#37: Offline Journal Newsletter : July '22
A packed Summer and Autumn of photography
Hello again
I hope you’re well and stating hydrated!
Following an unscheduled health scare last week, I’m back on my feet and can share the next Offline Journal Newsletter with some news and what looks like an impressive list of exhibitions running now and scheduled over the next few months.
No doubt the warm, hot and getting hotter weather will have many photographers out and about with cameras and making new work but, as shown in the listings at the end of this Newsletter, photographers and galleries are offering a wealth of exhibitions to enjoy over a busy Summer and Autumn here in Wales. Go see a few.
Brian
Looking for Signs - new photobook ahead
Carmarthenshire-based photographic artist Peter Finnemore is bringing together photographs made during two trips to India in 2017 and 2018 in a new photobook to be published later this month.
The 140 x 240mm case bound book has 304 pages comprising 200 black & white plus 40 silver duotone images. It represents Finnemore’s fourth publication, joining Gwendraeth House (2000), Zen Gardener (2004), and The Silent Village (2010).
“Looking For Signs, is an experience of India made through the expressive frame of a hand held camera. The snapshot vision is used as a means of fluid and creative documentation of social spaces and experiences of the self, set in the atmosphere and dynamic arena of India”.
- Peter Finnemore
Looking for Signs will be published this month and, if you’re quick, is still available at a discounted pre-order price of £30 direct from the Artist’s website. A limited edition of 20 copies of the book will ship with a print signed by the artist.
www.peterfinnemore.com/Looking-for-signs
Pete Davis’ ‘City Stories’ coming to Cardiff
After its launch exhibition at Found Gallery in Brecon this April, 'City Stories - Photographs of Cardiff, 1969-1977' by photographer Pete Davis will be shown in its home city of Cardiff this October.
This offers South Wales audiences another opportunity to see this rich body of documentary work shot in around the streets of Splott in Cardiff when Pete David was starting out on his career.
As a Subscriber+ supporter you will recall the ‘walk and talk’ audio piece with myself and Pete discussing the work on the walls during its first showing in Brecon - and still available to listen to on the members area of www.offline.wales using this link and the password: photopass?0722
“The photographs of Splott, where I was brought up and went to school, were made at the time that the main employer in the area - the steelworks - was closing, and the area being pulled apart and 're-developed'. This was a substantial part of the city not just in transition but about to disappear altogether. Conscious of the very major changes there and the upheaval to the many residents at the time, I would return on numerous occasions to record the street life and the gradual decay and destruction of the urban landscape that I had regarded as home until the mid 1960’s. I also continued this work in the wider city environment. Ideas and attitudes to creative work alter as time progresses and reactions to particular images change as they are viewed in a different historical and social context from the ones in which they were created”.
- Pete Davis
www.pete-davis-photography.com
5 minutes will help inform a new study
Before you peruse the busy photography exhibitions (below) showing now and in coming months - I’d appreciate five minutes of your time to answer just nine very short questions relating to gallery exhibitions and their show opening events.
Your input will help inform an article planned for an upcoming article and related posts on this Newsletter.
Thanks, Brian
Photography Exhibitions & Events
Here’s a list of exhibitions & events I’m aware of in, and bordering, Wales.
If you’re aware of any others planned for 2022, please leave a comment or direct the photographer or gallery representative my way via: offline.journal@gmail.com
DAVID HURN: SWAPS
David Hurn / Various
23 October 2021 - 29 August 2022 (extended)
National Museum Wales, Cardiff
www.museum.wales
Make/Believe
Photographs of/by Angus McBean from the School of Art collection
16 May - 30 September 2022
Aberystwyth School of Art
www.aber.ac.uk/en/art/gallery-museum/exhibitions
WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
Various photographers / Natural History Museum
27 May - 29 August 2022
National Museum, Cardiff
www.museum.wales
WHAT IS LOST...WHAT HAS BEEN
John Paul Evans
17 June - 3 September 2022
Ffotogallery, Cardiff
www.ffotogallery.org
WE’LL SHOW BARTEK ALL COLOURS OF AFRICA
Bartosz & Ewa Nowiki
24 June - 23 July 2022
Ffoto Newport, Newport
www.facebook.com/FfotoNewport
WALES AT THE SEASIDE / CYMRU AR LAN Y MÔR
Jon Pountney (Artist talk in gallery: 3pm 23 July)
25 June - 30 July
Gallery Ten, Cardiff
www.gallery-ten.co.uk
CONNECTED SHAPES
Group exhibition (photography by Lynda Porter)
6 July - 6 August 2022
Found Gallery, Brecon
www.foundgallery.co.uk
US HERE NOW
Jon Pountney & Common Wealth
16 July - 24 September 2022
Futures Gallery, Pierhead Building, Cardiff Bay
www.senedd.wales/visit/exhibitions
LIFE ON THE FLOODPLAIN - A GARDEN WILDLIFE DIARY 2020
Ceri Leigh (Illustrated artist talk 28 July at 7pm)
26 July - 8 August
Melville Cetre for the Arts, Abergavenny
www.melvillecentre.org.uk
THE LLŶN PENINSULA
Malcolm Glover
30 July - 25 September 2022
Oriel Colwyn, Colwyn Bay
www.orielcolwyn.org
HILL FINDS… AND ALL THAT JAZZ
Photography by Barry Hill of Musicians and events of Brecon Fringe over 10 years
10 August - 10 September 2022 (live music 10 August at 6pm)
Found Gallery, Brecon
www.foundgallery.co.uk
PICTURES OF YOU - PHOTO WALK ABOUT IDENTITY
The Queer Emporium leading a photo walk around the heart of Cardiff
14 August
Ffotogallery, Cardiff
www.ffotogallery.org
NAWR SUMMER FESTIVAL - PHOTOGRAPHY PANEL
Panel discussion Welsh photography with Jon Poutney, Justin Rossiter and Ellie Hopkins (part of NAWR Summer Fetival events)
17 August
Umbrella Art Collective, Cardiff
www.linktr.ee/nawrmag
CITY STORIES
Pete Davis: Cardiff 1969 - 1977
1 October - 8 December 2022
Futures Gallery, Pierhead Building, Cardiff Bay
www.senedd.wales/visit/exhibitions
PWER POBL / PEOPLE POWER
exhibition, tour and workshops on the work of female & nonbinary photographers that, from a feminist perspective, has documented the act of protest and shaped its representation
Octoner 2022 - January 2023
Workers Gallery, Ynyshir, Rhondda Valley
www.workersgallery.co.uk
FESTIVALS
THE EYE INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL 2022
7 - 9 October 2022
Aberystwyth Arts Centre
www.theeyefestival.com
BOOKS ON PHOTOGRAPHY (BOP) 2022
7 - 9 October 2022 (more info soon)
Martin Parr Foundation / Royal Photographic Society - Bristol
www.martinparrfoundation.org
PHOTO IRELAND
7 July - 28 August 2022
Dublin, Ireland
www.2022.photoireland.org