• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

"Glynn Vivian" logo typed in black text

Swansea’s City Gallery - A vibrant and inspiring art space for everyone

Header Left

Header Right

  • Facebook
  • Flickr
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Vimeo
  • YouTube

Header Left

Header Right

  • Facebook
  • Flickr
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Vimeo
  • YouTube
  • Home
  • What’s on
    • Glynn Vivian at Home
      • Glynn Vivian Learning
    • Exhibitions
    • Collections
    • Learning
    • Events
  • Exhibitions
    • Past
    • Current
    • Future
  • Collections
    • Collection displays
    • Richard Glynn Vivian
    • Conservation
    • Collection highlights
    • Photographic services
    • Swansea’s Three Night Blitz
  • Learning
    • Families
    • Schools + colleges
    • Young people
    • Adults
    • Community
    • Artist in residence
  • Hire
  • Visit
    • Book your free visit
    • Plan your visit
    • Take a virtual tour
    • Getting here
    • Café
    • Shop
    • Access
    • Visit Swansea Bay
  • About
    • History of the Gallery
    • Black Lives Matter
    • Coronavirus
    • Glynn Vivian News
    • Contact Us
    • Email sign-up
    • FAQs
  • Support us
    • Join the Friends of the Glynn Vivian
    • Ways to make a donation
    • Our supporters and networks
  • English
    • Cymraeg
  • Home
  • What’s on
    • Glynn Vivian at Home
      • Glynn Vivian Learning
    • Exhibitions
    • Collections
    • Learning
    • Events
  • Exhibitions
    • Past
    • Current
    • Future
  • Collections
    • Collection displays
    • Richard Glynn Vivian
    • Conservation
    • Collection highlights
    • Photographic services
    • Swansea’s Three Night Blitz
  • Learning
    • Families
    • Schools + colleges
    • Young people
    • Adults
    • Community
    • Artist in residence
  • Hire
  • Visit
    • Book your free visit
    • Plan your visit
    • Take a virtual tour
    • Getting here
    • Café
    • Shop
    • Access
    • Visit Swansea Bay
  • About
    • History of the Gallery
    • Black Lives Matter
    • Coronavirus
    • Glynn Vivian News
    • Contact Us
    • Email sign-up
    • FAQs
  • Support us
    • Join the Friends of the Glynn Vivian
    • Ways to make a donation
    • Our supporters and networks
  • English
    • Cymraeg

Exhibitions Opening Party

Thursday 26 September 2019 //  by Stephanie Rutt

Thursday 26 September 2019
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Come and celebrate the opening of these captivating exhibitions featuring work by local and international artists, discover inspirational works of art in Swansea from our own Collection.

Free, everyone welcome

Swansea Stories: From Monet to Maradona

To celebrate Swansea’s 50th anniversary as a city, Glynn Vivian presents Swansea Stories in which we are showing the largest selection of our permanent collection ever displayed. The Gallery’s collection includes works from the 18th century to modern times and it presents an eclectic and unique portrait of the city: the changing landscape that has inspired artists for centuries, from the steep hills of the city centre to the surrounding landscapes of Townhill, Mayhill, Mumbles and Dunvant, to our beautiful coastline.

The exhibition explores to main themes, Swansea People and Places and Swansea Favourites.

Swansea People and Places includes portraits of the rich and famous such as opera singer Adelina Patti, the poet Vernon Watkins, and past Lord Mayors; to its workers such as miners, cockle pickers and dockworkers – and even our very own beloved dog, Swansea Jack. Swansea’s streets, its beautiful coastline and its industry will also feature, from agricultural landscapes to the bombing of the city centre.

Swansea Favourites, is a collection of works which people ask to see most often. In this section we celebrate some of our most famous works by internationally renowned artists such as Gwen John and French Impressionists Claude Monet and Lucien Pissarro; and a papier-mâché portrait made by over 100 children from Penlan Comprehensive School in the 1980s.

Sophy Rickett: Cupid and the Curious Moaning of Kenfig Burrows

This solo exhibition by Sophy Rickett combines photography and text and is inspired by the life and work of Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn, a Swansea artist and astronomer active at the end of the 19th century. The project, which has evolved over a number of years, documents Rickett’s journey as she moves towards a closer understanding of this remote world of Victorian privilege, with its close connections to the early history of photography.

For her installation at Glynn Vivian, photographs and text from Cupid and the Curious Moaning of Kenfig Burrows are combined with works Rickett has selected from the Glynn Vivian’s own collection.


Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
Alexandra Road, Swansea, SA1 5DZ
map

0 iCal


Categories

  • Collections
  • Glynn Vivian at Night

Event Category: Collections, Glynn Vivian at Night

Footer

Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
Alexandra Road
Swansea, SA1 5DZ

+44 (0)1792 516900
glynn.vivian.gallery@swansea.gov.uk

Sign up to our email

Opening times
Wednesday – Sunday
11:00am – 3:30pm
Last entry 2:40pm

Free admission

Arts Council of Wales logo
Sponsored by Welsh Government logo
Tate Plus logo
Heritage lottery funded logo
Friends of the Glynn Vivian logo
Sponsored by Accredited Museum logo

Return to top of page

Copyright © · Glynn Vivian | Privacy and cookies| Website accessibility

Cookie notice
This website uses cookies to improve your experience but you can opt-out if you wish. Find out how we use cookies here Cookie settingsAccept
Cookies

Cookies overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website.

Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorised as necessary are stored on your browser, as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website.

We also use third-party cookies that help us analyse and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies, but opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled

Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.

Non-necessary

Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.