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March 8, 2013

Single Review: Graffiti on the Train - Stereophonics

THE FIRST album since the tragic death of their first drummer Stuart Cable was always likely to be downbeat and Graffiti on the Train is exactly that.
It follows the disappointing Keep Calm and Carry On in 2009 and despite being far better, Graffiti on the Train is still hit and miss. There are a few good tracks on the album with the anthemic Indian Summer and the standout title track. But most of the album is just dull.
Graffiti on the Train would be the perfect album to have on in the office because at no point would anyone be distracted from their work.

February 15, 2013

Review: David Tress exhibition at Albany Gallery

Tress's West Wales landscapes refuse to be quaint.

PEMBROKESHIRE based artist, David Tress, has featured the West Wales landscape in his latest work, currently in exhibiton at Albany Gallery.

The London-born artist moved to Wales in his early twenties and was inspired to reject modernism but influence his landscapes with his early abstract art.

In the early days, Tress painted highly-detailed and realistic landscapes. Light was always central. One of his famous earlier works, Winter Sun, places a darkening sky behind brightly illuminated stone walls of a cottage. It could be a photograph.

February 1, 2013

Graffiti cleaners in Cardiff: destroying art or combatting vandalism?

We know how graffiti gets on to walls, but how does it come off? We went on a street clean with a Cardiff removal team to find out.

There are many different types of graffiti in Cardiff.

Glyn Burrell and Alex Quinn have seen most of it, from heart shaped doodles to scrawled slurs, in their work removing graffiti from the city streets. They let me come along on a clean, to see how they tackle graffiti and find out how easy it is to scrub away.

March 20, 2012

Digital arts competition winners show off their work

The four winners see their work showcased alongside established digital artists atat the Butetown History and Arts Centre

The Butetown History and Arts Centre has launched a digital arts exhibition which contains numerous references to womanhood.

In 2010, the Women’s Arts Association created a competition asking for innovative proposals from artists wanting to learn about digital technology in relation to their art.

From this competition four female artists were chosen. Their works are now being shown at the Butetown History and Arts Centre alongside established digital artists, Mandy Nash and Catherine Lewis.

March 2, 2012

The David Jones art exhibition.

The David Jones Paintings and Watercolours Exhibition, at National Museum Wales, show a collection of his works in a small, intimate setting.

For those who are interested in art, it is likely they have heard of William Blake. Whether they learnt of him in the classroom or just heard his name tossed about in conversation, many would say the name rings a bell. He was an artist who is commonly and widely talked of. The social and political undertones consistent throughout his work, were what made his art so poignant .

February 24, 2012

Restaurant Gios wins appeal to serve drinks in glasses, not plastic cups, on match nights

Gios owner Giovanni Malacrino had called the provisions in the premises licence "horrible" and "embarrassing" for his customers and will now be able to serve drinks in glasses in his restaurant all night on event or match days

In a bid to improve the atmosphere of fine dining in the city, one of Cardiff’s most established Italian restaurants has won an appeal which will allow them to serve drinks in glasses instead of plastic cups when the customers are having a meal.

February 17, 2012

Life drawing in the yurt

With life drawing more popular than ever, Danielle Sheridan sees what all the fuss is about

UPDATED: This review has been updated to correct some factual errors it previously contained - and for that we can only apologies and amend the page.

There's been plenty of discussion on Danielle's view of the event - and interesting debate on nudity and the representation of the human body - on the Cardiff Life Model Collective's Facebook Page. And please check out the comments below, which have very different views on the event than Danielle did.

February 17, 2012

New David Hockney exhibition opens at the Millennium Centre

Hockney conveys his vivid imagery in the 33 prints on show

A new David Hockney exhibition just opened at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, but where the Yorkshire-born artist’s headline-grabbing Royal Academy show A Bigger Picture is all about scale and colour, David Hockney and The Brothers Grimm is a more muted and intimate affair.

Coinciding with this year’s 200th anniversary of the publication of the first Grimm’s Fairy Tales volume, the centre has on show 33 prints reproduced from original etchings done by Hockney in the late 1960s.

February 3, 2012

Graffiti makeover for industrial warehouse

London Graffiti collective BRS are transforming a Llandaff North warehouse into a tribute to New York art.
Painting is already in progress and the exhibition will take place at The Boiler House, a converted warehouse on the Andrews Road industrial estate.

London Graffiti collective BRS are transforming a Llandaff North warehouse into a tribute to New York art.

Painting is already in progress and the exhibition will take place at The Boiler House, a converted warehouse on the Andrews Road industrial estate.

BRS consists of graffiti artists Four, Ders, Skyhigh, Choc and Born, who have spent a week spray-painting the walls of the warehouse to get it ready in time for the launch party tonight.

“ We are trying to do some real funky stuff with this exhibition,” Born told The Cardiffian.

January 26, 2012

The architecture of New York city

Lecture. Chapter Arts Centre. £5.

New York City fires the imagination through its imprint on literature, drama and film. In this lecture, Mike Higginbottom surveys the comparatively ancient buildings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to the great skyscrapers of the first half of the twentieth century and more recent additions to the famous skyline. Chapter Arts Centre. £5.

March 4, 2011

The rich history of Rumney Pottery

The history of Rumney Pottery is even richer than the clay banks of the River Rhymney where it lies, and over time it has seen the city of Cardiff build up around it.

The pottery has been the Giles family business for around 200 years and despite being one of the oldest buildings in the district, it is still going strong today.

Robert Giles, 72, is the resident potter at the house and was even born there. He learned the art of pottery from his father, and has been working there since before he can remember.

February 4, 2011

Graffiti comes in from the cold in Cardiff

Cardiff artist Bryce “Best” Davies talks graffiti and why he set up The Boiler House, Wales’s first Graffiti and Street Art gallery.

GRAFFITI is an odd concept. To some it is an art form, to others it’s a political statement. To many, it’s just vandalism.

I talked to Cardiff graffiti artist Bryce “Best” Davies about what it means to him and why he set up The Boiler House, Wales’s first Graffiti and Street Art gallery.

The quiet, middle-class suburb of Llandaff North seems an odd place for the hub of graffiti art in Cardiff to be tucked away.