#39: Offline Journal Newsletter : August '22
Photography Exhibition updates across Wales
Hello again
With good (very hot) weather still with us, I thought I’d share a couple of bits of exhibition news shared with me since the last edition of this Newsletter.
Go visit them - and a few others listed below!
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YN Y TIR
Now showing in Ffoto Newport
Yn y Tir is a group exhibition by Ffion Denman who depicts the landscapes of post-industrial Wales; and Matthew Harry who’s photographic practice focuses upon infrastructure and its intertwining with communities. Both explore Wales’ relationships, past and present, with the land and how this has influenced culture, community and language.
The ‘Yn Y Tir’ Private View opened on Friday 5 August.
Thanks to Offline Journal contributor Peter Evans for the photographs!
Artists Statement:
The story of industry in Wales is one of extraction from the land.
Slate from the north roofed the world, hued from the misty mountains of ancient legend. Providing as hard-wearing a product as the land's inhabitants. Iron ore all over the world came to be smelted in the white-heat of Port Talbot's flames. One of passion which burns brightly, a culture rich of smiths of both steel and words.
To transport these goods, great railway networks were built. Running to the coast, exporting these products around the globe. In the post-industrial Wales we now live in, the sound of holltwr’s might well have fallen silent over the mountains of Snowdonia. Only to be replaced by the sound of tourists in the now world heritage site.
The workforce at Port Talbot might have dwindled from its historical highs, but hasn't stopped the flow of steel from the blast furnaces – becoming a focal point for the town's creative talent.
And the once grand railway network was culled to a few major routes and branch lines. Those permanent ways became the foundation for today's bypasses, providing new super highways for the hi-tech industries of today.
The extraction from the land continues, the story never truly ending.
YN Y TIR
Ffion Denman & Matthew Harry
5 - 27 August 2022 (Private View 5 August 5.30 - 8.30pm)
Ffoto Newport, Newport
www.facebook.com/FfotoNewport
DOC CYMRU
Showing now until 29 August in Galeri, Caernarfon
Since Doc Cymru announced their formation in January 2021 intent on documenting the effects of Brexit on Wales, the Welsh Collective have had all manner of challenges (along with the rest of us) to contend with. As we’ve all discovered, the new phenomenon on ‘Lockdown’ isn’t exactly conducive to photographing people in their home or work environments.
Determined to give a flavour of their individual project themes thus far, the four-member collective comprising Kristina Banholzer, Glenn Edwards, Rhodri Ellis-Jones & Roger Tiley are currently showing a selection of prints on the walls in the Galeri art space in Caernarfon.
DOC CYMRU: BREXIT PROJECT
Rhodri Ellis-Jones, Glenn Edwards, Roger Tiley & Kristina Banholzer
20 July - 29 August 2022
Galeri, Caernarfon
www.galericaernarfon.com
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
A WHISPER STIRS THE SILENCE
John Clow
12 June - 21 October 2022
Ffotogaleri y Gofeb, Machynlleth
www.ffotogaleriygofeb.co.uk
WHAT IS LOST...WHAT HAS BEEN
John Paul Evans
17 June - 3 September 2022
Ffotogallery, Cardiff
www.ffotogallery.org
US HERE NOW
Jon Pountney & Common Wealth
16 July - 24 September 2022
Futures Gallery, Pierhead Building, Cardiff Bay
www.senedd.wales/visit/exhibitions
TAKEN IN WALES
Leanne Bevan-Clark
17 July - no se end date
Former Argos Store, Unit 1/2, 74 High Street, BLACKWOOD
www.modernaart.co.uk/exhibitions
DOC CYMRU: BREXIT PROJECT
Rhodri Ellis-Jones, Glenn Edwards, Roger Tiley & Kristina Banholzer
20 July - 29 August 2022
Galeri, Caernarfon
www.galericaernarfon.com
CELEBRATING PRIDE at Ffotogallery
A month-long programme of workshops, discussions, artists talks, films and activities with a focus around LGBTQ+ subjects.
1 - 31 August 2022
Ffotogallery, Cardiff
www.ffotogallery.org
THE LLŶN PENINSULA
Malcolm Glover
2 August - 25 September 2022
Oriel Colwyn, Colwyn Bay
www.orielcolwyn.org
YN Y TIR
Ffion Denman & Matthew Harry
5 - 27 August 2022 (Private View 5 August 5.30 - 8.30pm)
Ffoto Newport, Newport
www.facebook.com/FfotoNewport
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
NAWR SUMMER FESTIVAL - PHOTOGRAPHY PANEL
Panel discussion Welsh photography with Jon Poutney, Justin Rossiter and Ellie Hopkins (part of NAWR Summer Festival events)
17 August 2022
Umbrella Art Collective, in Capitol Shopping Centre, 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