Glynn Vivian Art Gallery

Family Film Fun at 10:30am this morning:
Smurfs: The Lost Village (U, 2017)
Enjoy a specially selected free family film every Sunday. ... All film titles available on request. Check website or contact the Gallery 01792 516900 for more information
Booking essential https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/glynnvivia n Free entry, suggested donation £3 #film #intofilm #glynnvivianartgallery #smurfs
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Tomorrow - Sunday 17th February:
Family Film Club Every Sunday, 10:30
... Enjoy a specially selected free family film every Sunday.
Smurfs: The Lost Village (U, 2017)
All film titles available on request. Check website or contact the Gallery 01792 516900 for more information
Booking essential https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/glynnvivia n Free entry, suggested donation £3 #film #intofilm #glynnvivianartgallery #smurfs
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This morning, 10:30-13:00
‘Collaborative Collage’ with Anna Barratt. Be part of a big scale collaborative collage, based on the tree of life theme from our new exhibition, Phytopia. #glynnvivian #enjoyswanseabay #familyworkshop #art... Image - Romare Bearden, 1971 Conjuror Woman.
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'Phytopia' opens tonight! Come and see this incredibly beautiful exhibition. Thank you to the curator Edward Chell and all the artists.

There is lots to do at the gallery this weekend:
Exhibitions Phytopia, Andreas Ruthi Paper Plates & Poisoned Porcelain, Then & Now: 80 Years of CASW, Dylan Thomas: Music of Colour
... Saturday 16th February:
Saturday Workshop Every Saturday, 10:30-13:00 For all ages, drop in ‘Collaborative Collage’ with Anna Barratt. Be part of a big scale collaborative collage. Image credit - Romare Bearden, 1971 'Conjuror Woman', chosen by Anna.
Based on the tree of life theme from Phytopia
Artist-led family drop-in workshop with the Gallery Art Trolley. Each week different artists respond to the themes and ideas from the Gallery’s exhibitions. All materials provided. Everyone welcome.
See our website www.glynnviviangallery.org for the full list of workshops each week.
Free entry, no booking required Suggested donation £3 #glynnvivian #enjoyswanseabay #familyworkshop #art
Symposium: Phytopia 13:30-16:00 Booking Essential. £5/£3 Concession https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/59909 5 Glynn Vivian hosts a symposium examining the themes of the exhibition. Speakers include exhibiting artists, Peter Fillingham, Rosa Nguyen, Alicia Paz, Yu-Chen Wang, and curator Edward Chell.
Saturday & Sunday 16th & 17th February:
Masterclass: Printmaking with Rose Davies 11:00 – 16:00 Age 16+ Booking essential, £80 for two day Printmaking Masterclass. All materials provided. https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/59160 0
Learn the art of printmaking in this fantastic two day workshop with artist Rose Davies
Root and Branch:
The creative imagery of the tree is rooted in the ancient oak forests of Britain, growing through the ages to branch into the present. From ancient Druidic and Celtic art to present-day fractal pop imagery, the concept of the tree rooting, growing and branching has inspired artists, designers and craftspeople for thousands of years.
Using two printmaking techniques, with additional chine collé and watercolour, and exploring the Phytopia exhibition, you will work with artist/printmaker Rose Davies to produce a small edition of drypoint etchings and at least one monotype inspired by the history and influence of trees in our culture.
Sunday 17th February Family Film Club Every Sunday, 10:30
Enjoy a specially selected free family film every Sunday.
Smurfs: The Lost Village (U, 2017)
All film titles available on request. Check website or contact the Gallery 01792 516900 for more information
Booking essential https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/glynnvivia n Free entry, suggested donation £3 #film #intofilm #glynnvivianartgallery #smurfs
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Why not take time out at Glynn Vivian? Last chance to book into: ------- Beth am gymryd egwyl yn Oriel Gelf Glynn Vivian? Cyfle olaf i gadw lle ar gyfer y canlynol:

