Smokingbrush

55 artists walking the dark side of the street Devised and edited by Lyndon Watkinson @SU4IP Jo Jo Johnson: Puppet discovered. acrylic and oil on canvas 125x90cm 2023 Glenn Ibbitson is a painter, collage artist, and filmmaker operating in the Western figurative tradition. His works tend to address a range of socio-political issues,  carried as subtext below the surface of ostensibly…

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Winter Issue | N16 | December 2022 Glenn Ibbitson A painter, collagist, printmaker, filmmaker, and graphic novelist. Glenn originally studied as a fine art painter and was trained at BBC Television Centre [London] as a scenic painter; producing portraits and backdrops for programs as diverse as Newsnight, Match of the Day, Later with Jools Holland and of course, Blue Peter [though he was…

Cynon Valley Film Festival: 2022

Nigel Evans; Director of the CYFF’22 “You may think you know what you are dealing with, but believe me, you don’t..” Nigel Evans. You just don’t know what the guy is going to be up to next. Songwriter and performer, scriptwriter and film maker, exhibition photographer, poet, D.J, writer; probably more. He’s done ‘em all, and now he can add film festival director to his creative folio. The…

The Orwell inspired film ‘Thought Police 4891’; featuring Attic Artists Melanie Davies, Claire Woolley and Louise Mary Weldon, has been selected for the Cynon Valley Film Festival.Friday 14th – Sunday 16th October, 2022St Elvan’s Church, Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK, CF44 7AB‘Thought Police 4891’ will be screened on the Saturday; time to be finalised.

The Orwell inspired film ‘Thought Police 4891’; featuring Attic Artists Melanie Davies, Claire Woolley and Louise Mary Weldon, has been selected for the Cynon Valley Film Festival.Friday 14th – Sunday 16th October, 2022St Elvan’s Church, Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK, CF44 7AB‘Thought Police 4891’ will be screened on the Saturday; time to be finalised.

Inspired by the Polar Bear

Two pieces of art which draw upon the Polar Bear for their inspiration; one a meditation on the destruction of the Polar Bear’s environment using vintage imagery designed by Fox’s Glacier Mints; the other a specific tribute to Misha, who for many years was incarcerated in a concrete enclosure at Bristol Zoo. “The manipulation of commercial packaging from readily identifiable brands to convey in…

Serving Supper @Attic Theatre

Attic Theatre’s latest culinary delight. “Just Supper” is as “finely fine as a fine thingy…” but be warned; “Its a bit weird though, isn’t it?” Think of a play based around a supper party and you might think of “Abigail’s Party”. This production stands favourable comparison with Mike Leigh’s work, but is closer in feel to “High Hopes” or “Another Year”,  with believably fallible characters…

Art of Climate Change @Seagull Gallery, Cardigan

A thumbnail sketch of gallery owner Louise Weldon and a preview of her climate crisis group exhibition at the Seagull Gallery in Cardigan @Pembrokeshire Online can be read here. http://pembrokeshire.online/2022/08/climate-change-the-seagull-gallery-cardigan-before-17th-if-possible-pleas Lou Weldon with a first sale of many in the Climate Change show @SeagullGallery Cardigan

STICKY FINGERS @OrielQ, Narberth

‘Sticky Fingers’ Is the latest exhibition now showing at Oriel Q in Narberth. Painter and printmaker Carole King is curator for this show of eighty prints. It is a show of original printwork ranging from etchings, through monotype and collagraph to serigraphs, from artists across Wales. Carole is not new to the business of show curating; she has arranged several solo shows, has co-curated the…

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