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Cywaith Cymru.Artworks Wales
Crichton House
11-12 Mount Stuart Square
Cardiff
CF10 5EE
Phone: 029 2048 9543
Fax: 029 2046 5458 |
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Cywaith Cymru . Artworks Wales Artists in Residence projects
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ROYAL GLAMORGAN HOSPITAL |
| artist(s): C.HILES & H. PARNELL (YR 1) H. PARNELL & N. TALBOT (YR 2) |
| The Royal Glamorgan Hospital opened in 2000 and the residency scheme startedin 2002 with a remit to work with the hospital staff and the wider community to develop and produce new artworks and projects for the hospital. Carol Hiles and Heather Parnell were appointed to research, organise and facilitate a variety of workshops and sessions to encourage collaborations between staff and different departments. |
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Castell Henllys 2004 - Land, Wood and Water |
| artist(s): Andy Rowe and Lorraine Taylor |
| Castell Henllys hillfort is part of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and one of many prehistoric promontory forts in the National Park dating to around 600BC. What makes this site particularly important is that archaeologists have been excavating here for over twenty years and thatched Iron Age buildings have been reconstructed on their original foundations. As a resource for understanding the Iron Age, Castell Henllys is second to none, providing a unique combination of Scheduled Ancient Monument, archaeological excavation and experimental archaeology. |
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BASTA |
| artist(s): Bedwyr Williams |
| Basta. Wales at the Venice Biennale of Art 2005. A residency by Bedwyr Williams. The residency was a partnership between Cywaith Cymru Artworks Wales and Wales at the Venice Biennale of Art.
This new collaboration between Wales at the Venice Biennale and Cywaith Cymru was openly advertised and selected from artists applying from Wales, Britain and abroad. To be visible in Wales and relevant to local people in Venice were important aims, enhanced by Wales’ presence in Venice being on Giudecca Island and facilitated through the Nuova Icona Cultural Association.
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Denbigh Hospital Year 1, 2 and 3 |
| artist(s): Jenny Fell |
| Following the setting up of the Conwy and Denbighshire NHS Trust arts strategy, Cywaith Cymru . Artworks Wales were asked to help initiate two residencies at Denbigh and Glan Clwyd Hospitals. In 2003, Sian Hughes began work at Glan Clwyd (see separate entry) and Jenny Fell at Denbigh. Both artists were employed to help develop participation within the arts by patients, visitors and staff, and also to identify sites for exhibitions and then install temporary and permanent displays of the artwork produced. The aim was to improve patients’ experience and the environment of the hospitals through collaborative and participatory arts activity. |
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Glan Clwyd Hospital Years 1, 2 and 3 |
| artist(s): Sian Hughes |
| This residency has been one half of a project taking place at the Glan Clywd and Denbigh Hospitals and led by artists Sian Hughes and Jenny Fell. The residency was set up as part of a larger initiative and extensive three-year plan developed by Denbighshire Arts, which has included the purchase of Arts Karts and the creation of permanent and semi-permanent exhibition areas in the hospitals. The residencies were set up to help enhance the experience of patients, staff and visitors to the hospitals, enabling the resident artists to develop collaborative and participatory activities, and produce artwork that improved time spent in the hospital, and also the physical environment of the buildings. |
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MAY YOU PARTICIPATE IN A DIGITAL WORLD |
| artist(s): Scanner |
| As part of Cardiff’s inaugural festival of creative technology MAY YOU LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES, artist and musician Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner has been artist in residence on the BBC North Wales Hysbys, a mobile touring multi media studio bus. Working on the residency MAY YOU PARTICPATE IN A DIGITAL WORLD, Scanner has been visiting various locations in towns and schools in North Wales and doing interviews with a diverse mix of people, asking about the Welsh language, and its importance. He has asked people to speak about their favourite Welsh words, their sounds and meanings, and also about their favourite things. Scanner has taken samples from these recordings, building and producing a programme of podcasts, digitally mixed recordings of the interviews, then made available on the Festival website, and also accessible through the BBC website. |
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Cwlwm Glaslyn - People and Landscape |
| artist(s): Naomi Leake |
| Cwlwm Glaslyn is a major consortium of some 27 active local community groups in the Beddgelert area of Snowdonia, large areas of which are now owned and managed by the National Trust. The use and understanding of the land by local residents and communities is different from its use and understanding by visitors and tourists. The aim of this artist-in-residence project was to help raise awareness of peoples’ relationship to landscape, giving form to ideas of the land as factory floor for rural workers or wilderness landscape for visitors. Artist-in-residence Naomi Leake worked with the communities in the locality to produce an illustrated publication and an outdoor sculpture. |
