How we are

Private View - Friday 17th November 18:00 to 20:00
Exhibition Continues - 20th November to 1st December
Open from Monday to Friday, 11:00 to 17:00
CBAT Gallery, 123 Bute Street, Cardiff CF10 5AE

Robin Dring, Mark Foster, Helen French, Bee Holmes, Adam Hoskins, David Jones, Vincent Kavanagh, Tanya Moulson, Joanne McNally, Eleanor Parsons, Gemma Pearce, Helen Riley, Kimberley Rodgers, Catherine Taylor, Morgan Woodward.

‘How we are’ is a set of photographs and photographically constructed artworks from a collective of young image-makers who share a curiosity about ‘how things are’ - effectively the state of things now.

The linking concerns of space, place, people and object are explored and analysied through various processes and publication strategies that results in an array of arresting and immediate imagery.

These emerging artists create work that is positioned within a context of contemporary photographic practice whilst also observing and responding intuitively to notions of society and environment.

Each individual work is a contribution towards a more sustained and expansive photographic practice and ‘How we are’ is the first step in defining that process of development.
This exhibition is a clear indication of things to come.

Supported by the Newport School of Art, Media and Design, University of Wales, Newport.

For further information: sarah.pace@cbat.co.uk

Carmarthen Gateways

CBAT is delighted to announce the launch of a new six-metre high gateway sculpture for Carmarthenshire County Council. Created by Andrew Rowe ‘Oak Tree’ which is positioned at the Llangunnor roundabout in Carmarthen is part of a series of gateways to the town with an aim of making Carmarthen more attractive for visitors and residents.

Carmarthen Town Forum was behind the scheme which was facilitated by the County Council and supported by The Welsh Assembly who provided the major proportion of the funding for the scheme through its Environment Fund and as part of the Department for Enterprise, Innovation and Networks (DEIN) Landscape Working for Wales Strategy.

Two artists were commissioned by CBAT for the Forum, County Council and Welsh Assembly to create concept design’s and the design by Meidrim based Andrew Rowe was selected for implementation.

The new sculpture forms part of the second phase of the gateway scheme – phase one was completed last year at a cost of £60,000 with the landscaping around and on the Tywi ford roundabout and conservation railings.

The council’s regeneration executive board member Cllr Clive Scourfield said:

“This is new territory for the county council in developing not just an attractive gateway with use of creative landscaping but to embellish it with a piece of distinctive and iconic artwork that will help make a visit to Carmarthen more memorable and unique”

“The Town Forum, Llangunnor Community Council and the Welsh Assembly have worked very constructively with us to take that extra step into creative improvement of the public realm.”

Wiard Sterk Director of CBAT said:

“CBAT is delighted to be working with Carmarthenshire County Council on the commissioning of a series of public art works in the borough of which Andrew’s work is the first to be launched. We are looking forward to developing further works on 3 sites situated along the A484 at Loughor Bridge, North Dock, and Burry Port”

The installation of the artwork took place on Sunday 12th November with an official Press Launch on Monday 13th November when a formal unveiling took place.

For further information please contact: Aldo Rinaldi at CBAT on 029 2048 8772 aldo.rinaldi@cbat.co.uk

CBAT The Arts & Regeneration Agency speak at Zagreb's annual Urban Festival, Croatia.

CBAT was invited by UrbanFestival 2006, Gliptoteka HAZU and The Association of Croatian Architects to speak at their conference entitled "Public space in change" which took place on 7th and 8th of September 2006. The objective was to discuss and analyse the disappearance of public space and to encourage dialogue between art historians, artists, architects, urbanists, sociologists and activists in the creation of new public spaces. Along side the discussions ran an ambitious and exciting multimedia projects comprising performances, art installations and urban interventions by performing and visual artists in abandoned, out-of use locations in the ex-industrial zone of eastern Zagreb. The festival organisers chose pieces which specifically address urban issues, performed by local and international artists who attempted to actively change the urban landscape and human behaviour patterns.

Coordinated and funded by Wales Arts International, CBAT and Gliptoteka, Project Manager Emma Price, discussed Wales’s and the UK experiences in commissioning art in the public realm and working with artists, architects and local communities. CBAT has been asked to return next year to take part in further discussions and is continuing an exciting exchanging of information with the local government, artist, architects and curators in Zagreb in their quest to establish the first public art agency in Croatia.

For further information contact Emma Price, 029 2048 8772 / emma.price@cbat.co.uk / http://www.cbat.co.uk/