Certain Welsh Artists
Author: Iwan Bala
Publisher: Seren Books
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 224
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The Blade Artist
Author: Irvine Welsh
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2016-04-07
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1473520967
DOWNLOAD EBOOK‘Back to his violent best...dark, gruesome and captivating’ Esquire The most terrifying character from Trainspotting returns. Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life – and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. Some say he’s a fake and a con man, while others see him as a genuine visionary. But Francis has a very dark past, with another identity and a very different set of values. When he crosses the Atlantic to his native Scotland, for the funeral of a murdered son he barely knew, his old Edinburgh community expects him to take bloody revenge. But as he confronts his previous life, all those friends and enemies – and, most alarmingly, his former self – Francis seems to have other ideas. When Melanie discovers something gruesome in California, which indicates that her husband’s violent past might also be his psychotic present, things start to go very bad, very quickly. The Blade Artist is an elegant, electrifying novel – ultra violent but curiously redemptive – and it marks the return of one of modern fiction’s most infamous, terrifying characters, the incendiary Francis Begbie from Trainspotting.
Art for Wales
Author: David Moore
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Published: 2020-09-01
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 1913634914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn invaluable reflection on the legacy of Derek Williams (1929-1984), a Cardiff surveyor whose generous bequest of his art collection and entire net estate coincided with a reappraisal of the role and workings of the National Museum of Wales and led to the formation of the Derek Williams Trust in 1992. Concise, insightful chapters by writer and curator David Moore examine the quality and variety of artworks assembled by Derek Williams or supported by the activity of the Trust over a period of over 25 years, ranging from painting to ceramics, photography and digital media. Illustrated with a wealth of artworks from the Trust s collection and related exhibitions.
Welsh Artists Talking to Tony Curtis
Author: Tony Curtis
Publisher: Seren Books
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781854112866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new collection of interviews with artists from Wales is further evidence of the current renaissance of the visual arts in the country. The ten artists talking to Tony Curtis vary in practice from figurative and abstract painters through a ceramicist to sculptors in stone, wood and metal. Their work and words provide, at once, a history of 20th-century art in Wales and a guide to making in the 21st century. Welsh Artists Talking includes perhaps the final interview given by the late Alfred Janes, friend of Dylan Thomas, whose career spanned 60 years. His contemporary Jonah Jones talks about the artist as artisan, while at the other end of the age spectrum Brendan Stuart Burns reflects on the influence of location on his work. The book also includes David Nash, the internationally acclaimed sculptor, and artists such as Christine Jones and Robert Harding, whose reputations are beginning to burgeon. Like its predecessor, Welsh Painters Talking, this new book explores the relationship between art and place, identity, spirituality and the market place. With their emphasis on working practice and on historical context these interviews are an invaluable record.
Clarence Whaite and the Welsh Art World
Author: Peter Lord
Publisher: Don Hale
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1907163069
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 1971-86 Peter Lord worked primarily as a sculptor but has since worked mainly as an art historian. He is currently a research fellow at the University of Wales, Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies and has produced three volumes under the collective title of The Visual Culture of Wales. This book describes the early days of the Royal Cambrian Academy.
Welsh Stick Chairs
Author: John Brown
Publisher:
Published: 2009-05-14
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780854420834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work provides an insight into the history of Welsh stick chairs and includes instructions on how to make a chair, covering methods of bending the wood for chair construction. Illustrations show each stage in the building process.
Welsh Artists One
Author: Glynn Vivian Art Gallery (Swansea)
Publisher:
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 48
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 86
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOfferings + Reinventions
Author: Iwan Bala
Publisher: Seren Books
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781854112804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith iconographic zeal, Iwan Bala shifts his hallmark imagery onto a new three dimensional level with the exhibition and book, Offerings + Reinventions. In a typically forthright and self-revelatory essay he traces his artistic development, acknowledges crucial international influences from Zimbabwean sculpture to the Cuban Santeria tradition and expands on the theory of Custodial Aesthetics first expounded in Certan Welsh Artists. Inventive, poetic, politicised, Bala confirms his position as one of the most radical and influential artists working in Wales, combining as he does the mythological inheritance of Wales and other countries with painting and installation.
Performing Wales
Author: Lisa Lewis
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2018-05-15
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1786832445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeginning from the premise that culture can be analysed as performance, this study approaches Welsh culture as performative practice and explores four distinct cultural areas – the Museum, Heritage, Festival and Theatre – concentrating on how they contribute to a shared sense of identity among participants. Through specific examples, the author traces the way cultural performance in Wales both creates and sustains specific relationships between people, memory and place, revealing reflections of ourselves and constituting our remembrances of others and of history. The discussion emphasizes the significance of performance in voicing issues of identity within a peripheral context – a position informed by the author’s own perspective as a bilingual Welsh and English speaker.
