Open Houses & Studios

Janette Goringe.

Mon 2 – Tue 31 Oct, 9am – 6pm.

Waterloo Gardens Teahouse, 5 Waterloo Gardens, CF23 5AA

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

I am an artist living in the Roath area. I started painting 7 years ago when my youngest started school full time. I am self taught so I wanted to see how my work could develop as I gave myself more time to explore and experiment.  I love walks along coast lines, through woods or up mountains and these are the main inspiration for my work. I paint in oils and acrylics and enjoy experimenting with colour. I always hope my work enables a person to feel part of the place and draws their imagination into a similar time they may have visited a beach, walked along a part of our beautiful Welsh coastline or clambered up one of our rugged mountains. More of my work can be viewed on my website jgoringedesigns.weebly.com or like my Facebook page Janette Goringe Paintings for more up to date work and interaction.

An exhibition of paintings by a selection of members of the RI

Thu 12 Oct – Sat 4 Nov
Mon-Sat, 10am – 5pm
Sun, 11am – 4pm

The Albany Gallery, 74b Albany Rd, CF24 3RS

The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) are delighted to be exhibiting at The Albany Gallery. As one of the oldest and most respected watercolour institutions, we are often asked to exhibit in major galleries all over the world.

The RI, now in its 186th year has 56 Members, 5 Honorary Artist Members, 8 Honorary Members including HRH The Prince of Wales is an Honorary Member.

Rosa Sepple (President, RI)

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Paddy Faulkner

Fri 13 – Sun 22 Oct, all day.

The exterior side wall of Juno Lounge, 14 Wellfield Rd, CF24 3PB

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

To mark the 100th anniversary of the battle of Passchendaele, this work combines digital image with text from lesser-known First World War poet Alfred Noyes.

‘And while you deck our graves, you shall not know
how many scornful legions pass you by.’

100 postcards of the image will be distributed around Roath.

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A night of live music, dancing and celebration!

Sat 14 Oct, 8pm – 11pm.

The Gate Arts Centre, Keppoch St, CF24 3JWA

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: No

A 25th anniversary celebration of the biggest, boldest, brassiest band in Cardiff!

Wonderbrass kick off our Heritage Lottery Funded collaborative music project with a bang this October at madeinroath. Join us for a New Orleans style party like you’ve never seen before!

We’ll also be inviting ALL previous members of the band to join us on stage for a spectacular, roof-raising, ear-splitting, rip-roaring celebratory performance of brand new material in 2018.

So if you’ve ever been affected by the phenomenon that is Wonderbrass join us for a knees-up and find out how you can get involved with our exciting new project!

To keep up with the project’s latest developments and gigs you can follow the band on Twitter @Wonderbrass, via #WB25 or through the Wonderbrass Facebook page and website.

Sun 15 – Sun 22 Oct, all day

The Railings around The Mackintosh Sports Club, 38 Keppoch St, CF24 3JW

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

‘By My Side, Come Rain or Shine’ is a photo collage based project organised by CREATE and artist James Cocks. Come along throughout the festival week to see the original artwork from the project on display.

Workshops were held at local primary and secondary schools, charities, colleges and with community groups.

Sun 15 – Fri 20 Oct. Submit entry via email.

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: No

Write a poem in response to a piece of artwork which you have seen on display during the festival. Take a photo of the artwork and send both (with your name, artist’s name, title of artwork) to rachel@createdtoread.com by 5pm Fri 20 Oct. The competition will be judged by local poets Mab Jones and Rhys Milsom. The prize is publication on the madeinroath website, a £15 book token and a fascinating book on world art (purchased from the Aladdin’s Cave – Troutmark Books).

We will also display the winning entry at the art space ‘Three Doors Up’ in the Queens Arcade shopping centre. If you’re searching for inspiration, you could go along to the monthly ekphrastic writing group on 17 Oct at The Gate, where we’ll be drawing inspiration from the madeinroath Open Exhibition. Both events are run by local poet and book blogger Rachel Carney. See her blog for more details: www.createdtoread.com/ekphrastic-writing-group.

Group exhibition of artwork made by mostly Wales based artists at The Gate Arts Centre.

Exhibition Preview & Festival Launch Night Sat 14, 6pm – 8pm, then Sun 15 – Sun 22 Oct, see venue opening times.

The Gate Arts Centre, Keppoch St, CF24 3JWA

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

Open call exhibition with no restrictions according to age, ability or experience. Limit of one artwork per person. This open call approach is a deliberate strategy which always results in an interesting and unique exhibition.

Mike Murray.

Sun 15 – Sat 22 Oct, all day.

6: Inkspot, The Old Church, Newport Rd, CF24 1PU
4: Trinity Methodist Church, 1 Piercefield Place, CF24 0LD
17: The Gate Arts Centre, Keppoch St, CF24 3JW

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

Mike Murray’s digital prints are a direct digital response to selected churches within the Roath area. The buildings were specifically chosen for their intriguing architecture and current function.  The works are a creative response to how these historic buildings are used today, making references to natural intervention and globalism. The piece aims to create questions about the change in belief and function of the buildings and our relationship to the natural world.  Churches are historically buildings that provide a social hub.  As our beliefs have changed, these buildings have adapted.

