A place in the country: Six artists from Denmark at the Oriel Davies Gallery

‘A place in the country’ / ‘Et sted på landet’ brings together six artists from Denmark whose work connects with rurality and life at the margins. Some live and work in West and North Jutland. Dominated by sea and sky, this remote wind-swept region on Denmark’s western coast is a land of sand dunes and birds, low buildings and wind farms. Karen Havskov Jensen returned to the countryside...

Mission Gallery – Swansea

Mission Gallery is one of Wales’ most unique arts venues showing the very best in the visual arts and craft in one of the most distinctive, and best adapted, spaces for the arts in Wales. Hosting a stimulating programme of contemporary visual art and craft, it successfully combines the historic and contemporary within its beautiful exhibition and gallery spaces. An independent art gallery in Swansea’s...

Ben Rowe at the Mission Gallery

Second star to the right and straight on til morning Mission Gallery presents an exhibition by Ben Rowe, a Bristol based artist who works from his studio at Spike Island. Pulling from a huge wealth of sources of popular culture and films from the 1980′s, the central theme for this show is escapism, as Rowe chooses to reconstruct infamous scenes and props of portals or doorways to another time and place....

The Curious World of Becky Adams

Mission Gallery is currently showing the Ruthin Craft Centre & Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre Touring Exhibition by Cardiff based artist, Becky Adams. Becky Adams is a collector of stories; they become an integral part of her life and are ingrained into the making of her work through a sophisticated use of stitch, vintage fabric and antique ephemera. The Curious World of Becky Adams explores the connections...

Ian Keaveny – Artist

Ian Keaveny started painting in the late 1980s. Adding video as a medium since 2007. ‘My work from college until 2008 was mainly abstract. A position I came to reject in 2008 as being unsustainable, based on an examination of the relation between Art, economics and the need to communicate. I work from still life set-ups using collected objects which stand in for people, places and situations within my own...