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...

Groundbreaking: 20 Years of Public Art

Iwan Bala

As the growth of art in public places continues, Groundbreaking is a timely look at this field from the perspective of one of the leading organisations in the field. Cywaith Cymru/Artworks Wales (formerly the Welsh Sculpture Trust) was among the very earliest bodies which developed and promoted public art in Britain....

Here + Now

Iwan Bala

The visual arts in Wales are in ferment. Here and Now is a timely and in-depth consideration of the practise of individual artists and the infrastructure in which they operate.

Intimate Portraits: Contemporary Responses to the Theme of Portraiture

Alison Lloyd

The word ’portrait’ is, to many people, evocative of those posed formal studies of the nobility adorning the walls of stately homes across Europe and beyond. Yet portraiture in its broadest sense surely encompasses all attempts at depicting the human form, character and condition...

Into Painting: Brendan Stuart Burns

David Alston

A small, isolated beach in Pembrokeshire is the almost exclusive subject of the paintings of Brendan Burns. His aim is to record, explore and interpret the constant change of shoreline, tide, horizon, climate and rock pools through a semi-abstract style which references artists from Monet to Pollock …

The Painter’s Quarry: The Art of Peter Prendergast

In a career spanning four decades, Peter Prendergast established himself as one of Britain’s foremost landscape painters, and a formidable painter of portraits and self portraits. The Painter’s Quarry is a valuable and timely collection of essays and full colour prints, tracing the development of one of Wales’ greatest living artists ...

Philip Wilson Steer

Ysanne Holt


Philip Wilson Steer (1860-1942) spent his childhood and youth at Whitchurch near Ross-on-Wye, just three miles from the English-Welsh border, and studied at the Gloucester College of Art. He was at the centre of much...

Poet Portraits/Portreadau Beirdd

Lorraine Bewsey

Poet Portraits, Portreadau Beirdd, Lorraine Bewsey, poets, Wales, pastel, hyper-realist Dannie Abse, Tony Curtis, Grahame Davies, Christine Evans, Catherine Fisher, Peter Finch, Paul Groves, Paul Henry, Gwyneth Lewis, Tim Liardet, Hilary Llewellyn-Williams, Patrick McGuinness, Christopher Meredith, Robert Minhinnick, Twm Morys, Pascale Petit, Owen Sheers, Zoë Skoulding, Meic Stephens, Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, www.lorrainesartstudio.co.uk

Process: Explorations of the Work of Tim Davies

Tim Davies et al

Tim Davies is one of the most exciting artists working in Britain today. Internationally exhibited and acclaimed he specialises in art which explores identity through artefacts - he has approached Wales through wool, fire, oil-drenched...