Andy Fung, Pria borg-marks, Paul Battenbough, James Charlton.

Sun 15 – Fri 20 Oct and Sun 22 Oct, View garden by appointment.
Sat 21 Oct, all day from 12pm.

Flat 1, 110 Claude Rd, CF24 3QD

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

The garden flat of Wayne McAuliffe is like an obsessive outsider artist zone. For this event there will be artworks displayed around the garden from artists Andy Fung, Pria Borg-Marks and Paul Battenbough. On Sat 21 Oct there will be musical performances from a number of notable artists in the garden, includingThe Gentle Good, Martin Callingham, No Thee No Ess and Gary Merkelby. The feel of the event should be a magical transcendence of location and allow participants to drift away from the notion of place.

Sue Hunt & Susan Adams.

Sun 15 – Sun 22 Oct.
See church calendar for open times http://www.roath.org.uk/StEdward/calendar.html.

Saint Edwards Church, Blenheim Rd, CF23 5BS

Disability Access: No
Family Friendly: Yes

What is art if not a gift? Few artists are economically sustained by their practice yet are compelled to continually make and offer their artworks to all willing and less willing individuals. Sue Hunt and Susan Adams explore offering through a collaborative piece involving prints, silverpoint drawings and sculpture, with an opportunity to pass on the gift by giving an offering to Mind Cymru.

By choosing to show the work in a church, Hunt and Adams have drawn a parallel between the sacred space of the gift (calling to mind Lewis Hyde’s remarkable book The Gift : how the creative spirit transforms the world) and contemplation of the sublime. Hunt’s prints evoke the circular form of the communion wafer while Adams’ sculpture echoes medieval ecclesiastical sculpture.

This explorative piece marks there first collaboration , during which seeds will be sown for future development.

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Times see- http://www.roath.org.uk/StEdward/calendar.html

Sun 1 – Tues 31 Oct.
Mon – Wed, 8am – 6pm.
Thu – Sat, 8am – 10.30pm.
Sun, 9am – 6pm.

Waterloo Tea, 17-19 Clear Water Way, CF23 6DL

Disability Access: No
Family Friendly: Yes

Annette Marie Townsend is a Welsh artist from Cardiff, who designs and makes bespoke pieces inspired by the natural world. Her work expresses a fascination with intricate detail, beauty, pattern and textures and draws direct reference to her experience in preserving, documenting and storing scientific specimens in a museum context. She explores playfully with scale and uses her extensive knowledge of traditional and modern design materials to push boundaries, creating innovative new collections.

Her Etched Entomology series was inspired by research in the scientific collections at Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales and combines techniques which are normally used in printmaking, printed circuit board manufacturing and jewellery design. Images are drawn directly onto a copper surface, which is then etched, oxidised, sanded, scratched and polished. Each finished piece displays unique variations in the surface patina and intricate, shining copper details.

Nia Metcalfe.

Sun 15 – Sun 22 Oct, 9am – 5pm.

28: Greyhound Rescue Wales, 73 Albany Rd, CF24 3LN

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

Nia was lead artist for Red Route, as part of Made in Spring, earlier this year. She has been developing work from this experience and wider concerns about our relationship with nature and our fellow beings.

Natasha Owen.

Sun 15 – Sun 22 Oct, 9am – 5pm.

Greyhound Rescue Wales, 73 Albany Rd, CF24 3LN

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

Recycling and upcycling everyday materials has become a monthly celebration in the Greyhound Rescue Wales charity shop on Albany road. I create fashion pieces from weird and wonderful objects, ranging from coffee filters to paint swatches.

Recycling has became a passion of mine and hopefully I have inspired others to reuse their belongings in different ways.

Zara Mader

Sun 15 – Sun 22 Oct, 9am – 6pm.

Terra Nova Café, Roath Park Lake, Lake Road West, CF23 5PH

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

I am a Cardiff based photographer whose interest in and appreciation of trees and their beauty is ongoing. From their leaves and branches to the whole tree itself, my eye is drawn to their natural, detailed patterns. In the city’s green spaces and its urban landscape the place trees take invite admiring looks. As a city, Cardiff is lucky because of its beautiful parks and tree lined streets.

Gavin Jones.

Sun 15 – Sun 22 Oct, 9am – 5pm.

The Wash Inn, 161 Albany Rd, CF24 3NT

Disability Access: No
Family Friendly: Yes

My shown work at the Laundromat consists of two themes. ‘Glimpses’ is my interpretation of the people I see, how they look, and how they seem to act and react to one another. ‘Sense of Place’ is my interpretation of the landscape that wraps around us all.

Assorted.

Sun 15 Oct – Sun 22 Oct.
Mon – Tue, 8:30am – 5pm. Wed – Fri, 8:30am – 8:00pm.
Sat, 9:30am – 8pm. Sun, 9:30am – 4pm.

