Artes Mundi

Tessa Jackson, Editor

The Artes Mundi Prize has been established to celebrate visual culture within a global context. Set to become a biennial event, it showcases artists who have achieved recognition in their own country and are emerging…

Arthur Giardelli: Painting, Constructions, Relief Sculptures

Derek Shiel

This beautifully illustrated book reveals how Giardelli’s childhood in the country shaped his life. It examines his Italian background, his education at Oxford, and his sudden removal to Wales. A friend of Cedric Morris, David...

Behind the Canvas

Kevin Sinnott

Kevin Sinnott is one of the most popular artists in Britain: his figures in landscapes and images of human relationships are widely sought-after by collectors and museums. Part autobiography, part exploration of his art, it describes the British art scene over the last thirty years through personal experience.  Behind the Canvas is real life, not an art historian’s interpretation…

“Part treatise, part confessional autobiography, part journal, with occasionally detailed explications of individual paintings, Behind the Canvas is a welcome addition to Seren’s growing list of contemporary art in Wales.” Planet, May 2009.

David Jones: The Maker Unmade

Jonathan Miles, Derek Shiel

New edition. David Jones, the greatest painter-poet since Blake, was celebrated and revered by the most renowned of his contemporaries. Since his death in 1974, a growing circle of enthusiasts has valued his work for...

Ernest Zobole: A Life in Art

The Gallipoli Diary

Jonah Jones

The Gallipoli Diary is a collection of essays and memoirs by Jonah Jones, one of our leading sculptors. Very much a man of his times, the essays reflect Jones’s life from humble beginnings, his service...