Oriel Dafydd Hardy

Oriel Logo Big What Is Oriel Dafydd Hardy? Oriel Dafydd Hardy is an alternative / experimental / youth focused arts venue run on a purely altruistic basis by Dafydd Hardy Estate Agents Ltd. This art space offers an unique opportunity for talented young undergraduates, graduates and post graduates to come together to exchange ideas, stage innovative exhibitions and develop a strong alternative artistic community in Gwynedd. No commission whatsoever is taken from these young (or unestablished) artists. Basic printing and promotional expenses are covered by Dafydd Hardy Estate Agents and in certain cases some further discretionary assistance may be considered.

Telephone :
07774 730 325

Email :
orieldafyddhardy@googlemail.com

Why was the Oriel Dafydd Hardy created? Concerned about drain of art graduates from North Wales Dafydd Hardy Estates Agents hopes to provide young Welsh artists with the chance to :- · showcase their work and create a bit of a stir in a gallery with a reputation for the unexpected. · build up young arts co-operative to bridge the gap between the creative exchange of the art school studio and the isolation experienced on graduation. · overcome the basic financial obstacles associated with staging an exhibition outside of the university environment. Oriel Dafydd Hardy will endeavour to promote Celtic Language and Culture through use of Welsh as the gallery's first language and continuous exchanges with other Celtic nations.

Exhibitions Planned Oriel Dafydd Hardy tries to keep the exhibition programme as open as possible so young artists are not faced with a wait of 12 or 18 month for an exhibition. April 26 – May 18 A Pheth Arall....And Another Thing!! A collborative project based on work made on the BA Fine Art course Coleg Menai.

Upcoming Events

LLUNIAU A GWRTHRYCHAU / PICTURES AMPERSAND OBJECTS GAN / BY SIÂN GREEN

10Aug

STATEMENT SIÂN GREEN PICTURES AND OBJECTS, 9 – 31 August 2007 Siân Green is a young, local artist from Pontrug, Caernarfon. In 2005 she completed a degree in Fine Art (Painting and Drawing) at Edinburgh College of Art and, after a period of living in Glasgow, returned home to live and work. Siân comes from an artistic background, and has enjoyed Art from an early age. Her father is Liverpool born artist Frank Green renowned for his lifetime dedication to recording the demolition programme which has destroyed so much of Liverpool since the 1960s. Oriel Dafydd Hardy’s curator, Glenys Davies regularly exhibited Frank Green’s work in the Liverpool Academy of Arts during the 1970s. In this exhibition is a range of work produced over the past few years, including a latex cast of patterned wallpaper and a large drawing of an imaginary Barcelona. The Last Supper (re-arranged) “A blank painting-by-numbers of The Last Supper, dissected and (the shape of) the colours re-arranged on a board. By re-arranging the painting-by-numbers the idea of finding/ creating a formula for art production has been developed further.” Punctured Canvas (Fetish Fone Filth) “A canvas, with a perforated surface, which depicts a page from a pornographic magazine (a crude graphic image not associated with art). By presenting the image in this way, the status of the image and the (fine art) canvas on which it sits have been elevated/ diminished accordingly.” Patterned Wallpaper (latex cast) “A latex cast of patterned wallpaper was taken to a beach. The pattern was imprinted on sand therefore transferring the comfort associated with domestic settings into a different environment.” If you would like to purchase a piece of work phone Siân on 07847 917 584 / 01286 677 149 or Glenys on 07774 730 325 Oriel Dafydd Hardy does not take any commission from work sold by young artists.

Band and Dancers from Landerneau / Band a Dawnswyr o Landerneau

21Jul

Dancers from Landerneau, our twin town, together with their traditional band, the Bagad, will be performing throughout the streets of Caernarfon from 10.30.

Historic walk with PAST PERFORMANCE

23Jul

Join us on a walk through the old town, and along the way we shall meet characters from Caernarfon's rich and varied history - Lloyd George, the men who helped to build the castle and some rather obliging ladies...

PAST PERFORMANCE are specialists in historical re-enactments, with current projects running in Beaumaris and Amlwch. They were featured in the Times newspaper's Top Ten re-enactments of 2006.

Meet by the Big Wheel each day at 5.30. The walk lasts about one hour.
Bilingual performance.
Free, but donations welcome.

Church service in Llanfaglan Church followed by a guided walk

22Jul

2:00
Gwasanaeth dwyieithog (Cymraeg a Breiz) yn yr hen eglwys 13g Llanfaglan, yn dilyn gyda taith gerdded o hanes a natur yn ol i Gaernarfon ar hyd y ffordd gyda Duncan Brown ac Ifor Williams

2:00
Bilingual Service (Welsh and Breiz) at 13th Century Llanfaglan Church, Y Foryd, then a nature and historlcal walk back to Caernarfon along the road with Duncan Brown and Ifor Williams