I Want to Ride My Bike, Cafe Bar & Workshop, 26 Park Place, CF10 3BA

Disability Access: Yes

Family Friendly: Yes

This year madeinroath invited a number of artists to contribute a small postcard artwork, to be sold to fundraise for the festival. Here are some of the exceptional artworks we received. Thank you to all the artists who contributed their time and talents.
If you would like to buy any of the postcards please head to madeinroath.bigcartel.com

Group research space for exploring Touch, Tactility and Surface.

James Cocks, Ella Mai Downes, Gweni Llwyd, Beth Elen Roberts (additional speakers and participants tbc).

Sun 15 – Sun 22 Oct.

Sun, 10am to 4pm. Mon – Wed, 8:30am – 6pm.
Thurs -Fri, 8.30am – 9pm. Sat, 8:30am – 5pm.

Deli Rouge, 73 Pen-Y-Wain Rd, CF24 4GG

Disability Access: No
Family Friendly: Yes

‘The reduction of the sensorium into five senses was first determined by Aristotle.
But Galen said there was six, Erasmus Darwin though there were 12, and Von Fey reduced them to eight….
Recent authorities calculate that there are 17 senses.’
Anthony Synnott, 1993

A research space exploring touch, tactility and surface; the exhibition presents the work of artists and designers, who have a cultivated a ‘sensitivity to material’ in their work. Accumulatively, they acknowledge the subjectivity of touch and construct it in new ways; hinging our understanding on a nostalgia for past sensations and consistent yearning to experience new ones.

Featuring work by James Cocks, Ella Mai Downes, Gweni Llwyd and Beth Elen Roberts, each artist or designer explores elements of touch, tactility and surface, to address our digital, gendered, cultural and historical construction of the senses.

The exhibition will include open discussions and dialogues between inter-disciplinary researchers.

Steffan Jones-Hughes

Sun 15 Oct, 10am – 4pm

I Want to Ride My Bike, Cafe Bar & Workshop, 26 Park Place, CF10 3BA

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

I’m interested in the search we all have to find meaning in our lives. Sometimes life feels like a very long journey and although we are often travelling with significant others we invariably return to the self and the eternal questions Who am I? Why am I here? What have I done? Have I made a difference? All of these questions are explored through my drawing. By the way, what is success? How do we measure it? And what is fulfilment?

I’ll be drawing on location in the Ride My Bike Cafe on 15 October, I’ll photograph the installation and share on Instagram #MiRoath #bikecafeart #longertables. The drawings would be presented as a continuous narrative laid out like a table.

I will work in the space to create the stories and drawings

11 Tewkesbury Place, CF24 4QU

Sun 15 Oct, 10am – 4:30pm.

Sat 21 – Sun 22 Oct, 10am – 4:30pm.

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

Contemporary photography exploring our relationship with our urban environment. Once we have created buildings, walls and roads, then erosion, gravity, nature and everything that comes with the passage of time take over. How much of the built environment really is down to us? These images explore the uncontrollable creative interface between human industry and time.

Susanne & Lilith König

Sun 15 – Sun 22 Oct, 10am – 4:30pm

37: Front of House, 37 Alfred St, CF24 4TY

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

An interactive exhibition about the impact of austerity on today’s children and adults.

Managed by Sara Annwyl, in memory of Elen Mai Wyn Jones.

Sun 15 – Sun 22 Oct, 10am – 4.30pm.

The Diana Rooms, 25 Diana St, CF24 4TS

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

An open participation all week knitting event for interested knitters and invited knitting groups. The challenge is to recreate the lost knitting, from archive documentation of a textile installation of the late Cardiff artist Elen Mai Wyn Jones. The completed material will be used in a memorial exhibition for Elen in 2018.

Mehdi Razi

Sun 15 – Sun 22 Oct, 10am – 5pm

Punk Bikes, 2-4 Rear of Bedford Street Lane, CF24 3BZ

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

Mehdi Razi, product designer and a hobbyist photographer, celebrates the beauty of Cardiff as seen through his own eyes. In his collection, Mehdi showcases detailed shots from all around Cardiff to highlight exceptional details that are often overlooked.

Cerys Thomas-Ford

Performance Sun 15 – Mon 16 Oct, 10:30am – 4pm

Exhibition Fri 20 – Sun 22 Oct, 11am – 5pm

91 Ninian Rd, CF23 5EQ

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

Being unfamiliar with the area, and interested in stories, the artist invites you to take her on short trips in the area. Take her to your favourite places; show her your favourite things, something that has always held significance, or something that you found that day.

Cerys is interested in how we engage with unfamiliar places; how we map space both physically and through a series of interactions, making place and space constructs that exist differently for each individual. Cerys is asking you to walk her to landmarks, sights or objects that are of some import to you for any reason, so that she may begin to map the area through these stories. The performance takes place over two days, and later in the week, the resulting documentation will be exhibited.

