How we are
20 November – 01 December 2006
Exhibition of work by 15 young photographic practitioners:
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.
Supported by the University of Wales, Newport.
Private View: Friday 17th November 6–8pm
For the duration of this exhibition the gallery will also be open on Mondays.
URBAN LEGACIES II: Another New Babylon
5th October - 31st October 2006
Marjetica Potrc \ Veronika Valk \ Anthony Shapland \ Layla Curtis \ Bernard Khoury \ Morgan Hayes
This exhibition acts as information point for the public projects in Cardiff Bay, commissioned by CBAT as part of the Urban Legacies II: Another New Babylon conference, and provides a space for a further investigation into the lines of enquiry made by the artists involved. The show includes initial sketches, plans, case studies of other projects, home-made publications, objects and ephemera associated with the making the temporary public projects possible.
Marjetica Potrc’s Power Tools for Urban Explorers examine the notion of urban independence, providing alternatives for our everyday activities. These include a clockwork mobile telephone charger; a prototype micro air vehicle for travel; a portable water filter and solar panels for your laptop. These are presented alongside Potrc’s own idiosyncratic drawings outlining urban issues such as the shift in urban population through tourism, squatters and commuters; a set of 8 drawings as part of the Barefoot College Case Study.
Veronika Valk has produced Urban Play / Guerrilla Design, a 25-page ‘urban self help guide an how to reconstruct your city in 30 days’, which will be distributed across Cardiff and available for free from the gallery. The guide gives ideas on how individuals can improve the quality of city life through small simple interventions. These include covering traffic lights with love heart shaped filters; liaising with colleagues at work to send messages from your tower block; also creating temporary inflatable cinemas and hotels, the project Valk has undertaken in the old Nat West Bank on Bute St.
Anthony Shapland has also produced a small booklet, which contains the ‘script’ from 12 encounters, the public project he has undertaken for Urban Legacies II. This will be shown alongside the work in the gallery as well as one of the transmitters / receivers which recorded a disturbing and humorous insight into Cardiff’s nightlife.
Alongside the artists who are undertaking the temporary public projects, CBAT is pleased to show work by two additional artists.
Commissioned by Locus+, Layla Curtis’ NewcastleGateshead is a collaged map compiled from regional namesakes taken from city maps worldwide. In the form of a generic folded map, the collage mimics the existing, familiar structure of the region. Composed of all the Monktons, Wallsends, Heatons etc. across the globe, the collage layers various map-sections into a multiplex of Newcastle-Gateshead. Like any other city visitors map NewcastleGateshead provides a full map index and advertises things to do and see.
Finally, Bernard Khoury (who is speaking at the Urban
Legacies conference) will be exhibiting his celebrated B018, showing
revellers coming an going out of the infamous and literally underground
night club in Beirut.
An accompanying resource library will be available in the gallery to provide background information and further reading.
CBAT would like to thank: Max Protech Gallery, New York; Nordenhake Gallery, Berlin; Locus +, Newcastle; Modern Art Oxford; Picture This, Bristol; Mayled Homes and Gardens, Penarth, Orbit Construction, Cardiff; Green Machine, Cardiff; Cardiff Glass Ltd; Weyhauser Europe Ltd; Robert Chapman & Company, Cardiff; Chapter Art Centre, Cardiff; DW5, Beirut. [CBAT is supported by the Arts Council of Wales and Cardiff County Council)
FROM THE EDGE
02 - 25 May 2006
An exhibition of work by four artists living and working in Kansas City – Cecilia Bakker, Laura Berman, Hammerpress and Hugh Merrill – presents the art of printmaking through a selection of unique and original styles and techniques. Their work is featured amongst that of 45 international artists in Richard Noyce’s book ‘Printmaking at the Edge’, which explores the innovative techniques printmakers are using today. The book includes work and interviews with prominent international artists, revealing the secrets behind their work and the possibilities for the future, incorporating a worldwide list of artists from the UK, Europe, North America, the Far East, Australia, Argentina, Nicaragua, Lithuania, Iceland and Iraq. Richard Noyce lives and works in Powys, and this is his third book on contemporary visual art.
‘Printmaking at the Edge’ will be on sale at CBAT Gallery for
the duration of the exhibition and is published by A&C Black priced £35
(ISBN 0 7136 6784 2).
Jonathan Morris
Blend
14-22 April 2006
Showcasing the unique perspective of conceptual designer Jonathan Morris, Blend explores organic forms and journeys into the unpredictable world of computer errors.
First featured in Shift, the on-line Japanese creative showcase, Microsea takes us into a surreal world of digital microscopic forms. An intriguing process of lost data inspires Error Recovery, a collection of images reconstructed from corrupted files. The unreadable language of printing errors is transformed into a series of intriguing surface patterns. Creatively driven by his personal studies, Jonathan’s self initiated projects provide the freedom to explore new techniques, which in turn fuel his commercial design studio Sweet, based in Cardiff Bay.
