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Exhibitions at the RCA

Each year at the gallery in Conwy, we host around nine exhibitions featuring an exciting range of contemporary and historical painting, prints, sculpture, photography and craft.

Most of the artwork we exhibit is for sale, and eventually we aim to make it available to buy online. In the meantime, if you see any artwork you are interested in buying, please call in at the gallery in Conwy, email rca@rcaconwy.org or phone 01492 593 413 and our friendly staff will be able to help you.

We offer Collector Plan, the interest-free loan to help you buy contemporary art and crafts in Wales.

Imaging Wales : Then and Now/Llunio Cymru : Ddoe a Heddiw - Dr Ceri Thomas
Current Exhibition

Imaging Wales : Then and Now/Llunio Cymru : Ddoe a Heddiw - Dr Ceri Thomas

02/03/24 - 30/03/24

‘Imaging Wales: Then and Now’ / ‘Llunio Cymru: Ddoe a Heddiw’

— curated by Dr Ceri Thomas, VPRCA

In 1953-4, the Welsh Committee of the Arts Council of Great Britain toured the first Contemporary Welsh Painting and Sculpture exhibition around Wales. In the accompanying catalogue, pioneering curator, writer and painter David Bell (along with artists John Piper and Carel Weight) asserted:

“A feeling is conveyed in many of the pictures of love and compassion for humanity and a consciousness of the relations of men and women to nature, buildings, and everyday life in Wales. This concern with environment seems to augur well for the future of a Welsh School of Painting.”

Seventy years on, the word ‘environment’ resonates ever more strongly. Imaging Wales: Then and Now revisits a once modern Welsh art defined by its engagement with environment and juxtaposes it with Wales-related works by contemporary Royal Cambrian Academicians. Trained at the Royal College of Art and author of The Artist in Wales (Harrap 1957), Bell had strong family links with Llanfairfechan and Aberystwyth. His own art reveals his love of this country: his landscape paintings and drawings, and his portraits of family members and significant, Welsh, cultural figures.

Accompanying Imaging Wales is the book by Ceri Thomas Shaping Art in Wales: David Bell, Kathleen Armistead and the Modern Artist (H’mm Foundation 2023). It uncovers the trajectory of Bell and Armistead (the first full-time female art curator in Wales) and the shaping role that they played within contemporary, Welsh, visual culture.

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MINI PRINT WALES 2024
Current Exhibition

MINI PRINT WALES 2024

02/03/24 - 30/03/24

Discover a world of creativity within a 10cm x 10cm square. This captivating exhibition celebrates experimental printmaking, showcasing the work of emerging artists, community groups, and established print-makers.

The majority of the work in this exhibition is for sale at a very reasonable price, those makrked with a red dot below have sold in their framed version but unfamed prints of the same work may be available, if you are interested in making a purchase please call 01492 593413 or email rca@rcaconwy.org


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