News
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22/10/2009 Artist, Marc Rees, wins £230,000 London 2012 Cultural Olympiad commission
Arts Council of Wales in partnership with Arts Council England and London 2012 announced today, that Marc has been selected as the Wales winner of a prestigious £230,000 commission for Artists taking the lead, one of the major projects for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
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22/10/2009 David Nash is shipping out.
Containers are loaded with Nash's big logs - to be shipped from California to the UK.
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22/10/2009 May You Live In Interesting Times at the new Chapter
Today the festival for the creative use of 'do it yourself' technology opened at the newly refurbished Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff.
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16/10/2009 Melt
A rare public opportunity to witness discarded iron being melted down and recycled into cast iron sculptures. The team from West Wales School of the Arts poured 250 kilos of molten iron into various moulds, both complex and simple, during an intense and dramatic period of activity.
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14/10/2009 Big Wood, Big Saw.
David Nash at work this week in California.
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12/10/2009 Colony Pioneer risks arrest
Culture Colony - Y Wladfa Newydd Pioneer Graeme Furley projected Greenpeace's statement 'Change the Politics, Save the Climate' onto the Houses of Parliament tonight.
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09/10/2009 Artists from Albania, Bulgaria, Israel, Kyrgyzstan, Peru, Russia and Taiwan on shortlist for UK’s biggest contemporary art prize.
The eight artists from around the world who have been shortlisted for Artes Mundi 4 were announced today.
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09/10/2009 The PRINTHAUS opens its doors
Tucked away just off Llandaff Road, in what was Vaughns Laundry, the PRINTHAUS has been established to provide a printmaking workshop and new opportunities for artists.
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25/09/2009 The Morisons take the Cultural Olympiad on the road
In their bid for the Cultural Olympiad, Heather and Ivan Morison take the House Truck to remote Welsh communities to canvasse opinion.
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18/09/2009 The National Library of Wales opens the North Reading Room
The National Library of Wales' North Reading Room was closed for refurbishment in March 2008. Today it was officially re-opened by Alun Ffred Jones A.M. the Minister for Heritage and Culture.