Newport Museum and Art Gallery, John Frost Square, Newport, NP20 1PA
About Artist Talk: Negative Welsh Artist
Join us for a free talk by Welsh artist Bedwyr Williams. The talk ‘Negative Welsh Artist’ focuses on Williams’ work from 2000 to 2024.
Spaces are limited and booking via Eventbrite is required. Doors open from 6.45pm to 7.15pm only.
Bedwyr Williams (b. 1974 in St. Asaph, Wales) lives and works in Caernarfon, Wales. He studied at Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design, London, and Ateliers Arnhem, The Netherlands. He is a winner of the Paul Hamlyn Award in 2005, represented Wales at the Venice Biennale 2013 and won the Derek Williams Trust Purchase Award in association with Artes Mundi 7 in 2017. He has exhibited nationally and internationally with solo presentations at Barbican, London in 2016; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; Visual Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland; and Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, Denmark (all 2015); Tramway, Glasgow in 2014; and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham in 2012.
The talk coincides with the showing of Bedwyr Williams’ film Tyrrau Mawr, on display at Newport Museum and Art Gallery until 18 January 2025.
Supported by CELF: National contemporary art gallery for Wales.
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