By: galeriesimpsonswansea December 3, 2020December 3, 2020 Galerie BLOG, Uncategorizedart, art gallery, art projectLeave a Comment

GS Artists Kickstarter Launch!

CLICK HERE FOR ART SALES! We’ve launched a Kickstarter to really push forward the work of our gallery, a project in transition, both in the depth and range of our activities. We have set our financial goal low but our ambitions remain high. As soon as we’ve reached that goal we can arrange distribution of rewards in…

By: galeriesimpsonswansea July 31, 2020August 5, 2020 Galerie BLOG, Uncategorizedart, art gallery, artworks, event, fine art, fluxus, GS Artists, Gustav MetzgerLeave a Comment

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Rydym yn falch o gyhoeddi digwyddiad arall o’n “Siop Gelf Ddi-dâl” – gŵyl o weithdai, sgyrsiau, a digwyddiadau trwy Zoom ac yn ein horiel. Rydym yn falch o gyhoeddi digwyddiad arall o’n “Siop Gelf Ddi-dâl” – gŵyl o weithdai, sgyrsiau, a digwyddiadau trwy Zoom ac YB Ron horiel. Abertawe, 217 Y Stryd Fyr, gyda nifer…

By: galeriesimpsonswansea July 14, 2020July 14, 2020 Galerie BLOG, Uncategorizedart, art gallery, artist, artworks, conceptual art, installation art, outsider art, uk artLeave a Comment

GS Artists: Anja Stenina

The work of Anja Stenina is concerned with the agency of marginalised members of society within the semiotic authority of dominant culture. An interview with Anja Stenina You know what I mean – Solo show by Anja Stenina at GS Artists Swansea 2020 In this installation, the artist explores the breakdown of communication between ideological…

By: galeriesimpsonswansea June 18, 2020June 21, 2020 Galerie BLOG, Uncategorizedart, art gallery, artist at work, artworks, conceptual art, feminism, political art, video artLeave a Comment

GS Artists: Alina Skorohoda

Alina Skorohoda’s artwork explores the notion of woman’s duty to the world. She responds to the feelings of obligation that haunt women everywhere, using domestic objects in her work; through altering these objects, she questions attitudes, fears and unwritten rules which have formed a hostile environment for women and their behavior within it, and the…

By: galeriesimpsonswansea June 1, 2020June 1, 2020 Galerie BLOG, Uncategorizedart, art project, artist, fine art, photography, political art, swansea, walesLeave a Comment

GS Artists: Melissa Rodrigues

Melissa Rodrigues‘ work uses a variety of materials to explore issues of displacement, belonging, and cultural identity, exploring aspects concerning the movement of people across the world.Immigration for Rodrigues means more than laws, rules, and bureaucracy; it is centrally about awareness and maintenance of equality, integrity, sense of belonging and diversity within.Rodrigues’ work has developed…

By: galeriesimpsonswansea May 18, 2020May 19, 2020 Galerie BLOG, Uncategorizedart, artist, artworks, conceptual art, gallery, installation art, outsider art, uk artLeave a Comment

GS Artists: Claire Annabel Francis

GS Artists director Claire Annabel Francis‘s work examines the duality of binary structures within society and the ways of human thinking that often determines us as outside of, in opposition to or above our counterpart. The primacy of the natural world is in many ways forgotten due to the meanings inculcated onto it, we forget…

By: galeriesimpsonswansea April 27, 2020April 27, 2020 Galerie BLOG, Uncategorizedabstractart, art, art gallery, art project, artist, installation art, swansea, wales, welsh artLeave a Comment

GS Artists: Demian Johnston

Demian Johnston’s practice builds on a growing body of work with energy concentrated by its confinement – “thinking inside the box”. These ideas value spontaneity, the positioning of objects and making of marks based on inner instinct and expression. Perverse in its initial conception the practice shows dimensions of unpredictability, naturalness, glimpses into the unconscious,…

By: galeriesimpsonswansea April 20, 2020April 20, 2020 Galerie BLOG, Uncategorized#artofvisuals, #wales, art, art project, artist, artist at work, swansea, uk artLeave a Comment

GS Artists: Tess Wood

Tess Wood’s practice aims to express and further deepen her own understanding of human interaction and social control, presenting performances to her audience in an attempt to offer them an opportunity, to experience and contemplate feelings towards topics such as gender, sexuality, power and the moments of fear, love, passion and frustration that reside within…

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Jamie Reid on his Dragons Revenge limited edition print

By: galeriesimpsonswansea May 6, 2020

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Jamie Reid on the provenance of the limited edition print created to celebrate his GS Artists show Dragons Revenge. Produced to Jamie’s brief by local artist Rosie Scribblah, the print is for sale now in our online shop!

