Coleg Sir Gâr is hosting an exhibition at its Carmarthen School of Art which is exploring the concept of repetition in art.
Exhibitors Group 56, founded in 1956 is a cornerstone of the visual arts in Wales and over the years has included most of Wales’s best-known artists.
The group’s exhibition explores repetition as an artistic concept, strategy or process.
Group 56 stated:
“As artists, we are well aware that repetition is a tactic that can lead to a wide range of outcomes, whether that is to create rhythm and pattern or to capitalise on the notion that repetition leads to emphasis and hence possibly authority/compulsion, as many who work in series have discovered.”
However, some aspects of making art, for example weaving can be considered tedious because of its repetition. Where in such repetition is the invention, imagination and individuality associated with art? This exhibition explores this conundrum.
One of the Co-Chairs of 56 Group Wales, the sculptor Robert Harding said:
“This exhibition in Carmarthen is the first in a series of educational exhibitions that 56 Group Wales plans to create over the next few years.
“We have noticed that our audiences rarely question the steps taken towards the creation of work in an exhibition; they tend to concentrate on the 10% inspiration rather than the 90% perspiration.”
56 Group Wales takes their educational role seriously and for over 10 years has selected recent Welsh graduates for honorary fellowships within the group.
The exhibition is being held at Coleg Sir Gâr’s Carmarthen School of Art at its Henry Thomas Gallery, Job’s Well Road, Carmarthen from January 20 to February 12.
Opening times are 9am until 4.30pm and the exhibition is free.
For further details contact 56groupwales.org.uk
Picture by Ken Elias, Group 56. ‘In search of a landscape (ii)’
Throughout my childhood I lived with my parents in a small two-up and two-down terraced house. Two paintings of the Swiss Lakes hung on the uneven stone walls of our living-room walls that were re-wallpapered almost every year at around Christmas time. The paintings ‘In Search of a Landscape’ (ii) & (iii) serve as a means of travelling back to that earlier time and place. Passing through layers and years of repeated coloured patterns to a place that at one time, was near to a Swiss Lake.
