Roundabout Roath

EXHIBITIONS, INTERVENTIONS AND HAPPENINGS ROUND AND ABOUT ROATH…

 

Richard Powell: ain’tnozooinroath
Various locations
Coming about as a matter of looking up and making(taking) advantage of the possibilities that seem so distant when otherwise immersed in the ordinary way of things.
…the city is littered with signs, instructions, pleadings, inducements, the animal object images are none of these. Their lack of utility or placement within the common useful visual litany punctures the days (day’s) progress, and sets a course towards other reasons for being.
However.
There are plenty of people who live hoping to see the sign, and plenty of others who’ll never know that they’ve seen the sign, and plenty who know that there are no signs to be seen.

Places where the signs could be found: Pen Y Wain Road, Inverness Place, Braeval Street, Lochaber Street, Kelvin Road, Inverness Place, Diana Street, Daviot Street
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Kim Fielding

Friday 15th October – Sunday 17th October
KIM FIELDING WAS MADE in ROATH – FACT [...but when?]
Rose Garden
Milkwood Gallery
Rose Garden denotes suffering.
It’s dangerous beauty trapped inside.
The body formed as encapsulation – tightly melodramatic.
It’s a malcontent that needs to get out before it chokes its victim… Rose Garden comprise a photographic journey …80 images build a grid that is larger than life – the journey or repetition is bigger than the single individual – The journey is bigger than all of us…what will happen along the way.
Multi-media Film and Photography
Upstairs at Milgi, and window at 28 Diana Street
Kim Fielding’s work invites us in to a dark and dream-like world, inhabited by writhing figures, trapped in endless cycles of constrained  movement, as if in purgatory. Such fevered images are redolent of nightmare, horror, states of madness or intoxication and confront us with the filth of living, of being human, and the human propensity for darkness.

Betina Skovbro: Allotment Keeper
Waterloo Gardens
Sunday 17th October

A series of portraits of allotment keepers from across Cardiff exhibited in the Waterloo Gardens for one day only.
Cardiff has over 28 allotment sites; that’s roughly the same area as 165 football pitches, and they’re home to an army of gardeners. They are enterprising, social, natural and human spaces. This project has allowed me, through the lens of my camera, to explore these often hidden worlds. In capturing the images, I hope the exhibition provides an insight into a traditionally rural activity that’s very much at home in a modern urban setting…

Attenborough: Sound Installation
Roath Park Conservatory
Saturday 16th October /  Sunday 17th October

Conservatory entry will be FREE to all programme holders
Attenborough are a group of sonic artists and musicians who produce sound and music installations. They have produced site-specific works for The Grain Barge located on Bristol’s harbour-side, and the Roman Amphitheatre in Caerleon.
This weekend sees the wonderful Roath Park Conservatory transformed into a site-specific sound installation. The soundscape of Roath will mix with soundscapes belonging to some of the original habitats of the exotic plant life and animals living in the Conservatory. Additionally, a gentle musical ambience will play for visitor’s enjoyment. The result is a sonic reflection of the diversity of Roath’s community and culture in one of its notable landmarks.

Alex Smith: The Tits of Cosmeston Lakes
Roath Park Bowls Pavilion
Friday 15th October – Sunday 17th October

The birds of Cosmeston Lakes in Penarth fuelled Alex’s passion for natural history and became the inspiration for this work. I wanted to not only express the natural beauty of these common Tits but to create a piece which could serve as a contemporary visual reference for these wonderful creatures. These illustrations are a platform for raising awareness of common birds by capturing their essence and expressing their vitality.

Clive Nolan: Portraits of Roath
Upstairs at Milgi Lounge
Friday 15th October – Sunday 17th October

A series of portraits of Roath’s residents by photographer Clive Nolan, exploring the diversity and personality of those who live and work in the area. Clive Nolan was born in South Wales and, after 20 years of living in London and Egypt, has recently returned to his roots and settled in Plasnewydd. He works in a variety of photographic styles and genres and has a particular interest in the subjects of memory, identity and liminality.

Emilie Collins: Down in the Basement 
Sands Hair Salon
Friday 15th October – Sunday 17th October

Photographic evidence of the resultant work of Emilie’s basement residency at Milkwood Gallery will be on display at the very venue in which her primary material was collected- Sands Hairdressing Salon. The site specific piece raises issues about out relationship with fallen hair, ‘others’, as well as the value and function of everyday objects.

David Shepherd: Dolly Blue 
Shed: at rear of 11 Daviot Street
Saturday 16th October / Sunday 17th October

This work especially conceived for this particular site reflects my ongoing concerns as an artist over the past four decades. The imagery will be reclaimed and reprocessed from the changing circumstances of installations that are ongoing at New Mill, Carmarthenshire (pictured) where I am currently Artist in Residence. It is very likely that I will be dragging in salvaged materials and machinery from current activities that could involve the use of such things as cement mixers, garden incinerators, wet towels and bright blue powder. The new component that may be introduced and which is directly relevant to my first visit to the site will be a folding clothes drier.

