We are on the cusp of Spring, and once again love is in the air...
The news that no one wanted to hear...
https://newportphotomarathon.com STOP PRESS! Put down your remote, pick up your cameras or smartdevices and get ready… The Newport Photomarathon is set to return in 2021 with IN REAL LIFE workshops and activities in Newport. Established in 2017, the Newport Photomarathon is an event like no other. Typically...
Not so long ago, I had the pleasure of being invited by Julie Cook along with co-conspirator Dai Howell to join Valley Ffocws - a shifting Photographic collective based around Rhondda Cynon Taff, to take part in their open call around The Lady Windsor Colliery...
Recently I had the pleasure of taking part with community art project LOST CONNECTIONS - developed by Naz Syed of Ziba Creative - a visual art time capsule of work inspired by our experiences of COVID-19 and subsequent lock downs. The artwork I submitted to take...
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda - Happy New Year! 2020 was a tough year, but by gosh we made it through, and whilst the majority of folks have started the new year in lockdown once more, the good news the end to all this heartache is in...
2020...
This week's post is dedicated to Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre in Cwmbran. I was truly delighted to see on Friday evening just gone work I has submitted to their Community Sketchbook project pop up online. Delayed due to COVID-19, Llantarnam Granges' > latest / current /...
Another latergram this week of a project I was humbled to be involved with in 2019 alongside Sarah Goodey through our involvement with Art On The Hill Newport, this time for Kamila Jarczak's project Women of Newport. I first met Kamila back in 2018 after being...
Last week, I published my June newsletter...
In January 2020, #artsnewydd launched across social media platforms TWITTER and INSTAGRAM to help promote the arts in Newport. #artsnewydd came from the Newport CAN (Newport Community Artists Network) partnership with the desire to promote, profile and increase accessibility to the city's creative community. The hashtag...
It's fairly safe to say that much of the world has watched aghast at the violence and injustice of events in America this week - at the murder of George Floyd, the denial of responsibility, lack of accountability as well as the absolute brutality and...
Love and death changes all things – 2020 Wales Arts Review - Emergency Fundraiser for artists & freelancers impacted by COVID-19 On 27th - 29th March, Wales Arts Review held a digital arts festival to raise emergency funds for artists and freelancers whose income has been impacted...
This Friday The Gate is the final day of AS WE SEE IT by PHRAME Collective (last chance to see it friends, if you've been meaning to make it down for ages...
PHRAME Launch event on Facebook In April, PHRAME launches at The Gate as part of Diffusion Festival 2019. It is not a group of only women - it is a group of people supporting people across genders, nationality, ethnicity and backgrounds, raising each other up, sharing...
