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Tigers & Dragons: India and Wales in Britain

Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea

Glynn Vivian Art Gallery is delighted to present Tigers & Dragons: India and Wales in Britain, an extraordinary exhibition that delves into the deep-rooted connections between the Indian Subcontinent and Wales.

Co-curated with Dr. Zehra Jumabhoy. 

Tigers & Dragons explores the iconography of South Asian nations and Wales; examining how they have imagined themselves—or been imagined—over the centuries. If India was the Jewel in the Imperial Crown, could we argue that Wales was England’s first colony? As Wales struggles for its identity within ‘British-ness’, it is timely to re-assess the way it contributed to, benefited from and, even, suffered for Britain’s Imperial ambitions. The show investigates the British Empire’s legacy and its continuing relevance for Welsh identity as well as for India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

The exhibition features over 100 artworks – paintings, photographs, performances, textiles, sculptural installations and new media – by roughly 70 artists from Wales, England, India and Pakistan. Historic and contemporary loans are drawn from private and public collections, including National Museum Cardiff, National Library Wales, National Trust’s Powis Castle and the Bristol Museum’s British Empire & Commonwealth Collection. Loans are supported by the Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund. Created by the Garfield Weston Foundation and Art Fund, the Weston Loan Programme is the first ever UK-wide funding scheme to enable smaller and local authority museums to borrow works of art and artefacts from national collections.

The exhibition traces the social and political complexities of the India-Wales relationship. Highlighting Imperial connections (through war, trade and language), it also probes other equivalences. If Wales is England’s Internal Colony, as India was once an External one, what can we learn from comparing the two? The exhibition considers the visual symbolism of both Imperial subjugation (the Indian Tiger dominated by the Lion of Britannia; the Red Welsh Dragon pitted against the White Dragon of England) and national awakening. Just as Indian independence movements were inspired by ideas of Mother India, similarly Welsh nationalism clings to the skirts of Mother Wales.

Artists Included: 

Adeela Suleman 

Aisha Khalid 

Alia Syed

Amna Walayat  

Anwar Shemza (1928-1985) 

Anju Dodiya 

Alfred Janes (1911-1999) 

Arthur Giardelli (1911-2009) 

Arthur William Devis (1763-1822) 

Bedwyr Williams 

Bushra Waqas Khan 

Bhupen Khakhar (1934-2003) 

Christopher Williams (1873-1934) 

Ceri Richards (1903-1971) 

Daniel Trivedy 

David Alesworth 

Faiza Butt   

Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956) 

Frank Nowlan (1835-1919) 

Imran Qureshi 

Iwan Bala 

JMW Turner (1775-1851) 

Kathryn Campbell Dodd 

Kathryn Ashill

Laura Ford  

Lauren Heckler 

Liaqat Rasul 

Muzzumil Ruheel  

Nasia Sarwar 

Nasma Ali 

Nathaniel Dance-Holland (1735-1811) 

Nikhil Chopra 

Nilima Sheikh  

Noor Ali Chagani 

Peter Finnemore  

Paul Davies (1947-1993) 

Pushpamala N.  

Rashid Rana  

Raja Deen Dayal (c.1844-1905) 

Reena Saini Kallat 

Rummana Hussain (1952-1999)  

Richard Glynn Vivian, Founder of the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea (1835-1910) 

Risham Hosain Syed 

Shahzia Sikander  

Shanzay Subzwari 

Tarun Bhartiya (1970-2025) 

Waswo X Waswo 

Zahoor ul-Akhlaq (1941-1999) 

Zarina Hashmi (1937-2020) 

Historic and Contemporary loans from: 

National Library Wales, Aberystwyth 

National Trust: Powis Castle 

Bristol Art Museums and Archives (including the British Empire & Commonwealth Collection)  

Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Taimur Hassan Collection 

Collection of Charles Moore, London 

Collection of Kajoli Khanna, London 

Supporting Galleries: 

Grosvenor Gallery, London 

Canvas Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan 

Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India 

Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India 

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CYFATEBIAETH/CORRESPONDENCES

contemporary painting in response to the life and writing of R S Thomas

Exiled from the Chirrup and Tittle Tattle of the Day - s

Curated by Christine Kinsey the exhibition brings together works by 14 contemporary painters in Wales in response to the life and writing of R S Thomas.

The exhibition will be opened by Professor M. Wynn Thomas, Swansea University @ 2.30pm, Saturday February 1st, 2014

Participating Artists:

Kim Atkinson, Iwan Bala, Kathryn Campbell Dodd, Gareth Hugh Davies, Ivor Davies, Christine Kinsey, Robert Lawton, Mary Lloyd-Jones, Osi Rhys Osmond, William Selwyn, Meriel Jane Thomas, Catrin Webster, Emrys Williams, Sarah Williams

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The Witching Hour

THE WITCHING HOUR
Sara Annwyl, Kathryn Campbell Dodd & Jacob Whittaker, Matt Cook, Michael Cousin, Paul Emmanuel, Tom Goddard, Heloise Godfrey, Mark Houghton, Leona Jones and Richard Huw Morgan.

curated by Richard Higlett

As part of Cardiff Contemporary, Goat Major Projects will presenting its 7th Project: The Witching Hour. This will feature the creation of a sonique lounge in the Canton based project space. The lounge will be a space to hear a programme of sound art by artists based in Wales in the form of an edited hour of works played as a loop. Spoken word pieces and soundscapes, imaginary places and scenarios are formed through sound, transporting the listener to other realms. The project explores the key themes in contemporary sound art, an artform that exists outside of music and poetry, which could be described as a theatre of frequencies. The title ‘The Witching Hour’ is influenced by the writings of David Toop whose book ‘Haunted Weather’ refers to sound as being uncanny and other worldly.
Opening times:
18.00-20.30 Monday – Friday 10.00 -16.00 Weekends. 26/10 to 11/11.Exhibition continues to 11/11/12
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Home/Cartref

My 2005 Doll’s House is being shown as part of Home/Cartref at Memorial Gallery, Yale College Wrexham – 9 September 2012 – 18 March 2013.

A theme based exhibition of historical and contemporary artefacts which are associated with the notion of Home that are influenced by and linked to Wales.

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Take the M4 East then the M5 South

Take the M4 East then the M5 South

Saturday 7 July – Saturday 11 August

Sam Aldridge, Kathryn Campbell Dodd, Good Cop/Bad Cop, Jason Pinder, Anthony Shapland and Dave Shepherd

These Wales-based artists, a mix of established and emerging talent, have in common ‘Rhôd’, an annual exhibition in rural west Wales that aims to site contemporary art in a rural landscape creating a dialogue between urban artists and artists who work in rural settings.

Following Reveal Somerset’s presentation at the Rhôd symposium, held at Chapter, Cardiff in July 2011 in which rural/ urban similarities were discussed, this exhibition seeks to further extend that dialogue into a conversation with The Brewhouse Gallery and it’s visitors.

The artists have been chosen for their diverse mixture of media, which ranges from performance (Good Cop/Bad Cop), film (Anthony Shapland), sculptural objects (Sam Aldridge, Kathryn Campbell Dodd) and interventions (Jason Pinder, David Shepherd).

This exhibition is supported by Reveal Somerset.

The Brewhouse Theatre & Arts Centre, Coal Orchard, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 1JL