Blend is sponsored by Sweet
www.sweetcreative.co.uk
www.shift.jp.org
Nicholas Charles Williams
Still Lifes & Prints
14 March – 07 April 2006
Williams has earned a reputation as one of Britain's foremost realist painters. His approach to observational painting is no less rigorous as other British realists before him such as Meredith Frampton, Euan Uglow and Lucian Freud but Williams' naturalism is often combined with a symbolic subtext. At the centre of his work is a fascination with human behaviour, its drives and forces.
The exhibition at CBAT Gallery is the first presentation of Williams' work in Wales. In contrast to some of the huge canvases that Williams has made in recent years this exhibition concentrates on a series of relatively small and carefully considered still life.
Process
2 March- 22 March 2006
A new exhibition of work from the Wrexham Regional Print Centre at Yale College, North Wales.
'Process' demonstratesa range of both traditional and experimental print formats and is touring throughout venues across Wales.
Borderlines
31 January - 24 February 2006
Peter Ford RE, RWA, is one of a number of artists whose work is featured in ‘Prints Now – Directions and Definitions’, a new book to be published in the summer of 2006 by Victoria and Albert Museum Publications. Borderlines presents a compact survey of the different directions that Peter’s artwork has taken in recent years. The most notable changes have followed from his enthusiastic adoption of hand papermaking in 1995. In some works here he has used his own paper on which to print or as a medium in its own right. Paper castings from the surfaces of stone, wood and other materials are the starting point for subtle works that hover between painting, drawing and printmaking.
ART-PRINT-UK-NOW
22 October – 19 November 2005
Over the past twelve months the Print Market Workshop has curated five shows
at CBAT Gallery with the aim of developing a fine art print profile in South
Wales and to bring the work of national, and international print makers to
Wales. For this show the Dundee Contemporary Arts Print Studio (Scotland),
Leicester and Northern Print Studio (England) and the Seacourt Print Workshop
(Northern Ireland) have been invited to exhibit with the Print Market Workshop
in Wales.
Ritual Theatre
3 September - 13 October 2005
This exhibition was kindly supported by VINCI PLC to mark the completion
of a new public artwork by Amber Hiscott and David Pearl in Callaghan Square,
Cardiff.
100 International Bookplates
23 July- 25 August 2005
An exhibition of 100 bookplate designs from Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Bulgaria,
China, Japan and the UK from the collection of artist Peter Ford. The show
was a touring exhibition from Off-Centre Gallery, Bristol, brought to CBAT
Gallery by Pete Williams and Lou Thornton of the Print Market Workshop.
Building Blocks: Cardiff 05 - 55
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June - 15 July 2005
2005 sees Cardiff celebrating one hundred years a city and fifty years as
the capital of Wales. What do we think about our capital now in 2005? What
kind of capital might we envisage 15, 25 or even 50 years from now in 2055? In
a series of workshops the Design Commission in partnership with Cardiff County
Council, worked with young people at Grangetown Primary School and Fitzalan
High School Cardiff, to explore our city as it is now, the legacy we might
leave for future generations and the kind of city we might look forward to
in 2055. Some of the results of these explorations were exhibited at
the CBAT Gallery.
Imprint is the second of these exhibitions and features work by students
on the BA (Hons) Surface Pattern Design/ Contemporary Applied Arts Practice
course at Swansea Institute.
When we are
6 May- 14 June 2005
When we are... is the first of two exhibitions showcasing new work by second
and third year art students - in this instance, by second year Fine Art students
from Coleg Sirgâr of West Wales.
Editions 3/3
5 April - 3 May 2005
Editions 3/3 is a contemporary print making exhibition showing the work of three artists who have transferred their traditional printmaking skills into new areas, including illustration, sculpture and painting. It is the third of a series of five shows organised by Pete Williams and Lou Thornton of the Print Market Workshop, to be held at the CBAT Gallery in Cardiff Bay.
Works on display include Christopher Nurse's paintings of nativity scenes
made of biscuits, vegetables, paper cut outs, knitting, plasticine and Christmas
ornaments, Steve Hyslop's four-poster bed and Arnold Nisbet's paintings derived
from computer generated imagery.
Download Edition 3/3 Press Release as PDF
Present
13 November- 18 December 2004
This the second of a series of five shows organised by Pete Williams and
Lou Thornton of the Print Market Workshop, to be held at the CBAT Gallery
in Cardiff Bay. The exhibition contains work from Cardiff to Brighton, and
Newcastle to Aberystwyth, covering a wide and diverse range of print resources,
challenging our own interpretation of what contemporary print really is.
