Exhibition

Gwyn Williams: Chipwood and Choppers

18 Sep 2015 – 1 Nov 2015

Regular hours

Friday
11:00 – 17:00
Saturday
11:00 – 17:00
Sunday
11:00 – 17:00
Tuesday
11:00 – 17:00
Wednesday
11:00 – 17:00
Thursday
11:00 – 17:00

Cost of entry

Free

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Chapter

Cardiff
Wales, United Kingdom

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  • Canton Library
  • Ninian Park
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Gwyn Williams’ new series of work is based on his dreams and interest in the old American way of life.

About

Williams searches internet auction sites for photographs and archive images that depict archetypal scenes of Americana: men and women dressed up as cowboys in a summer fair; a couple sat in a canoe on a vast blue lake surrounded by pine trees; snapshots that appear to have been taken directly from a family holiday.

Unedited and untouched, Williams juxtaposes these strangely nostalgic images with sections of chipwood wallpaper, a material which, for him, evokes memories of his childhood home in North Wales and days spent fantasising about the ‘American Dream’ 

Part of the Art in the Bar programme at Chapter and part of Diffusion Festival

About Diffusion

http://diffusionfestival.org/

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