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Bert Isaac, 'To The Hills' (1953)
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Joan Baker, 'Miss Cotton' (1949)
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John Elwyn, 'Allegory Mother Earth' (1944)
Exhibition
Border Country
13 Aug 2016 – 3 Sep 2016
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 11 Chester Street
- Wrexham
United Kingdom - LL13 8BE
- United Kingdom
Four artist contemporaries of the writer Raymond Williams whose paintings conjure daily life in South Wales communities from the 1930s to the 1950s.
About
The inspiration for this special exhibition is Border Country, the autobiographical novel set in and around Abergavenny by Raymond Williams (1921-1988), first published in 1960. The ‘border’ refers to the conjunction of England and Wales, but boundaries iterate throughout the book’s characterisation of south Wales around the middle of the twentieth century:
borders between town, country and coalfield;
borders between nature and man;
borders between generations;
borders between classes;
borders between close community and wider world.
This exhibition, curated by Dr Peter Wakelin, arrives directly from the National Eisteddfod of Wales in Abergavenny and continues on tour to MoMA Machynlleth.