Joseph Coughlan-Allen: Playback
The Gate Arts Centre – Gallery
Saturday 16th October / Sunday 17th October

On Saturday of the Made in Roath Festival, Joseph Coughlin-Allen, who works with sound, design and photography, will be making a series of sound recordings, which in turn will be played back on Sunday in the same location through a series of poorly disguised speakers.
The idea behind this particular installation is taken from The Invisible Generation, an essay by William S. Burroughs, describing various tape recorder experiments. One of the described experiments instructs the reader to make a sound recording and play it back on location at a later date, thus ‘activating a past time set’.

Dom Stocqueler and
Penelope Rose Cowley: Passions and Obsessions 
The Croft Pub- Skittle Alley
Friday 15th October – Sunday 17th October

The Croft’s new owner Stephen Walters wishes to bring back the community sprit of this Roath pub and welcomes artists and art lovers alike to come and enjoy an exhibition in their Skittle Alley.

Dom Stocqueler, creator of the Welshicons website, will be displaying his photographic work (pictured, top), whilst Penelope Rose will be exhibiting figurative paintings. Penelope Rose’s work, (pictured, bottom) will be part of her ‘Abstractions and Obsessions’ collection that will be touring South Wales and the West Country. Following the success of PHOTOGRAPHERS, PAINTERS, PERVERTS & POETS at the Green Rooms the two artists are looking forward to another exciting event at The Croft with maybe a few surprise guests.

Tiff Oben and Helene Roberts: The Cabinet Particular
with additional photography by Kim Fielding 
The Albany – Skittle Alley
Friday 15th October – Sunday 17th October

The Cabinet Particular photographs, taken within the Cardiff area including a picnic and jaunt around Roath Park form one part of installations built in situ. Encompassing an assemblage of set design, furniture, costume and performance, each is created in response to the location of the piece- for Made in Roath; the skittle alley in the Albany Hotel, built in 1895. In building/dressing the installation the artists aim to explore the physical and psychological particulars of the location, using the ideas of psycho-geography to find ways of reinterpreting it, not simply as geographical space but as a historical, mythological and imaginative space. Once built they inhabit the space as character; partly real, partly imagined. Looking at memories, change, absence and belonging, the artists use the space to create a dialogue of an ever changing environment directly linked to the history of the site, evoking layered place of differing realities and different personal histories.

Roberts’ background is in theatrical set design and Oben’s is in performance and art installation. Both now work within a conceptual art context and both utilize photography as part of their individual oeuvres.

 Doreen Barnaville: Indigo Impressions 
Wellfield Bookshop
Saturday 16th October / Sunday 17th October

A hanging which resembles a Japanese Noren (a curtain or hanging) – but made from narrow strips of fabric- each the width of a bookmark, or indeed the spine of a book- the surplus of which has been used to make bookmarks. The strips of linen have been folded, bound and stitched using the stab stitching of Japanese bookbinding.
Recent work includes Escaping the Library System, Having been a member of the Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dryers, the main focus of Doreen’s current work is the use of indigo dye, with shaped resist dyeing techniques (Shibori).

Marta Mendes: Tea Time Stories 
The Pot
15th October – 17th October

A mixture of story-telling, textiles and tea. An exploration of illustration and mark-making with stitch and fabric.

Heloise Godfrey
Vanilla Rooms
Friday 15th October – Sunday 17th October

Heloise Godfrey will be an artist in residency at Vanilla Rooms on Friday 15th October. She will be working in the window documenting the people she sees and the stories she hears on both sides of the glass. This document will then be left for the duration of the festival. This work follows a period of travelling around Wales drawing in salons.

Shapland and Brown’s Roath-specific marmalade 
Spice of Life
Friday 15th October – Sunday 17th October

This excellent marmalade follows a centuries-old recipe which has been appropriated and honed to perfection to accommodate the nuances of the contemporary palate. Jars of the confis will be available to buy, and you are asked to kindly bring a clean empty jar as well, ready for next year’s batch. Also available will be Roath-specific herbs such as sprigs of fresh rosemary and dried bay leaves on the wood

George Keane: Park
Roath Park Bowls Pavilion
Friday 15th October – Sunday 17th October

Park is a series of pattern images of selected viewpoints of Roath Park.

Malena Barron: The World Within Myself
Tea and Cake
26th September – 30th October

Malena’s recent work explores her relationship with things from her everyday life-visuals that attract her attention for an instant, but then get lost in memory. The photographs reflect dream-like scenarios that occur when these forgotten things are conjured back into the mind and form unusual compositions. The use of liquids and ice to decompose light in Malena’s work helps to invoke a surreal atmosphere.

Darren Floyd 
Tommy’s Bar, Howard Gardens
Friday 15th October – Sunday 17th October

Inspired by music and gig-going, Floyd captures, through painting in oil, the frenetic energy and colour of a great band live – displaying them appropriately at a fantastic hub of live music in Roath.

