Exhibition
Wales Contemporary Exhibtion
1 Dec 2022 – 4 Dec 2022
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- Oxo Tower Wharf
- Barge House St
- London
London - SE1 9PH
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Waterloo, Blackfriars, Temple
- Waterloo
The Wales Contemporary / Cymru Gyfoes 2022 exhibition is touring to gallery@oxo, London. Viewers can expect abstract and surreal scenes of imagination, arresting portraits and striking sculptural forms to name but a few.
About
The Wales Contemporary / Cymru Gyfoes 2022 exhibition is touring to gallery@oxo, London, after opening in Milford Haven, Wales.The exhibition will be free to visit, from Thursday 1 December to Sunday 4 December 2022, every day from 11am to 6pm.
It showcases 144 works by 117 artists, shortlisted from 2,000 entries by artists living across 42 countries.
The 144 works in the exhibition and the 10 award winners were selected by: Rebecca Salter RA, President of the Royal Academy, Morfudd Bevan, curator of the National Collection, The National Library of Wales and Jill Piercy, curator and writer.
Developed in 2019 by the Waterfront Gallery with the support of the Welsh Government, Wales Contemporary / Cymru Gyfoes, has established a strong reputation for championing and rewarding contemporary artists and their diverse practices, promising to inspire wide audiences of art lovers.
The first and second iterations of Wales Contemporary invited work ‘Inspired by Wales’. The 2022 exhibition, in its third instalment, has expanded its horizons and invited entries in any subject matter, across mediums of painting, sculpture, drawing, print, ceramic, glass, textile, collage, mixed media, and more. Placed in dialogue with one another, the works within this year’s exhibition not only present representations of what makes Wales Welsh, but brings together a dynamic selection showcasing exceptional, diverse, and original expressions of contemporary practice across the globe today.