Upcoming events open to all in 2025
Publicised on Instagram, X, Facebook and CASW’s website
Online Talks: Zoom link available approx. 2 weeks before event
No booking required for Live Talks
Location for Live Talks: The ‘Heartspace’, Cardiff School of Art & Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Llandaff Campus, Western Ave., Cardiff CF5 2YB
All Talks 7.00 pm & Free
Parking available on site.
January
28
Online talk: Martin Finnin
Tigers at the Gates: A Shift from Abstract to Figurative Painting and the Challenges of Changing Course
Booking via Eventbrite (free)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/martin-finnin-tigers-at-the-gates-tickets-1118930133149
February
25
Online talk: Louise Manifold
Storytelling in Time-Based Art: Insights from the West of Ireland
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86787098509?pwd=D6qPkQam0HNKaKcwDUVXOX8WKTUm3h.1
YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/xQp5bcOkRwI?feature=share
March
25
Online talk: Garry Barker
Forms of Becoming: The Poetics of Interoception
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83870108266?pwd=38byXPQjUKbMNG1uVhuKaqQr05pW8w.1
YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/XMmrhnrfiaw?feature=share
October
7
Live talk, Cardiff School of Art & Design: Mark Richards
Negotiating creativity within the confines of commissioned sculpture
28
Live talk, Cardiff School of Art & Design: Frances Woodley
A Mixed Practice
November
18
Live talk, Cardiff School of Art & Design: Amelia Huw Morgan
‘Parallels, Portals and the Periscope Place’ – context, collaborations and community in our contemporary world
CASW organises regular talks, both live and online, open to everyone as part of its commitment to promoting engagement with contemporary art and artists. See under ‘Artists’ for previous talks online and in print as well as podcasts.
If you support contemporary art and artists in Wales by becoming a member of CASW, you can take part in the regular talks, visits and study tours in the UK and abroad which CASW organises for its members.
Upcoming events for CASW members in 2025
Monthly talks, study tours in UK and abroad and gallery visits are organised for members, who are notified directly through CASW’s regular e-bulletins (which also include booking information) and an annually published calendar.
February
8
Peter Lord
Great Expectations: The Eyes of Wales on Edgar Herbert Thomas
March
13
Study visit, Lampeter Campus, University of Wales Trinity St Davids
The Illustrated Books at Lampeter University Library
22
Emily O’Reilly
Conserving Art and History on Paper
31 (to 6 April)
Study tour to Cologne & Düsseldorf
April
16
Study visit to Y Gaer, Brecon (Pop-up)
David Moore on Brecknock Art Trust
May
2
Hibbard Award, Private View (Pop-up)
Nantgarw Chinaworks
17
Carl Chapple
Portraits and Performance
June
13
Cardiff School of Art and Design, Degree Show
July
26
Annual General Meeting
Newport, Riverfront Arts Centre
29
No Welsh Art, National Library of Wales (Pop-up)
September
20
Sarah Hopkins
Industrial Heritage in Contemporary Print
October
14-17
Study tour to North Wales
25
Claire Curneen
Between my Finger and my Thumb
November
6
Annual dinner
December
6
Peter Wakelin
Pursued by a Bear: the art of William McClure Brown
Landscape/Colour Series 1 (2015)
Sophie Southgate
Ceramic