Philippa Brown

Sun 15 – Sun 22 Oct, 10.30am – 3pm

73: Roath Park Conservatory, Roath Park Botanic Gardens, CF23 5PG

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

Cardiff artist Philippa Brown is making and installing new work in response to the exotic surroundings of the Roath Park conservatory.

I make paintings, assemblages and sculptures using easily manipulated, found, discarded and new materials. My working practices have evolved as a result of an interest in materials, decoration and adornment.  I enjoy the dialogue and relationships between the old/new, intentional/accidental, beautiful/ugly, formal/informal.

www.philippabrown.co.uk

Sun 15 – Fri 20 Oct by appointment;
Sat 21 – Sun 22, 11am – 5pm.

TEN. 143 Donald St, CF24 4TP

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

A solo exhibition of new work by TEN gallery artist Molly Rooke. Royal College of Art post-graduate Rooke’s often humorous works form new narratives through her treatment of found images through various printing processes.

For full details see www.gallery-ten.co.uk

– name from a cd by singer / songwriter / photo’er Nick Treharne

Glenn Edwards

Sun 15 Oct – Fri 24 Nov, 11am – 11pm

23: The Andrew Buchan Bar, 29 Albany Rd, CF24 3LH

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

Cardiff is a proud multi-cultural city with people from all over the world living side by side. This set of photographs by photojournalist Glenn Edwards, are all taken on one road, Albany Road in Roath. They show the diversity of culture and race, of people keeping a way of life yet building a community of strength and friendship.

Glenn has worked on over 100 international commissions including 80 plus in sub-Sahara Africa. He has 4 books with another one on the way and has exhibited internationally. This exhibition is part of the Andrew Buchan Bar Festival Week Facebook.com/andrewbuchanbar

Sun 15 – Sun 22 Oct.
Mon, Closed. Tues – Fr, 5pm – 10pm, Sat – Sun, 12pm – 7pm.

Spit and Sawdust, Rhymney River Bridge Rd, CF23 9AF

Disability Access: No
Family Friendly: No

Carlota Nobrega and Gweni Llwyd present new work inspired by a game where you put as many marshmallows as you can in your mouth, and try to say the words ‘Fuzzy Bunny’.

Both artists use multiple medias, and despite having diverse starting points, their work comes together to share a layered, textured and sensual outcome.

Carlota, working with video, painting and sculpture explores and experiments with the concept of abjection in relation to the body. Gweni’s practice revolves around the mundane, the sensory and the absurd, often using memories from her childhood, previous sculptures and online video databases, approaching her practice as a multidisciplinary collage of stuff.

Above the Garage, 12a Pearl Place, CF24 1HE

Sun 15 – Fri 20 Oct, 12pm – 7pm. Other dates or times by appointment

Disability Access: No
Family Friendly: No

Come and visit my spacious north-lit studio. I will be showing work from my current projects, ‘Zarathustra’ (a visual exploration of architypes from Nietzsche’s Thus spake Zarathustra and ‘Once upon a time: A tales of stories that cannot be told (a sculptural series on childhood emotion)’ plus a range of traditional portraits, oil paintings, drawings, sculptures, sketchbooks and journals from Cardiff, Paris and London.

Refreshments available.

My studio is above the garage, with access via a steep stair.
Please note that some of my work includes nude figures.

www.metadrawer.com

Sun 15 – Sun 22 Oct, 12pm – 11pm

The Albany, 105 Donald St, CF24 4TL

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

Roll up! Roll up! Prepare to be amazed! Feast your eyes! The weird paint has come town! Come see the paintings of past, present and future. Gaze into them and see them reflect onto you, their wisdom giving powers!

A group of colourfield, minimal and hard-edge paintings born from themes close to the artists. These themes consist of the human condition, social structures and western culture.

The works while completed, only display what is necessary. This is for the painting to be explored and not forced upon by the viewer. Making this an active experience rather than a passive one. The paintings serve as a cues for the viewer to relate to.

The materials consist of oil paint and additives. The use of primers and sizes support stability and longevity. These are two factors that heavily inform the artist’s work.

All links to social media sites are found at my website: www.jasoncooksart.co.uk

Cardiff Vineyard Church

Sun 15 Oct, 1pm – 4pm

17: The Gate Arts Centre, Keppoch St, CF24 3JW

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

Cardiff Vineyard Church will be hosting an indoor picnic at The Gate complete with games, activities and lots of fun for all ages. Bring your own lunch (and blanket, if you wish). A free party bag will be given to all under 12s as a fun gift from the day. All welcome!

Clive Ward

Sun 15, 2 – 4pm

Meeting point: Outside Waterloo Gardens Post Office, CF23 5AE

A Treasure Hunt and Quiz and visit to a Roath Coffee Shop to engage families and individuals in the problems of Plastic Pollution associated with our oceans before the screening of ‘A Plastic Ocean’ as part of the Made in Roath Festival.

The Treasure hunt will be both engaging, interactive and light-hearted while raising environmental issues.