Come to the Gallery tomorrow for a unique opportunity to hear Curator Edward Chell, Writer Tom Jeffreys and exhibiting artists Peter Fillingham, Rosa Nguyen, Alicia Paz and Yu-Chen Wang discuss the themes and ideas in our new Exhibition Phytopia, opening tonight at 6pm!
Tickets available online now.
Dewch i'r Oriel yfori i gwrando i'r curadur Edward Chell, ysgrifenwr Tom Jeffrey's a'r atistiad Peter Fillingham, Rosa Nguyen, Alicia Paz a Yu-Chen Wang yn siarad am yr syniadau a...'r themau yn yr arddangosfa newydd Phytopia, yn agor heno am 6pm!
Tocynau am gael ar-lein nawr.
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Missing.Can you help? Colli. Gallwch chi helpu?

We're so excited for Glynn Vivian at Night next Friday 22 February! Check out the amazing line up of artists...😄🏳️‍🌈

Visit the Gallery on Tuesday 26 February, 10am-12pm, to have your say on making our city a greener place to live and work and take part in the public consultations.
Ymwelwch ar Oriel ar dydd Mawrth 26 Chwefror, 10am-12pm, i datgan eich barn am cynllun i creu dinas wyrdd i bwy a gweitio, ac i cymryd rhan yn ein ymgynghoriad i'r cyhoedd.

This weekend | Penwythnos yma...

Tomorrow: with Richard Monahan Contemporary Conversations 12.02.19, 13:00-15:00 Age 16+
... An open, wide-ranging and thought provoking session to provide a supportive environment for people with an interest in creating art work and discussing contemporary issues.
Booking essential https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/glynnvivia n Free entry, suggested donation £3
Yfory: gyda Richard Monahan Sgyrsiau Cyfoes 12.02.19, 13:00 – 15:00 Sesiwn agored, eang sy'n ysgogi meddwl pobl â diddordeb
Am ddim, rhaid cadw lle https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/glynnvivia n Cyfraniad awgrymiadol £3
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Tomorrow: with Rhiannon Morgan
Art Babas 12.02.19, 10:30-11:30 Age 0-3
... Art Babas is a relaxed sensory craft session for parents and carers with pre-school children. From 6 months to 3 years.
Booking essential https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/glynnvivia n Free entry, suggested donation £3
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Babanod Celf: gyda Rhiannon Morgan 12.02.19, 10:30 – 11:30 Oed 0–3
Sesiwn gelf synhwyraidd, hamddenol I phlant cyn oed ysgol a’i oedolion.
Am ddim, rhaid cadw lle https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/glynnvivia n Cyfraniad awgrymiadol £3
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Join NAWR Arts and Education for this one off Teachers CPD session at Glynn Vivian. Book online now