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Good Ideas - Gloria Days |
| artist(s): Marc Rees |
| Marc Rees was awarded a Good Ideas grant by Cywaith Cymru in 2006 to research the life of the 5th Marquis of Anglesey, Henry Cyril Paget, known as 'The Dancing Marquis'. The focus of the research was the Butterfly Dance, a community driven event originally organised by the Marquis involving the local people of Anglesey. The intention was to unearth and investigate a relatively little known piece of extraordinary Welsh history, re-imagine it and create a memorable, honourable contemporary artwork with the community at the forefront of its making. |
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Artists@Work: Laura Ashley |
| artist(s): Philippa Lawrence |
| Philippa Lawrence was awarded an Artist@Work grant from Cywaith Cymru in 2003. Her idea initially was to work with Laura Ashley’s production unit TEXPLAN in Newtown, investigating the multiple and image in repeat. Through her fascination for pattern, Philippa aimed to work alongside the Laura Ashley team to understand and learn about commercial large-scale printing for furnishings and wallpapers with the view to developing her own designs into a short production run. |
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Conwy Estuary Strategic Route |
| artist(s): Claire Barber |
| Claire Barber was taken on as artist-in-residence for Conwy Estuary as part of a large development project run by Conwy County Borough Council, creating a strategic path and cycle route. The final route has been designed to create improved access along the banks of the Estuary, running from Llandudno’s West Shore, with a link via the RSPB Nature Reserve to Glan Conwy. The aim of the residency was to engage with the local people and visitors to the area, and to initiate research and development of themes and ideas for a series of commissioned artworks to be made for the dual use pathway. |
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Barclays Targetted Group at Canolfan Padarn |
| artist(s): Anna Roebuck |
| Canolfan Padarn is a day care centre for adults with learning difficulties run by Ceredigion County Council. The aim of the residency was for the artist to develop innovative work with the users of the centre to brighten up the entrance and the road leading into the centre which is well hidden by being behind the ambulance station. Anna Roebuck was appointed for the short residency (six weeks) to create this work. She fitted in very well with the centre's keen pro recycling policy as all her work is made from recycled plastic. |
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Ysbyty Gwynedd Artist in Residence Project |
| artist(s): Nancy Evans |
| Arts in health can play a major part in creating an attractive, non-threatening and welcoming environment in hospitals, encouraging feelings of well being and comfort. This is a pilot residency in collaboration with Ysbyty Gwynedd, Gwynedd County Council and Cywaith Cymru for a period of six months with textile artist Nancy Evans working primarily on the children’s ward creating participatory art work with patients and staff. |
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Holyhead Town Centre |
| artist(s): Tom Goddard |
| Isle of Anglesey County Council has been undertaking major redevelopment work in Holyhead involving the improvement of access from the ferry terminal and train station across a newly commissioned Celtic Gateway Bridge link into the town centre. As part of a further £4M European and Local Regeneration Fund aided scheme, Holyhead town centre was also identified for attention, inspiring a scheme to create a series of newly commissioned artwork, way-marking to various key sites in the town, and general improvements to the rather run-down town centre environment. |
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Breakwater Country Park |
| artist(s): Patricia Jones |
| Breakwater Country Park is situated on the outskirts of Holyhead town centre, directly on the coast, in a former quarry site. It is key to Holyhead’s past and present, being the location from which millions of tonnes of stone were quarried to create the breakwater that forms the safety barrier for Holyhead port. The breakwater was completed in 1876, and subsequently the Park became the site for a brickworks. Isle of Anglesey County Council then acquired the land after the brickworks shut down. The Park’s industrial past is still very much in evidence, and as well as being historically very rich, the Park has a fantastic natural resonance, supporting extensive wildlife, both on land and on the seacoast. |
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Merioneth Paradoxides |
| artist(s): Jim Sadler |
| The first of two commissions organised by Barmouth Environmental Group and Public Art Wales, Jim Sadler’s ‘Trilobite’ in stainless steel has recently been installed in Orielton Wood in Barmouth. |
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Wales at the Venice Biennale 2007 |
| artist(s): Elen Bonner and Pascal-Michel Dubois |
| Elen Bonner and Pascal-Michel Dubois were selected to work with Heather & Ivan Morison, two of the four artists representing Wales at the Venice Biennale 2007. This was the second time Cywaith Cymru has been involved in a project at the Biennale, creating further opportunity for artists from Wales to be part of one of the most prestigious events in the contemporary visual arts calendar. |
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