Facebook group:  Voice for the Environment Cardiff

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CREATE and James Cocks

Sun 15 Oct, 2pm – 5pm

Start point: Outside Penylan Library and Community Centre, CF23 5HW (full route TBC on our website)

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

Join the parade of community designed flags created over the past couple of months in collaboration with artist James Cocks and madeinroath’s CREATE co-ordinator Pip Tudor as we walk as a community through the streets and parks of Roath. The route will take in festival venues and sights, as well as important places for the community with entertainment along the way.

The walk will end at Inkspot, a 2017 festival hub, where there will be food and drink and a chance to sit and talk before kicking the festival off in style that evening with our opening night party ‘Congregation.’

The tea pavilion created for madeinroath 2017 will be an immersive space within which artist Tessa Waite will offer one visitor at a time a cup of tea. A simple tea ceremony performed within the space will offer the visitor full attention, and the possibility for quiet contemplation and connection. In doing so the person is valued and cherished.

The concepts behind the Japanese tea ceremony – such as the act of giving from the heart – alongside other tea ceremonies or rituals that are common to many cultures form the basis of this work. Participating in the tea encounter would offer possible connections to the rituals of those who participate, both past and present. It is also about creating a simple yet stimulating shelter within which participants can step out of their daily life and experience an act of giving and receiving.

Disability Access: Yes  //  Family Friendly: Yes

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Lucy Corbett

Sun 15 Oct, 3pm – 6pm,
Mon 16 – Sun 22 Oct, 12pm – 5pm

Inkspot, The Old Church, Newport Rd, CF24 1PU

Disability Access: No
Family Friendly: No

Bottles of poetry. Take a look, read a poem. Or two. Or three. And then? Take a bottle of poetry, if you like, and keep it or pass it on to a friend. This is an exhibition where all the artworks are available for anyone who wants one. Need some poetry? Take a bottle.

Poetry in a Bottle is created by Lucy Corbett, a poet, performer and filmmaker who thinks poetry is probably the second best thing you can find in a bottle (after beer). For more information about Lucy’s work, and to watch her filmpoems, visit her website: www.lucycorbettwrites.com

Charlotte Formosa.

Sun 15 Oct, 3pm – 6pm,
Mon 16 – Sun 22 Oct, 12pm – 5pm

Inkspot, The Old Church, Newport Rd, CF24 1PU

Disability Access: No
Family Friendly: Yes

‘Fluro’ is a duo of new fluorescent paintings by Charlotte Formosa. Visit in the daytime to view the artworks in full colour under white light. Visit in the evening to see the paintings come to life with glowing ultraviolet colour.

My work is informed by my research on the use of ultraviolet materials in contemporary underground subcultures, despite the medium’s frequent dismissal as a relic of the 1970s.

My work brings ultraviolet back into a gallery space. These paintings and illustrations feature intricate geometric patterns in bold, garish colours. In these ultraviolet pieces, the aim is to mesmerise the viewer using unusual lighting effects. By combining fluorescent paint with non-reactive acrylic paint, the depth of the artwork appears altered with some planes of colour seeming to float in front of others on the canvas.

A cabinet full of wearable UV art will also be on display for sale!

www.facebook.com/charlotteformosaartist
www.charlotteformosa.com

Sun 15 Oct, 3pm – 6pm,
Mon 16 – Sun 22 Oct, 12pm – 5pm

Inkspot, The Old Church, Newport Rd, CF24 1PU

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: No

My work is mixed media using pens, pencils, acrylic, chalk, collage etc. My principal interest is the human condition with particular emphasis on women’s issues.

It’s important for me to document my thoughts and internal processes in a visual, emotional and imaginative way. My work can have many and conflicting meanings but ultimately it’s up to the viewer to form their own opinion.

Sun 15 Oct, 3pm – 6pm,
Mon 16 – Sun 22 Oct, 12pm – 5pm and Sat 21 Oct, live painting and workshop.

Inkspot, The Old Church, Newport Rd, CF24 1PU

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

Experience the unique style of Chinese and Japanese ink painting. Using simple bamboo brush strokes on delicate rice paper to create beautiful reflections of nature. Expressive, quick, and fun! Everyone is welcome to get involved or watch Peng’s live painting demonstrations. Beginners and children can get stuck in with simple but effective bamboo and blossom paintings. Those keen to learn more can attempt complex flowers and birds. Finish off by learning your Chinese name and signing your work!

An exhibition and workshop for all ages run by Chinese born artist Peng Su, now a Roath local. Peng practised ink painting with his great-grandfather Baozhang. He studies nature for the small details and imperfections- choosing to include in his pieces that which many remove for decorative perfection. Having learned how different the Asian art styles are from what is traditionally taught in the UK, he now enjoys sharing the techniques with others.

www.baozhangbrush.com
Instagram: baozhangbrush

Emma Cownie

Sun 15 Oct, 3pm – 6pm,
Mon 16 – Sun 22 Oct, 12pm – 5pm

Inkspot, The Old Church, Newport Rd, CF24 1PU

Disability Access: No
Family Friendly: Yes

This exhibition is inspired by my own community of Brynmill, in Swansea, which has been hollowed out by the proliferation of Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMOs). These streetscapes focus on the summer months each year, when most of the students are absent, leaving this strange transient silence and sudden emptiness. There is an ominous aspect to each of these images and the intruding shadows hint at the transience of this peace. The shadows of pitched roofs of houses, chimneys and lamp posts, evoke memories of sun dials, one of the most ancient methods of marking time. Equally they too mark the absence of families and a balanced community. So, there is an underlying sadness here too.

