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Curator Talk – Shaping Wales: Bell and Armistead

Saturday 13 May 2023 //  by laura.gill

Saturday 13 May 2023
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Mark Gertler, Portrait of the Artist's Mother,1913Swansea Council: Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Collection
Mark Gertler, Portrait of the Artist’s Mother,1913
Swansea Council: Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Collection

Join Dr Ceri Thomas, curator of Shaping Wales, for a talk about the exhibition. 

The exhibition celebrates the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery’s first two full-time curators and their pioneering leadership of the gallery’s exhibitions, collections, and acquisitions programmes in the 1950s and 1960s. 

Shaping Wales, focuses on the key roles’ curators David Bell (1915-1959) and Kathleen Armistead (1902-1971) played in establishing and developing Wales’ contemporary art scene.   

Everyone welcome 

Free, £3 donation welcome.  

Booking essential. Call 01792 516900 or book online  

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Book now – Curator Talk, Shaping Wales, with Dr. Ceri Thomas



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