There is lots to do at the gallery this weekend:
Exhibitions Andreas Ruthi Paper Plates & Poisoned Porcelain, Then & Now: 80 Years of CASW, Dylan Thomas: Music of Colour
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Saturday 9th February:
10:30-13:00 https://www.facebook.com/events/111550318 1960784/
Artist-led family drop-in workshop with the Gallery Art Trolley. Each week different artists respond to the themes and ideas from the Gallery’s exhibitions. All materials provided. Everyone welcome. Free entry, no booking required Suggested donation £3
‘Future Garden Worlds Painting Workshop’ with Richard Monahan Using the power of bubbles we will be creating futuristic landscape paintings where the limits are set only by your imagination.
And create your 3-D Victorian glasshouse and sycamore seed flyer! #glynnvivian #enjoyswanseabay #familyworkshop #art
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13:30-15:30 https://www.facebook.com/events/114508761 2323470/ Young Makers with Richard Monahan Age 12-16 Age 12-16? Young Makers is a fun, experimental workshop for those interested in pushing the boundaries of their art. The group will explore different art media including animation, sculpture, printmaking, illustration, drawing, painting and much more. Booking essential Free entry, suggested donation £3
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14:30-15:30 https://www.facebook.com/events/376918666 186191/
In Conversation: Tim Shaw
Tim Shaw RA is a Belfast-born sculptor and contemporary visual artist working in Cornwall. He works across a range of different mediums and scales, creating single free-standing forms as well as large-scale multi-sensory installations. Shaw was elected to The Royal Academy in 2013 and made a Fellow of The Royal British Society of Sculptors and a Fellow of Falmouth University the same year. This talk is part of RA250 UK, supported by the Royal Academy and Art Fund.
Everyone welcome.
Booking essential Tickets £5, £3 concessions
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Sunday 10th February:
Family Film Club 10:30 https://www.facebook.com/events/211272779 8789995/
Enjoy a specially selected free family film every Sunday.
10.02.19 Paddington 2 (PG, 2017)
All film titles available on request. Check website or contact the Gallery 01792 516900 for more information Booking essential https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/glynnvivia n Free entry, suggested donation £3
#film #glynnvivianartgallery #paddington2
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Join Belfast-born sculptor Tim Shaw RA, In Conversation with Daniel Trivedy this Saturday at 2.30pm. Only a few tickets left – book now! Tickets £5/£3 concessions
www.ticketsource.co.uk/glynnvivian
Part of RA250 UK, supported by the Royal Academy and Art Fund. ... __________________
Ymunwch â’r cerflunydd a aned yn Belfast, Tim Shaw, Academydd Brenhinol, a fydd yn sgwrsio â Daniel Trivedy ddydd Sadwrn am 2.30pm. Dim ond ychydig o docynnau sydd ar ôl – archebwch nawr! Tocynnau £5/£3 Consesiwn
Rhan o RA250 UK, a gefnogir gan yr Academi Frenhinol a’r Gronfa Gelf. __________________
Image/Llun: Tim Shaw, Mother, the Air is Blue, the Air is Dangerous, 2016. Courtesy the artist / Trwy garedigrwydd yr artist
#glynnvivian #swansea #Abertawe @royalacademyarts @artfund @enjoyswanseabay #royalacademy #AcademyddFrenhinol
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Tim Shaw was elected to The Royal Academy in 2013 and made a Fellow of The Royal British Society of Sculptors and a Fellow of Falmouth University the same year.
Come and hear Tim discuss his work and practice on Saturday 9 February, 2.30pm.
Book now In Conversation: Tim Shaw
... This talk is part of RA250 UK, supported by the Royal Academy of Arts and Art Fund.
Enjoy Swansea Cyngor Abertawe - Swansea Council Visit Swansea Bay, Mumbles and Gower Friends of the Glynn Vivian Swansea College of Art at UWTSD Coleg Sir Gar Gower College Swansea elysium gallery & artists studios
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Well worth a visit fab place then a nice cup of coffee

Visited today. Really enjoyed it with my preschooler. She loved the monkeys and the colouring. The coffee was great too.

Took part in a family workshop today. Highly recommend. Accommodated for children of all ages and abilities. Engaging activities for the children to participate in. Will continue to check for future events. Diolch.

Such a massive improvement to the building and the space. A really great and inspiring collection - so colourful. I really enjoyed and has made me feel that I want to come back and see the next collection.

Nice tea and cakes too!

Stunning and intelligent restoration which is an asset for the city. Great space for designing learning experiences.

My first visit to the gallery yesterday and it definitely won't be my last, everything about this gallery is just fabulous! From the uncluttered curating (which was just perfect) to all the amazing artwork showcased in this fantastic building!

My children and I love the new Glynn Vivian art gallery! We enjoyed walking around the gallery and then taking part in the children's Leonardos inventions workshop which they really enjoyed! Richard and Dan were so great with the children and had thought of lots of ideas to inspire and engage them. They particularly loved drawing on the big board with projections- fab idea!! We finished off our visit with a lovely big hot chocolate with marsh mallows and cream in the cafe! We look forward to participating in future workshops!

I really enjoyed visiting the Glyn Vivian. The Leonordo di Vinci exhibition was well worth seeing. The Art Gallery has beautiful pictures, china, and modern art and is well worth visiting.



