Anja Stenina Knows What You Mean: An Interview

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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…

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Dragons Revenge – a solo show by Jamie Reid.

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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.

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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…

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

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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…

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Rhythm: The Day GS Turned Dayglo!

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Please join us at GS Artists on Friday January 10th at 6 pm for the opening of our next Artist at Work project. Rhythm, a solo art show by local Swansea based artist and GS intern ‘Fraser’, explores the comfort of familiarity and altered memory. Depicting universally recognised forums and disrupting the familiar via syncopated…

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Swansea artists picture Michael Sheen

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Welsh film star Michael Sheen has been handed a new role – as the subject for more than 100 Swansea portraits. The resulting 140-plus images of Port Talbot-raised Sheen went on show in GS Artists Gallery on High Street, Swansea. Pictures were submitted from a range of exhibitors from schools, colleges, support groups and adult…

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Rainworks: GS Community Art Collaboration with Cwmavon

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GS Artists were collaborators with our landlords, Coastal Housing, on bringing what we termed, “Secret Street Art” to Wales.  We created a series of secret messages around the Ynys Lee Estate near Port Talbot, that only appear when it rains. Read on: New artwork can only be seen when it rains South Wales Evening Post…

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GS Artists Soup Talks

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Was devised in July 2018, by Jane Simpson to try and address a few things she had observed as an artist living back home in Swansea. She wanted to link artists. London felt a long way away and the desire to link her home town with the other end of the M4 was strong. She…

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“There is a politics of space as space is politics” at GS Artists – November 16th to December 5th.

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GS Artists is proud to present our new group exhibition  “There is a politics of space as space is politics”.  Continuing our Activism Autumn season, this time our attention focusing  on more established artists and their political comments in art form. The artworks will include the film ‘Election Abstract‘ by Cornelia Parker that she created as the official…

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