GS Artists: Jeremy Gluck

I conceal what I reveal I reveal what I conceal Jeremy Gluck mainly works with contemporary strategies. By rejecting an objective truth and global cultural narratives, Gluck creates work in which a fascination with the clarity of content and an uncompromising attitude towards conceptual and minimal art often collides with ambiguity and concealment. The work…

’You Know What I Mean’ by Anja Stenina

By: galeriesimpsonswansea March 2, 2020March 2, 2020

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March 6th until March 28th, 2020 Anja Stenina’s GS Artists solo show explores the break down of communication between ideological positions. “You know what I mean” exemplifies the way in which discourse is broken, limited without elaboration or resolution. She uses metaphysical personifications of the Ages of Aquarius and Pisces to symbolise antithetical ideological perspectives…

Jamie Reid: The GS Interview

By: galeriesimpsonswansea January 25, 2020February 3, 2020

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By Jeremy Gluck for GS Artists Punk rock? You know it when you hear – and see – it; months before I heard the debut Ramones album I had put pictures of them from Rock Scene on my wall. I knew. And I was right: the Ramones possessed life-changing powers. They sure as hell changed…

Dragons Revenge – a solo show by Jamie Reid.

By: galeriesimpsonswansea January 18, 2020January 25, 2020

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GS Artists are completing their 6 month long focus on the Political in Art with a solo show of JAMIE REID‘s Political Works 1970-2020, curated with John Marchant. Reid (1947) is an iconoclast, anarchist, punk, hippie, shit-stirring rebel & romantic. Infamously and eternally connected with the Sex Pistols and the DIY ethic of punk, Reid…

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Craig Wood In Conversation with Fiona Banner, Bethel Chapel, April 7th, 2019.

By: galeriesimpsonswansea November 17, 2019November 18, 2019

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Download the full Craig Wood In Conversation with Fiona Banner PDF here. Following is a section of one of the studio conversations recorded by the artists and transcribed at their discretion. The venue was Bethel Chapel (Craig’s studio) on April the 7th, 2019. Craig Wood These are these early polythene water pieces that I made. Fiona Banner…

Scott Mackenzie in conversation:

By: galeriesimpsonswansea August 15, 2019August 15, 2019

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September 6th 6 p.m. GS Artists is proud to host an in-conversation event featuring current Artist at Work, GS co-director Scott Mackenzie, whose superb show, NOTHING HAS CHANGED is exhibiting now. Subtitled “From Aberfan to Grenfell”, the work provides a cross-section of the zeitgeist, exposing raw nerves and shattered attention bearing on our personal and…

Sarah Poland Artist At Work

By: galeriesimpsonswansea May 29, 2019May 30, 2019

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GS Artists: Tomos Sparnon

By: galeriesimpsonswansea May 4, 2020May 18, 2020

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Mae gwaith Tomos yn archwilio’r hyn ydyw i fod yn ddynol. Trwy baentio, arlunio, cerflunio a dulliau eraill, mae’n archwilio perthynas dyn â’i gyd-ddyn, â’r byd, â gwrthrychau, â’i hunan ac â Duw. Ei nod yw dal y gwrthdrawiad rhwng y gweladwy a’r anweladwy, rhwng realiti a’r hyn nad yw’n real. Gellir gweld rhagor o…

GS Artists: Abigail Fraser

By: galeriesimpsonswansea April 13, 2020April 20, 2020

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Abigail Fraser My work is an ongoing investigation into the loving vulnerability connected to the memory of a space and a place. Through using materials such as LED Lights, old television monitors and oil paint, I explore themes of domesticity such as universally recognised objects and symbols of familiarity. For example, recreating the familiar patterns…

Arddangosfa o waith Jamie Reid gan Tomos Sparnon

By: galeriesimpsonswansea April 3, 2020April 4, 2020

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O 24 Ionawr i 1 Mawrth 2020, cynhaliwyd arddangosfa o waith yr artist adnabyddus Jamie Reid yn GS Artists, Abertawe. Mae GS Artists (Galerie Simpson gynt) yn gyfarwydd ag arddangos gwaith artistiaid llwyddiannus ac adnabyddus, er enghraifft Sir Peter Blake, Gavin Turk, Cecile Johnson Soliz a Tim Davies i enwi rhai, ond roedd rhywbeth gwahanol…

Anja Stenina Knows What You Mean: An Interview

By: galeriesimpsonswansea March 15, 2020April 4, 2020

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By Jeremy Gluck for GS Artists Anja Stenina‘s show ‘You Know What I Mean‘, appealing to the intellect but also evading it, is apparently cerebral. Posing many questions beyond its name, the show embodies a fundamental challenge: You Know What You Are? The latest expression of a body of work that is as engaging as…

Axe Head to Everything: I Have a Heart as Big as the World But… at Volcano Theatre

By: galeriesimpsonswansea February 27, 2020March 15, 2020

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GS interns’ Axe Head Collective presents its third major March Volcano Theatre group show of Swansea College of Art alumni! Opening March 13th for one week. Titled I Have the Biggest Heart in the World but… this show is Axe Head Collective’s biggest so far, featuring twelve artists and including a performance by exhibiting artist…