Emma Cownie is a Swansea based contemporary artist. Read more about her story and work by following her blog at www.emmafcownie.com  or website www.emmacownie.artweb.com.  Emma Cownie Artist is also active on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Twitter.

Othniel Smith

Sun 15 Oct, 3pm – 6pm,
Mon 16 – Sun 22 Oct, 12pm – 5pm

Inkspot, The Old Church, Newport Rd, CF24 1PU

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

In celebration of the Festival’s theme of inclusivity, ‘We Are Family’ is a two-screen video installation piece comprising mashup filmic interpretations of: In Limbo, an operatic aria on the theme of migration, composed by Cardiff-based Dutch composer Carlijn Metselaar in 2016 as part of Music Theatre Wales’ ‘Make An Aria’ initiative; and ‘Brotherhood’, a stirring call to arms by radical U.S. poet Edwin Markham (1852-1940).

http://about.me/othnielsmith

Unity – Mural artist. Rufus Mufasa – performance poet and rapper.

Exhibition: Sun 15 Oct, 3pm – 6pm,
Mon 16 – Sun 22 Oct, 12pm – 5pm.

Performances: Mon 16 and Thurs 19 Oct, 8pm – 9pm.
Sat 21 Oct, 6pm – 7pm and 8pm – 9pm.

Inkspot, The Old Church, Newport Rd, CF24 1PU

Disability Access: No
Family Friendly: Yes

A number of ‘nature’ words, including acorn, ivy and bluebell have been removed from the Oxford Junior Dictionary. This was the starting point for work by Unity and Rufus Mufasa – a visual, verbal exploration of a changing world. Gentrification, the ageing process, graffiti, motherhood and mother nature all feature among the words, sounds, images and items the pair have created for the cafe space at Inkspot. Visual work is on show all week, with four evening performances.

Unity can be found at www.millimagic.com, facebook.com/millimagic and on twitter and instagram @artbymillimagic

Rufus is on instagram rufus_mufasa, twitter @rufusmufasa, and facebook.com/rufus.mufasa

Merran Singh Dubb

Sun 15 Oct, 3-6pm

Mon 16- Sun 22 Oct 12-5pm

Inkspot, The Old Church, Clifton St, CF24 1PU

Disability Access: No

Family Friendly: Yes

Merran Singh Dubb is a mixed-media artist, working with paint, sculpture and digital media. Symbolism plays a vital role in translating the narrative in his work, and his own cultural influences of Eastern philosophy and mythology can often be identified within the work.

merrandubb.com

Nick Fisk, Gemma June Howell, J Brookes, Sue Hamblen & Alex De-Gruchy.

Sun 15 Oct, 7pm – 10pm.

The Crofts, Croft St, CF24 3DZ

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

A Square Sunday featuring four former Square magazine contributors and poets – J Brookes, Sue Hamblen, Gemma June Howell and Nick Fisk – with music from Handsome Stranger and an open mic. Free back issue of Square magazine to all those who come along! See www.squarepublishing.co.uk for more info or find event details on Facebook.

A regular gathering of local and visiting musicians and singers

Sun 15 Oct, 8pm – 10:30pm

49: The Albany, 105 Donald St, CF24 4TL

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

A regular Irish seisiún, bringing together members of The Hairpin Bend Band with local and visiting musicians and singers and providing a wide range of Irish tunes and songs.

The Hairpin Bend is a traditional Irish folk band based in South Wales, playing Irish music for gigs and céilidhs in South Wales. http://www.southwalesirishband.co.uk/

Shirley Pearson, Sara Topham, Michelle Gregory and past pupils from Brynteg School Art Department.

Sun 15 – Sun 22 Oct, 9am – 5pm.

JeffreyRoss, 38 Wellfield Rd, CF24 3PB

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

This group show is a collection of works from art teachers Shirley Pearson, Sara Topham and Michelle Gregory and past pupils from Brynteg School Art Department. All have previously exhibited as part of the Open Houses at MIR and the pupils are now art and photography students. Works will include printmaking, photography, painting and mixed media work.

Mon 16, Tues 17, Thurs 19 Oct, 9am – 6pm.
Wed 18, 9am – 7pm. Sat 21, 9am – 5:30pm.
Closed for lunch 1pm – 2pm.

