Blue Ocean/Glas Cefnfor Funded by DAC & Arts Council Wales
Current exhibition 2023
Blue Ocean/Glas Cefnfor Works in Progress
At The Studio Chapter, Arts Centre, Cardiff, CF5 1QE Sunday 19th March, 12pm – Tuesday 21st March, 4pm
My line of enquiry, research and best practice in relation to this field were guided by the current United Nations Ocean Literacy brief that aims to generate comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the ocean, including how human interactions and consumption speed the decline of our One big Ocean and coastlines. I will look to bring an increase of ocean knowledge and understanding, that could lead to communities developing capacity to contribute to sustainable development solutions on their own coastlines across Europe.
Blue Ocean/Glas Cefnfor Still Images
Image Credit Rob Ford
Image Credit Emma Frayne-Ford
Image Credit Rob Ford
Image Credit Rob Ford
Image Credit Ayshea Martyn
Image Credit Ayshea Martyn
Image Credit Rob Ford
Image Credit Rob Ford
Image Credit Emma Frayne-Ford
Image Credit Ayshea Martyn
Image Credit Rob Ford
Image Credit Emma Frayne-Ford
Image Credit Rob Ford
Image Credit Rob Ford
Image Credit Emma Frayne-Ford
Image Credit Emma Frayne-Ford
Image Credit Rob Ford
Image Credit Rob Ford
Past Exhibition
At the beginning of 2022 12 Still images from my experimental moving image project Beautiful were accepted by Jemma Jacobs the Chief Curator of the online gallery artvocate.co. The online gallery also provides a link to the full moving image project Beautiful so this can also be viewed alongside my art work. This work has also been chosen and will be featured in an upcoming exhibition in London and Athens. Artvocate and The Holy Art Gallery are hosting their launch event between September 30th and October 2nd to celebrate their recent expansion: and then the exhibition `Not on Paper art exhibition and artist talks' is forecast to be taken to the Athens gallery in November 2022
https://artvocate.co/pages/not-on-paper-platform-launch-x-activist-art-exhibition
Past Exhibition
My moving image project titled GALLERY OF INDISCERNIBLES, 2022 was selected by the Society of Scottish Artists – a dynamic and inclusive organisation with a growing community of more than 1600 members based all over the world. The project was selected for the “Drift” exhibition - A shifting movement or aimless direction, casual deviations, a wandering curated by Su Grierson & Lindsay Perth and was premiered at Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PL on the 9th September 2022 and then I was chosen as an online exhibitor to be exhibited online 16th September -16th October https://www.s-s-a.org/drift-online-exhibition/
"Life though the Curvilinear lens"
Funded by Arts Council Wales
This Moving Image project "Lens" has captured the everyday life of the residents of Canton and given the viewer a glance of this unique community going about their daily lives. Lens was conceptualised with the view to celebrate the waves of humanity that have shaped this districts diverse culture and the thriving community of the district of (CARDIFF) Canton.
Stills from Lens
Gallery of Indiscernibles
When will the Art World start to become more accessible?
Inclusive?
Or do we have to create our own space?
During lockdown local teenagers decided to create their own art gallery in the abandoned and derelict Boys Village.
This Village was built for the Sons of Miners and the village offered the children respite from the polluted and unhealthy atmosphere of the Valleys industrial towns.
Opened on August 8, 1925.
Time Loss Motion
Time Loss Motion - This moving image project was born out of grief: how does an artist attempt to convey a sense of grief within their art form? I shot “Time Loss Motion” over a three week period which began when my mum was put on end-of-life care and ended when she passed. My son and I would visit mum at home then go to the beach afterwards to help digest what we were feeling.
Beautiful
My first Moving Image project "Beautiful" was a combination of dance movement and the poetry of gay civil rights activist Pauli Murray. This moving image project is a combination of poetry and dance. It pays homage to her tireless struggles for women's rights and her driving need for change, equality and the right to express our sexuality.