Jenny Jones 
Albany Pets
Friday 15th October – Sunday 17th October

It is the human experience that underlies my practice. The paintings evolve as imagery, collected and personal, is integrated within the process of applying and removing paint. In this process it is inevitable that a level of invention occurs to convey the essence of a place or of a memory. Through gentle distillation the paintings take on their own poetic interpretations. As the challenge arose to make a response to the pet shop in Roath, there were many thoughts that passed through my mind. My experience with animals, coming from a background that was surrounded by an agricultural community in West Wales, is very different to the notion of having a domestic pet. With the array of pet paraphernalia in the shop, I felt like a magpie trying to piece together things to inspire my work. The human influence in this world is to breed a perfect looking animal or to take something wild and beautiful and bring it to a different home. It was this notion that felt the most poignant, and so I set about finding images of budgies. The final pieces depict different types of budgies all having their own individual characters. fao.jennyjones@gmail.com

Gail Howard: Unexpected Room in Shopping Area
Corner of Donald Street and Albany Road
Sunday 17th October

When I look around me and I see the ever-increasing number of Tescos stores, pawnbrokers and pop up pound shops, I don’t
know, sometimes, all I want to do, really, is go home.
Installation using reclaimed materials

Marius Grainger: Pot Plants 1-5
AG Meeks Heel Repair
Friday 15th October- Sunday 17th October

Working mainly with fabric, Marius Grainger takes the idea of the monolith as a starting point for a playful contemplation of masculine identity. Informed by his training in upholstery, Grainger’s sculptures make reference to the cushioned comfort of furniture.

Funk your Fashion
Kidney Research UK, 49 Wellfield Road
Friday 15th October / Sunday 17th October
Two fashion/textiles students from CSAD will be designing
their own window display and give customers a free
‘make over’ using the shop’s wide variety of
vintage clothing.

Roath Art & Craft Bazaar
(in conjuntion with the Farmer’s market)
Mackintosh Sports and Social Club
Saturday 16th October, 9.30am – 1pm
Local crafts people selling handmade gifts, including cards,
jewellery, knitwear, patchwork, natural skincare products,
beeswax candles, pottery, fine art and so much more…enjoy
along with the Real Food Market, selling locally sourced food.

Picasso Griffiths: Caricatures
Halcyon Daze
Friday 15th October – Sunday 17th October
Local artist and animator- and one of Britain’s top caricaturists-
Graham ‘Picasso’ Griffiths, will be drawing caricatures in the window of Halcyon Daze over the festival weekend.

St Margarets Parish Church
Open to visitors
Sat 16th: 10.30am – 1pm, Sun 17th: 11am -1pm

Digital Photomontage
of Roath Park Primary Playground
Roath Park Primary School / The Gate
Saturday 16th October, 10am – 1pm
Resulting image from Dan Green’s workshop at the school will be shown Sunday evening at the Gate

Church Icons Tour

Parish Church of St Martin
Saturday 16th October / Sunday 17th October
Come take a tour of the Church and see metal-work and the
first wooden sculpture by Welsh artist Frank Roper, stained
glass windows by Hugh Easton, wood-carvings by
Mark Horricks and many many more fine artworks.

Let’s Dance
Roath Park Primary School
Saturday 16th October, 10.30am – 2pm
The school’s dance group are currently rehearsing for their
annual show in Barry Memorial Hall. They will be doing a full
run-through of the show on Saturday morning and would be
very pleased if anyone was interested in stopping by
and taking a look at what’s going on!

Earth Ball, Puppets and Parachute Games
with Martha Harding
Roath Park Primary School
Saturday 16th October, 12pm -2pm
Firstly, watch a puppet show and put on your own
performance. At 12:30pm the Earth Ball will be inflated in the
playground, then be rolled through the streets to Roath Park
Recreation Ground where, along with parachute games
children can play, bounce, roll the ball, and have
lots of fun.

Art and Craft Afternoon for Women and Children
Roath Park Primary School
Saturday 16th October, 2pm – 4.30pm
Music, craft, food, stalls, Mehndi painting and games…

Roath Appreciators
Roath Park Primary School
Roath Appreciators exhibit a collective textile hanging ‘Home Sewn’

biglittlecity
Talk by Dan Green
The Gate- Dance Studio
Saturday 16th October, 4.30pm -5.30pm
Talk about upcoming Cardiff-based project biglittlecity

Live Street Art
Milgi Lounge- Northcote Lane
Saturday 16th October, 12pm-7pm
Local street artists show off their spray painting talents in
Northcote Lane (rear of Milgi Lounge).

The Living Drawing
by Cardiff Life Model Collective
Upstairs at Milgi Lounge
Sunday 17th October, 3pm – 5pm
Observe the transformation of life models into a living drawing-
a composed piece that looks like a life-sized charcoal
drawing- both dramatic and engaging for the viewer.
www.a-muse.me
The Doodle Board
Milgi Lounge- Bar
Friday 15th October – Sunday 17th October
Express yourself and be a part of an interactive, changeable
art project at Milgi over the Made in Roath weekend- Thought
of the Day- IS THIS DOODLE BOARD ART?
www.milgilounge.com