Cathays Library, Fairoak Rd, CF24 4PW

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

Ceramic pieces created by adults with learning difficulties. Fairwater Pottery’s aim is to enable students to fulfil their potential while learning different ceramic techniques.

www.v21.org.uk
Fairwater Pottery blog : Fairwaterpottery.wordpress.com/
Facebook page: @Vision21CyfleCymru

Athena Jones

Mon 16 – Sat 21 Oct.
Mon, Thurs & Fri, 9am – 6pm. Tues, 9am – 7pm, Sat, 9am – 5:30pm.
Closed 1pm – 2pm for lunch.

Rhydypennau Library, Llandennis Road, CF23 6EG

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

Rhydypennau Library Portrait is a voluntary project that began in June and is ongoing and growing. I have been offering to draw a pencil portrait of the visitors to the library and they have been sketched between 5 minutes and up to an hour or so, depending on how much time the sitter has to give. Volunteers have been aged between 0 and 90, many taking part in some of the brilliant groups and events offered at the library. The sitter can take away a photocopy of their portrait, while the original drawings have been collected together to create one big portrait, displayed in the order that they have been drawn. This I hope celebrates and reflects the library’s vibrant community spirit as well as the daily comings and goings, from the very regular regulars, to those who might pass through just once.

Jac Saorsa

Mon 16 – Sun 22 Oct, 10am – 4pm

The Broadway Drawing School, 59-62 Broadway CF24 1QE

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

This exhibition showcases drawings and wax sculptures of human anatomy. It derives from the artist’s work internationally in medical museums, dissection labs and operating theatres. Far from being gruesome or morbid, the exhibition demonstrates how a symbiotic relation between artistic expression and scientific knowledge has the potential to evoke profound emotion.

The idea behind ‘A Long Table of Curiosities’ resonates with the MiR theme of  ‘longer tables’ in that it breaks down walls that are often built between art and science and opens up the question of how we as humans can be, simultaneously, so very different and yet very much the same.

Website: https://jacsaorsa.wordpress.com
Twitter: @JacSaorsa

Gigi Jones, Glyn Jones, Glenn Edwards.

Mon 16 – Sun 22 Oct, 11am – 10pm.

The Andrew Buchan Bar, 29 Albany Rd, CF24 3LH

Disability Access: No
Family Friendly: No

Three artists explore the theme of place in South Wales. Painter Gigi Jones explores the post-industrial landscape of The Commons, Glyn Jones presents Port Talbot Steelworks: A Photographic Treatise on Late Capitalism, and photo-journalist Glenn Edwards captures the multicultural city of Somewhere People.

This exhibition is part of the Andrew Buchan Bar Festival Week Facebook.com/andrewbuchanbar

Charlotte Formosa.

Sun 15 Oct, 3pm – 6pm,
Mon 16 – Sun 22 Oct, 12pm – 5pm

Inkspot, The Old Church, Newport Rd, CF24 1PU

Disability Access: No
Family Friendly: Yes

‘Fluro’ is a duo of new fluorescent paintings by Charlotte Formosa. Visit in the daytime to view the artworks in full colour under white light. Visit in the evening to see the paintings come to life with glowing ultraviolet colour.

My work is informed by my research on the use of ultraviolet materials in contemporary underground subcultures, despite the medium’s frequent dismissal as a relic of the 1970s.

My work brings ultraviolet back into a gallery space. These paintings and illustrations feature intricate geometric patterns in bold, garish colours. In these ultraviolet pieces, the aim is to mesmerise the viewer using unusual lighting effects. By combining fluorescent paint with non-reactive acrylic paint, the depth of the artwork appears altered with some planes of colour seeming to float in front of others on the canvas.

A cabinet full of wearable UV art will also be on display for sale!

www.facebook.com/charlotteformosaartist
www.charlotteformosa.com

Sun 15 Oct, 3pm – 6pm,
Mon 16 – Sun 22 Oct, 12pm – 5pm

Inkspot, The Old Church, Newport Rd, CF24 1PU

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: No

My work is mixed media using pens, pencils, acrylic, chalk, collage etc. My principal interest is the human condition with particular emphasis on women’s issues.

It’s important for me to document my thoughts and internal processes in a visual, emotional and imaginative way. My work can have many and conflicting meanings but ultimately it’s up to the viewer to form their own opinion.

Sun 15 Oct, 3pm – 6pm,
Mon 16 – Sun 22 Oct, 12pm – 5pm and Sat 21 Oct, live painting and workshop.

Inkspot, The Old Church, Newport Rd, CF24 1PU

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

Experience the unique style of Chinese and Japanese ink painting. Using simple bamboo brush strokes on delicate rice paper to create beautiful reflections of nature. Expressive, quick, and fun! Everyone is welcome to get involved or watch Peng’s live painting demonstrations. Beginners and children can get stuck in with simple but effective bamboo and blossom paintings. Those keen to learn more can attempt complex flowers and birds. Finish off by learning your Chinese name and signing your work!