Baggage & Boxes
8 October - 4 November 2004
This the first of a series of five shows organised by Pete Williams and Lou Thornton of the Print Market Workshop, to be held at the CBAT Gallery in Cardiff Bay. The first exhibition will showcase their own work with subsequent exhibitions showing a range of print related works.
This first exhibition highlights Pete and Lou's own work, concentrating on
contemporary forms of printmaking and drawing. This exhibition aims to extend
the possibilities of traditional formats by developing work created from a
range of print sources.
You’re the devil in me
Collection of unnamed artists
23 – 25 September 2004
This exhibition is an art project commissioned by Youth Offending Team Cardiff, which focuses on substance misuse within youth culture.
When rave culture is put into a larger framework, such as a society and era, many similarities can be found between the rave culture and the cannabis culture of the 60’s. Both were part of a wide and profound societal change. But unlike cannabis culture, rave culture is dynamic, varied and constantly renewing itself. It adapts to the changes in society in a way that the more uniform cannabis culture could not. Even if the drug use part of rave culture is rebellious, in its deepest core it is not about mere rebellion. Rave culture represents those values that are most prominent in the western society: emphasis on individuality, faith in technology, aesthetics, desire to experience things. Drug use in the context of rave culture can even be paralleled with the ever-more-common belief that a human being’s psyche can and even should be moulded chemically, through advanced neurological means or with the help of psycho-pharmaceutical medication.
Drug use that originated with rave culture is, however, not limited to rave
culture. Drug use has become part of recreational partying for other youth
groups. In Europe recreational drug use is already considered to be part of
the life of normal adolescents and young adults. As fashion trends and youth
cultures exert a growing influence on our culture, the phenomenon is becoming
obvious also here and it is reasonable to assume that it will continue to
advance.
Ain’t no love in the heart of the city…
6 May - 10 June 2004
Ain’t no love in the heart of the city places contemporary artists in found spaces in Cardiff for a series of temporary public art projects to coincide with the Urban Legacies conference on May 6th & 7th 2004 organised by CBAT the Arts & Regeneration Agency.
Artists: Richard Deacon, Alberto Duman, Pat Flynn, KO Lab, (Kendall Geers),
Simon Pope, Richard Powell, Claire Price, Peter Liversidge, Lyndsay Mann,
Nils Norman, Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan, Jennie Savage, Richard
Higlett.
Osmosis
12 February - Friday 26 March 2004
This exhibition, initiated by Cargo in Almere, the Netherlands, extends CBAT’s
relationship with the outstanding Dutch artist, Jeroen van Westen. The
show is accompanied by an essay by Wiard Sterk.
Download Osmosis essay as PDF
CBAT Ex Cardiff
20 November - 18 December 2003
An exhibition, sponsored by the WDA, documenting completed projects and works
in progress in Wolverhampton, Market Rasen and the Blaenau Gwent towns of
Ebbw Vale, Brynmawr, Cwm and Llanhilleth.
Coastlines
13 May - 20 June 2003
Lucie Graham is a young, local artist who has been sponsored by Arts & Business
Cymru and Arup to develop a partnership with business. The exhibition includes
25 original works in acrylic paint and 4 works commissioned by Arup.
Going Wrong
28 March - 1 May 2003
The first exhibition in Wales of the work of Will Bishop-Stephens.
Introspective
11 October - 15 November 2002
Kiran Ridley has developed a photographic style concerned with humanising
subject matter and maximising sensitivity to the subject, very often revealing
the depth of the ‘human condition‘ in every day occurrences. Whether
observing daily life among the fisher men and women of Sri Lanka, joining
US customs officials in pursuit of drug traffickers on the Mexican border,
recording the last of the Coracle men of Wales or catching Tony Blair mid-conference,
Ridley demonstrates considerable maturity of approach and composition. This
exhibition includes recent projects with world famous performers Cirque de
Soleil and the Chinese State Circus and showcases a comprehensive new body
of work.
Abstracts II Series
Michael Mortimer Robinson
30 August - 27 September 2002
Michael Mortimer Robinson has produced an extensive range of design commissions
for national and international clients. Having also travelled extensively
throughout Europe, he now paints mainly abstract work depicting the interplay
of light and colour in poignant, balanced compositions. This exhibition
showcases some of his most recent work.
Abstracts II Series
Julia Brooker – Light Touch
16 July - 23 August 2002
Julia Brooker’s Light Touch exhibition was the result of collaboration between CBAT and architects Powell Dobson Partnership, enabled by sponsorship from Arts & Business Cymru.
Julia Brooker’s paintings comprise sheet aluminium, the surface of
which is painted in horizontal bands of bright colour. The reflective aluminium
throws the pigment into weightlessness, allowing colour to envelope the senses.
The paintings are brought to life with light.
