A Fine Beginning: Made in Wales exhibition

Monday 17 March 2014 13:07 GMT

A view at both rural and urban locations. He said: "I have travelled and photographed all over the world but always as a visitor. In this work I wanted to look at this place that my people are from, this place that held a semi-romanticised, semi-mythologi

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A Fine Beginning: Made in Wales exhibition

Hasidic Holiday by Chloe Dewe Mathews

Hasidic Holiday series looks at British orthodox Jews who have been holidaying in the Welsh seaside resort of Aberystwyth for more than 20 years. "Each family rents a small house in the empty student accommodation on the hill and a large yellow and white striped tent is erected on the campus as a temporary synagogue," Mathews said

A Fine Beginning: Made in Wales exhibition

Boredom to Burn by Gawain Barnard

A view of objects set against burnt landscapes. In Barnard's introduction to the piece he writes: "Boredom makes us do it, that and the chase. The sun whitens the grass until it's ripe to burn and then we light it, watch and wait. The flames take the land and then they come and we run. Us in our shorts them in their gear, too clumsy to run but fast because they're men and we're laughing and falling, stumbling and rolling from the burn, safe if not caught, too young to worry about the dead birds, broken land and black landscape"

A Fine Beginning: Made in Wales exhibition

A Landscape of Wales by James Morris

A view at both rural and urban locations. He said: "I have travelled and photographed all over the world but always as a visitor. In this work I wanted to look at this place that my people are from, this place that held a semi-romanticised, semi-mythological place in my imagination"

A Fine Beginning: Made in Wales exhibition

Brighter Later by Brian David Stevens

Artist said of the work, which depicts the view out to sea from a number of locations along the Welsh coast: "The work is presented as diptychs, a hangover from childhood when I would stare at landscapes first through the left eye and then through the right, delighted by the differences in the two views"

A Fine Beginning: Made in Wales exhibition

Byland by Christina Williams

St David's, in Pembrokeshire. Williams said: "It is Britain's smallest city and lies at the most western point in mainland Wales. St David's is steeped with historical, religious and topographical elements that have over time altered its identity and shaped a very specific visual representation"

A Fine Beginning: Made in Wales exhibition

Clear Cut by Christoph Soeder

Customers at a barber shop in Newport. In 2013 Soeder's book Clear-Cut was shortlisted for the Unseen Dummy Award and exhibited at the Unseen Photo Fair in Amsterdam

A Fine Beginning: Made in Wales exhibition

Hiraeth by Gareth Phillips

Gareth Phillips's work explores a Welsh word, Hiraeth, one that has no direct English translation

A Fine Beginning: Made in Wales exhibition

Of the Night by Lorna Evans

Of the Night began when Evans went out with a group who were lamping, hunting animals using spotlights, in search of rabbits. She said: "However, this sport didn't hold my interest photographically. I became much more interested in how the darkness transformed the landscape around me into something alien. A sinister scene filled with strange creatures looking on. The natural world is no longer a place that we are familiar with"

A Fine Beginning: Made in Wales exhibition

Poles by Paul Cabuts

Paul Cabuts is the academic subject leader for photography for the University of Wales. His project Poles explores their place in the landscape and their importance in the ever increasing amount of private digital traffic the wires they support carry

A Fine Beginning: Made in Wales exhibition

Suicide Machine by Dan Wood

Suicide Machine depicts Dan Wood's hometown. He writes: "The main aim of the project is to rediscover Bridgend and find out if it is as generic, oppressive and depressing as I'm starting to believe. What does the future hold for Bridgend; a town that's slowly being constricted by supermarkets and out of town developments? Does happiness exist here? Why has there been an exodus of most of my friends? And what kind of town will my daughter ultimately grow up in?"

A Fine Beginning: Made in Wales exhibition

The Big O by Abbie Trayler-Smith

The Big O is a study of the children behind the obesity statistics, which was awarded second place in one of the portrait categories of the World Press Photo Awards

A Fine Beginning: Made in Wales exhibition

The Last House on the Hill by Jack Latham

The Last House on the Hill is about loss, both personal and of community. Latham writes: "When someone departs, places and experiences go with them that exist solely as memories. A whole community might expire when its fragile image disappears in the mind of its final beholder. An idea of the valleys as they once were will cease to be, when the last witness is no more. What else will be lost in that twofold death? As places change beyond recognition, a direct link to what was, lives on in those that were. Perhaps without them we need revisit, to make new images and try to restore the connection before it is lost completely"

A Fine Beginning: Made in Wales exhibition

United Kingdom by James O Jenkins

United Kingdom records the Eisteddfod festival held in August each year. Held over eight days, it is the largest competitive festival of music and poetry in Europe. Jenkins writes: "Central to the Eisteddfod are the Gorsedd ceremonies - the Gorsedd is a society of poets, writers, musicians, artists and individuals who have all made notable contributions to Wales. Three Gorsedd ceremonies are held during the festival: The Crowning of the Bard (best free verse); the Awarding of the Prose Medal (for the winner of the prose competition); and the Chairing of the Bard (best strict metre poem)"

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