Galleries - October 2011

Gorffennaf 30 July - Hydref 29 October Naws gan Bethau Edrych ar Fywyd Llonydd a Ffigyrau gyda Gwrthrychau The Quality of Things Looking at Still Life and Figures with Objects www.gwynedd.gov.uk/museums Mynediad am ddim/ Free Admission Ffordd Gwynedd Bangor Gwynedd Wales LL57 1DT 01246 353 368 Andrew Tift ‘There is no Substitute’ Amfueddfa ac Oriel Gwynedd Museum & Art Gallery ORIEL Q Truth, Lies & Alibis - A journey CHRISTINE KINSEY 22 October- 3 December Queen’s Hall Gallery Narberth, Pembrokeshire Wales SA67 7AS Wed-Sat 10-5 www.orielqueenshallgallery.org.uk 18. GALLERIES OCTOBER 11 Compared to England, Wales has a small population which is gene- rally either scattered widely or clustered into dense urban areas. For an artist, a gallery and some- times for a bewildered public, reconciling the need for timeless and street-wise subjects that respond to these very different environments can be a challenge. Look around Wales’s galleries this October and you’ll find a fasci- nating range of answers – or deft compromises – to the problem. Up on the north coast outside Conwy, for example, Oriel Ffin y Parc is showing Poke Me, 60 paintings by Sue Williams. The title is a pun on the Facebook button. Using her brilliant graphic skills, she drags us into a real and often ugly world of glamour, sexual provocation, exploitation, violence, loneliness and fear. The females in her large, painful pictures could be temptresses or victims: we have to decide . . . Meanwhile in Conwy itself, at the Royal Cambrian Academy , The Class of ’58 brings together five painters and printmakers – Tom Jones, Karel Lek, Don McIn- tyre, William Selwyn and Edwin Forrest – who were included in the RCA’s summer show in 1958. Their different temperaments, backgrounds and influences (Eastern Europe and Scottish Colourists to name only two) helped shape modern art in Wales. Oriel Ynys Môn on Anglesey is so attractive it’s worth visiting for its own sake. An exhibition of page 68 ART IN WALES ART IN WALES Galleries WALES is a printed supplement to GALLERIES magazine - with the best of the latest and coolest ART SHOWS in and around t he country i t can be picked up from galleries, museums & hotels a nd many other venues. Further information see www.galleries.co.uk Caroline Juler & Nicholas Usherwood tour galleries around the country Keith Bowen ‘Ifor-study’ at Oriel Plas Kevin Sinnott, ‘Mother in Crochet’ at Martin Tinney Wilbur Heynes ‘Contemplative (St David’s Head)’ detail at Gallery 8, London

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