Billy Adams - Ceramics - Tuesday 23rd October Billy Adams, although Irish by birth, has lived and worked in Wales since the late 80s. He did his Masters in Ceramics in Cardiff at that time. His thrown forms were originally based on ancient Celtic monuments like the...
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Billy Adams -Ceramics -Tuesday 23rd October 2018
Esther Milardi – The Italian Futurist – 25th September 2018
Esther Milardi, born in Reggio Calabria (Italy), moved to Britain to do a Masters and then a PhD which she dedicated to exploring the link between art and forms of self-representations. After teaching as a lecturer at Cardiff University, she started a new career in...
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Peter Wakelin Roger Cecil : a Secret Artist – 20th November 2018
Roger Cecil (1942–2015)
David Buckman of the Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945 said, ‘In nine years of gathering material for a dictionary containing over 10,000 names, he remains the most impressive discovery.’ He was one of the most able and prolific artists of his generation but he was unmoved by exhibitions, groups or status and he remained all his life in the mining valley where he grew up, often working as a labourer and open-cast miner to support his art.
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