An exhibition and workshop for all ages run by Chinese born artist Peng Su, now a Roath local. Peng practised ink painting with his great-grandfather Baozhang. He studies nature for the small details and imperfections- choosing to include in his pieces that which many remove for decorative perfection. Having learned how different the Asian art styles are from what is traditionally taught in the UK, he now enjoys sharing the techniques with others.

www.baozhangbrush.com
Instagram: baozhangbrush

Emma Cownie

Sun 15 Oct, 3pm – 6pm,
Mon 16 – Sun 22 Oct, 12pm – 5pm

Inkspot, The Old Church, Newport Rd, CF24 1PU

Disability Access: No
Family Friendly: Yes

This exhibition is inspired by my own community of Brynmill, in Swansea, which has been hollowed out by the proliferation of Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMOs). These streetscapes focus on the summer months each year, when most of the students are absent, leaving this strange transient silence and sudden emptiness. There is an ominous aspect to each of these images and the intruding shadows hint at the transience of this peace. The shadows of pitched roofs of houses, chimneys and lamp posts, evoke memories of sun dials, one of the most ancient methods of marking time. Equally they too mark the absence of families and a balanced community. So, there is an underlying sadness here too.

Emma Cownie is a Swansea based contemporary artist. Read more about her story and work by following her blog at www.emmafcownie.com  or website www.emmacownie.artweb.com.  Emma Cownie Artist is also active on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Twitter.

Othniel Smith

Sun 15 Oct, 3pm – 6pm,
Mon 16 – Sun 22 Oct, 12pm – 5pm

Inkspot, The Old Church, Newport Rd, CF24 1PU

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

In celebration of the Festival’s theme of inclusivity, ‘We Are Family’ is a two-screen video installation piece comprising mashup filmic interpretations of: In Limbo, an operatic aria on the theme of migration, composed by Cardiff-based Dutch composer Carlijn Metselaar in 2016 as part of Music Theatre Wales’ ‘Make An Aria’ initiative; and ‘Brotherhood’, a stirring call to arms by radical U.S. poet Edwin Markham (1852-1940).

http://about.me/othnielsmith

Unity – Mural artist. Rufus Mufasa – performance poet and rapper.

Exhibition: Sun 15 Oct, 3pm – 6pm,
Mon 16 – Sun 22 Oct, 12pm – 5pm.

Performances: Mon 16 and Thurs 19 Oct, 8pm – 9pm.
Sat 21 Oct, 6pm – 7pm and 8pm – 9pm.

Inkspot, The Old Church, Newport Rd, CF24 1PU

Disability Access: No
Family Friendly: Yes

A number of ‘nature’ words, including acorn, ivy and bluebell have been removed from the Oxford Junior Dictionary. This was the starting point for work by Unity and Rufus Mufasa – a visual, verbal exploration of a changing world. Gentrification, the ageing process, graffiti, motherhood and mother nature all feature among the words, sounds, images and items the pair have created for the cafe space at Inkspot. Visual work is on show all week, with four evening performances.

Unity can be found at www.millimagic.com, facebook.com/millimagic and on twitter and instagram @artbymillimagic

Rufus is on instagram rufus_mufasa, twitter @rufusmufasa, and facebook.com/rufus.mufasa

Mat Troy & Dan Mitchell

Mon 16 Oct, 7:30pm – 9.30pm

Inkspot, The Old Church, Newport Rd, CF24 1PU

Disability Access: No
Family Friendly: No

Gather round pilgrims! The last campfire has been lit and needs storytellers to step into the light. You are cordially invited to listen or join with your own tale, be it funny, scary, sad, atmospheric or personal. Choose your time wisely… or not, it’s your pending oblivion too!

There may be opportunities to read on the night but spots are limited so please contact danmitchellcomedy@hotmail.com if you wish to tell us your story.

Find our more at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1907263986160167/

Suzi Dorey (Crayoncake)

Tues 17 – Sun 29 Oct.
Tues – Sat, 9am – 6pm, Sun 10am- 4pm.

Penylan Pantry, 72 Kimberley Rd, CF23 5DW

Disability Access: No
Family Friendly: Yes

This collection of images features illustrations of kitchenalia and food, fuelled by a passion for creative cooking.

Suzi draws under the name ‘Crayoncake’, creating works by hand in watercolour, pastel, markers and acrylic and finishing them digitally. Recent projects are diverse and include recipe books, theatrical posters, and academic literature.

Suzi started her creative life as a theatre designer, and also works as a jeweller and maker.

Find me on twitter @crayoncakedraws and https://www.facebook.com/crayoncakedraws

www.suzidorey.com

Rosemary Chaloner

Tue 17 Oct, 4:30pm – 6pm

Cathays Library, Fairoak Rd, CF24 4PW

Disability Access: Yes
Family Friendly: Yes

THE BALLOON GIRL experience at Cathays Library will be an activity-led event, with circus activities and reenactors in period costume. There will also be a reading by the author from the book about an accident that shocked the Victorian residences of Cardiff.

Louisa Maud Evans, a young girl who longed for fame, ran away from the security of a circus in search of her dreams. She made it to Cardiff where the international ‘Fine Arts, Industrial & Maritime Exhibition’ was in full flow. There she climbed aboard a gas-filled balloon, rose 10,000 feet into the overcast sky…and then?