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Planning the fourth annual festival programme for October 2008 and will once again celebrate the design talent in Wales. We've got some added features on the website so that you can contribute and get involved. You can subscribe to have news and event details sent to you.

Shirley Anne Owen
Changing Coastline  7th- 31st October
Oriel Washington Gallery,  1-3 Washington Buildings,  Stanwell Road,  Penarth.

Changing Coastlines is an exhibition of 14 large-scale paintings and over 60 drawings - the result of a six-week period of research along the Welsh Coastline.
With the help of funding from The Arts Council of Wales, the research project was carried out during February and March 2008 when Shirley visited National Trust sites along the Welsh coastline threatened by the predicted rise in sea levels during the next century. The exhibition will also include a series of further explorations of the drawn mark, including dry point etchings and collagraphs of associated subjects.

Also exhibiting is ceramicist Becky Foster, whose body of work is inspired by her experience walking through landscapes, from which she picked out particularly the exposed jagged rock forms and flora. Their complex shapes explore the combination of raw form, delicateness, serenity and preciousness.

An exhibition of work not selected for Eisteddfod 08.
An unofficial extension to this year’s exhibition, celebrating the hotbed of
creativity which is our small nation.

To be opened by Osi Rhys Osmond on Friday 1st August 7pm.
@ tactileBOSCH, Andrews Road, Llandaff North, Cardiff, CF14 2JP.

With 'Barrie Hole's Hitlist presents Clark Clarks and the Size
9's', performing, making some noise and playing some records.

frameworkcontact@yahoo.co.uk
www.axisweb.org/artist/framework

'Most residents of Cardiff and the Vale have seen Flat Holm with its iconic lighthouse out in the heart of the Bristol Channel. Over the past few years an increasing number of people have visited the island itself, taking day-trips between March and October, to discover the fascinating nature and history of this island retreat.

Local artists from The Cardiff Drawing Group are now bringing a taste of the island back to Cardiff for the exhibition 'Island Echoes', which captures the wealth of personal artistic responses inspired by Flat Holm. 

The exhibition will run from Wednesday July the 9th until Saturday the 30th of August at the Cole & Co Gallery in Lochaber Street, Roath.
Island Echoes is an exhibition of Flat Holm inspired artworks: drawings, paintings, writings, photographs, textiles, sculptures and ideas for film.  The artists are from Cardiff Drawing Group, a collective of art, design and media professionals, who work within a wide variety of disciplines and regard drawing as an essential component of their creative practices.
The group describe Flat Holm as a strangely attractive little island off the coast of Cardiff that was for many centuries a refuge for saints, sinners, soldiers, sailors, smugglers, scientists and seagulls.

Cardiff Council's Executive Member for Sports, Leisure and Culture Nigel Howells said; "This is an excellent way to capture the spirit of Flat Holm and its appeal to the many who visit the island every year.  I would also encourage people to take the opportunity to go across to Flat Holm on one of the many day trips that run until the end of October 2008."

Rhonndda Heritage open - Details
http://www.rhonddaheritagepark.com/Shared/ForthcomingExhibitions0.aspx

ISLAND ECHOES

9th July to 30th August 2008: 

10 am - 6 pm, Tuesday to Saturday
Cole & Co Gallery
41 Lochaber St, Roath, Cardiff, CF24 3LS
Tel/Fax: 029 20473373

Flat Holm, a strangely attractive little island off the coast of Cardiff; it may be casually observed as the small, flattish island with the lighthouse, situated in the Bristol Channel. 

 For many centuries a refuge for saints, sinners, soldiers, sailors, smugglers, scientists and seagulls, the island resonates with rich layers of natural and human history. 

ISLAND ECHOES is an exhibition of Flat Holm inspired artworks: drawings, paintings, writings, photographs, textiles, sculptures and ideas for film.

The artists are from Cardiff Drawing Group, a collective of art, design and media professionals, who work within a wide variety of disciplines and regard drawing as an essential component of their creative practices.

For information about Island Echoes & Cardiff Drawing Group contact Stephanie Lowder (Exhibition Organiser):

Tel:  07514 960661
Email:  stephanie.lowder@btconnect.com
Visit:  http://www.cardiffdrawinggroup.co.uk.

 Private View:  Wednesday 9th July, 6-9 pm, to be opened by Glyn Jones of the Flat Holm Society.

We would like to thank the Flat Holm Project, Flat Holm Society and Trinity House for their support. Visit http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/flatholm for details of the voluntary work carried out on this local nature reserve, Geographical Conservation Review Site and Site of Special Scientific Interest.

University of Glamorgan - 2008 - Art Purchase Prize - Competition and Exhibition - Theme: 'The Land'
Deadline - 23 June 2008
FURTHER INFORMATION  -   WEBSITE    www.glam.ac.uk/gallery
or contact: Dr Ceri Thomas, Curator - University of Glamorgan Art Collections, Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd CF37 1DL, tel 01443 482077 (direct line) email cthomas1@glam.ac.uk

EXHIBITION - ABADARE - CYNON VALLEY MUSEUM & GALLERY
 Until June 28th
SUE ROBERTS - 'The contrast between real and constructed images of femininity.'  Western Mail

TABERNACLE ART COMPETITION 2008
Art Competition packs are available now
Please phone   01654 703355 - Mon - Sat   10am - 4pm. For details - go to
http://home2.btconnect.com/MOMAWALES/english/index.htm

St Dogmaels Gallery, High Street, St Dogmaels, Cardigan, Pembs., Wales SA43 3EJ.    tel: 01239 612677
email: saintdogmaelsgallery@hotmail.co.uk
http://www.saintdogmaelsgallery.com/ The gallery’s next show will be titled ‘LAND’
The show will run from 6/7th June, (t.b.c.), until the end of August.
If you would like to submit work, please e-mail/post images to the gallery by Tuesday 27th May.  If your work is selected for the show, it needs to be brought to the gallery by Tues 3rd June.

The Mall Galleries are championing innovation and excellence infigurative art by launching a brand new art prize designed toshowcase the best in new contemporary figurative art. Two major prizes offer the chance to win a total of £35,000: the£25,000 Threadneedle Figurative Prize and the £10,000 Federation ofBritish Artists Selectors' Choice.
The competition is open to all artists - established and emergingtalent - aged 18 and over living or working in the UK and approximately 60 works, selected from a national open submission,will be exhibited in the Mall Galleries' newly modernised space inAugust - September 2008.
Online registration is available now at   www.threadneedlefigurativeprize.com
The deadline for registration is Friday 20 June 2008.

Butetown History & Arts Centre present a series of Exhibitions and workshops during Carers Week 3/June/08 - 15/June/08
'The Two of Us' ­ by Sol Jorgensen. A brief glimpse into the lives of Sol Jorgensen and her son Seth who suffers from hypotonia and learning disabilities. This exhibition features beautifully crafted and sometimes painfully draw images by Sol together with her intimate poetry directly from the heart of a full time carer.

'After? - Portraits of Brain Injury Survivors'  by David Sinden
Photographs and life stories of people that have been directly affected by this misunderstood illness.