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@ Becca Thomas
Exhibition
They Loved This Place
18 Jun 2018 – 7 Jul 2018
Event times
Mon the 18th of June: 14-20
afterwards: Tuesday & Thursday, 10.30-17.30
Wednesday, Friday & Saturday, 11-18
Cost of entry
free
Address
- Portland Buildings
- Commercial Street
- Pontypool
Wales - NP4 6JS
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- the nearest stop is Town Hall (Clarence Street). You can reach us by bus from Cardiff, Newport, Abergavenny, Blackwood, Brynmawr, Blaenavon & Cwmbran with one or no changes. Train and bus times and changes can be found on Traveline Cymru
- the nearest train station is Pontypool & New Inn, which is about a 20-minute (through the park) walk from the gallery, there are buses to and from town about every 10 minutes. It takes about 30 minutes from Cardiff Central. you may have to change at Newport for some services. There is also a direct train from Newport.
They Loved This Place is an exhibition of recent works by Cardiff based artists Becca Thomas and Clare Charles.
About
The exhibition consists of two installations: "Please Water the Plants" by Clare Charles and "Bench Making Experiments to Explore the Potential to Interrupt the Urban Environment for Well Being and Reclamation" by Becca Thomas.
Although Becca and Clare often work collaboratively, with each other, with artists and with communities, this exhibition represents an opportunity to for them to explore their individual artist practice further.
"Please Water the Plants"
Taking Diana as a pinnacle of social expectations of care, Please Water the Plants links colours, clothing, products and fabrics, and questions who we expect to do the labour of care.
"Bench Making Experiments to Explore the Potential to Interrupt the Urban Environment for Well Being and Reclamation"
Made collaboratively by Becca Thomas, Christian Hart, Sam Hasler, Nia Metcalfe, Anne-Sophie Ouvrier, Thom O’Sullivan and Ian Watson.
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The exhibition opens on Monday June 18th from 2pm, and throughout the day Becca and Clare will be preparing food in the space with artists Thom O'Sullivan and Nia Metcalfe. You are warmly invited to join them from 6 - 8pm at the gallery when this will be served, along with cakes from Penrhiwgyngi Farm Bakery. Steve Harris from Saving Vinyl Music will be playing records from his excellent stall at Pontypool Indoor Market.
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"They Loved This Place" is the fifth in a series of 9 exhibitions that will be organised in 2018 in 76m2, Pontypool by the*kickplate*project, with the support from the Arts Council of Wales, Torfaen Council's Arts Development and Pontypool Community Council.
76m2
2 Portland Buildings
Commercial Street
Pontypool
Torfaen
NP4 6JS
