What’s on

During August 2020 we invited people of any age and location, to send us a Postcard to the Future.

The annual award is given to a Welsh artist, whose work is purchased for the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection.

Using embroidery, needle-work skills, and creative will, this collaborative wall hanging demonstrates that through kindness, empathy and friendship creativity can bring people together.

The exhibition, ‘Terra Ferma’, brings together approximately 70 works dating from 2008 to the present, including large scale immersive installations, paintings, sculptures, videos and drawings.

The exhibition revolves around the portrait painting of a young woman from the court of Queen Anne, from the Richard Glynn Vivian Bequest of 1911. Through the painting, and more specifically the use of the pigment colour indigo, the display will explore the history of the period in which the painting was made, the chemical nature of pigments and paint recipes, along with art conservation materials, chemistry, and techniques.

Thinking Green is an exhibition curated by Owen Griffiths and community groups as part of the Land Dialogues project.

(Post)colonial Conversations between South Asia and Wales, took place online in May 2020 and was led by British Art Network bursary awardee Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, and South Asian Art Historian Dr Zehra Jumabhoy, Associate Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. These seminars mark the beginning of the build-up to a major exhibition at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, featuring contemporary Welsh and South Asian artists in 2022.