, reed beds, an area that is a wildlife habitat. The work for this project has a haptic presence using materials found on site to form structures that are hand made and then changed by the passing of time and the action of nature.
April 4 - May 9, 2025

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(Image: 'Self Portrait with Bo' by Paul Edwards)