After concluding my visit, I had a refreshing cup of Earl Grey on Coast Cafe on the ground floor of the Gallery. I look forward to my next visit to the Glyn Vivian.

First visit today since the reopening. It's a really exciting new space now and shows off the work to full advantage. The Leonardo da Vinci exhibition was very atmospheric. Loved the Glynn Vivian story, you can really feel the connection with him now. Looking forward to more visits.

A fantastic Art Gallery featuring both famous international and local artists - loads of workshops and events - particularly like the workshops for children

Really enjoyed the visit to the Art gallery, the renovations and modern extension. Felt that the whole place lacked enough art to give an enriched and broad 'Art' experience though. (Too many empty rooms and spaces) Use our contemporary range of wonderful local artists ( who already exhibit outside of Wales ) to promote the gallery and give a Swansea/Welsh perspective.

Why not introduce a Welsh version of the 'Royal Academy Summer Exhibition' to encorage up and coming artists on a grand scale ? Great to see the return and look forward to future exhibitions.

Loved the 'new look' (post renovation). However did feel that it needs to broaden the appeal. Fully support idea of RA Summer Exhibition featuring Welsh artists. Also take a leaf out of Waterfront Museum & make it less 'static'. Disappointed with coffee shop - limited seating, no character & pricy

I am so glad the art gallery is open again but I was so disappointed at how little art was on display (especially compared to all the ceramics). So many of my favourites from before the refurbishment are not out. We came as a family to do our own drawing of our favourite piece and really struggled to find 3 paintings we liked. Come on Glynn Viv! We know you've got some beautiful work in storage. Please can we see it??? The refurb is beautiful by the way.

First time I had been there since the Canaletto exhibition in the 90's, but it was well worth a visit. Specifically went for the Leonardo Da Vinci exhibit, but 2 hours going around the whole gallery.

Lovely to see the Leonardo da Vinci drawings but not enough going on elsewhere in the gallery for me to think of visiting on a regular basis.

In part, this is a brilliant gallery but I was sorely disappointed with the exhibition to celebrate the centenary since women began to win their battle for suffrage... A man had been chosen to curate this exhibition and he had filled it with picture of women, mostly by men... Speaking frankly... Wtf.

A day or two ago I wandered round the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery. In the Garden room I browsed the arts activity leaflets to see what's on. An attractive postcard caught my eye. I read it. I was astonished - an invitation to a children's art prize-giving ceremony, 1989. I turned it over. It seemed genuine. Sponsored by David Evans department store. Well, they'd be closed since I don't know when. Midland bank. How long since they were renamed? Then a doubt - maybe it's some stupid conceptual art rubbish? I took one and did some online detective work: 27th May 1989 really was a Saturday. Ms L Aldron had been a councillor from 1976 -90. 655006 was the old Glynn Vivian phone number. The talented child artist illustrating the card, Ms Al-Salihi, has gone on to be an actress.



I suppose they were in a cupboard and put out by mistake. Yet I can't help imagining staff straightening and shuffling round barely changing piles of leaflets for god knows how long.



Anyway, thought you might like to know.

I was really looking forward to seeing the new and improved gallery so joined the crowds on Saturday afternoon, it was busy and buzzing and great to see,we looked at various types of art.

Then went to see the long awaited Da Vinci's sketches, we were up to our fourth sketch when a security guard came up behind us saying you can't touch,no touching really loudly (there was no touching),we carried on around, got half way through and there was the guard again, no touching! At this point we left but heard him doing it again to another family. Very disappointed.

Also too many videos,where's the actual art? Painting, Sculptures etc.I only hope this will all be improved over time.

I will visit again if only to see Da Vinci's sketches in peace.

I have mainly expressed my views as a comment under Richard Powell's review of the 27 Oct. We have really looked forward to the re~opening of the Glynn Vivian and were disappointed to find minimal art on display (apart notably from the beautiful Leonardo sketches and mesmerizing Turner ~ which is very well placed). So much space seems to be unused with many bare walls. I do hope that the rooms on the ground floor in particular will be used in the future to display more of the rich heritage of Wales that is within this collection.