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