Mark Folds, is a sculptor, who also uses performance, installation and video in his work, he is photographed here in his exhibition, Crisis (from massive to Macro) which opened in January 2020 at the Elysium Gallery/Bar in High Street, Swansea.
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Bourdon Brindille (Chris Harris)
Bourdon Brindille, sculptor opened his exhibition Breakage and Repair at the Elysium Gallery/Bar in High Street, Swansea in January 2020.
Dylan Williams
Dylan Williams, trained in Mexico and has exhibited in New York and Wales. Photographed here in his Elysium Orchard Street Studio.
“My work is made in relation to the landscape of the Afan Valley and the mountains in the area. My paintings and drawings explore the dichotomy between mans spiritual connections to the mountains and the residue of the industrial exploitation of the area. These concerns are explored through various forms of mark making, symbols and painterly values created from sketchbook studies in my studio.” – Dylan Williams
Phillip Cheater
Philip Cheater is a graphic artist with elements from society, a cornucopia of large scale optical semiotics. Photographed here in his College Street, studio, below the old Barons Night Club, where none of the spaces seem to have windows
Paul Nunn
Artist Paul Nunn photographed in his Elysium Gallery Orchard Street, studio.
Steph Mastoris
Steph Mastoris, is a typographic artist who uses traditional letterpress techniques. His work is concerned with the power and elegance of letter and word forms. Steph studied history at London University and is Head of the Waterfront Museum in Swansea. He is photographed here in his print room in the College Street, Elysium Studios.
Daleet Leon
Daleet Leon, was born in Israel and has lived in Swansea since 2001, where she studied for her BA and the Swansea School of Art, and in 2013 she completed her MA at the Royal College of Art. Her work involves painting, etching and drawing can be described as landscapes or dreamscapes exploring dimensions of reality and dream like visions. She is photographed here in her Mansel Street, Studio.
Graham Parker
Graham Parker was born in the Sandfields in Swansea near to Swansea Bay and the ever changing sea and shore line that has been a source for his painting for many years. His work has evolved from the dynamic realism of the storms that hit the bay, to the calm of his more recent abstract works. He is photographed here in his Mansel Street studio.
Ann Jordan
Ann Jordan works from the Mansel Street studio complex and is a Founder Director of Elysium Artists. She graduated from the Swansea School of Art with a Masters degree in Fine Art. Ann is a mixed media/textile worker, spinning, weaving, stitching and knitting her complex sculptural landscapes reflecting the traditional and contemporary with a domestic style that echo her first calling as a midwife.
Kate Bell
Kate Bell was the first Elysium Artist that I photographed in this project to document the artists working in the Elysium studios. Kate graduated from the Swansea School of Art with a Masters Degree and for thirty years has been teaching and following He her own painting career. Her studio in the Orchard Street Complex is full of her colourful and dynamic abstract landscapes of land, sea and sky with enough space for a sofa to relax over a cup of coffee, what a pleasure it was to see.
Carys Evans
Carys Evans graduated at the Swansea School of Art in 2013, she works mainly with the female figure, with water colours, oils and drawing etc., in her bright and welcoming Elysium studio in Mansel Street, Swansea.
Below are members of the ladies painting group who meet at her studio, the last meeting before the Covid 19 lock down on the 9th March 2020. They are pictured around the table from the left. Jane Warwick, Jo Maselis, Lydia Marouf, Mair Francis, Kirstine Dunthorne, Deanna Harding, Ann Jordan, Jane McCarthy, and Carys Evans, standing.
Jonathan Powell
The first time I met Jonathan Powell The Swansea School of Art was at the Townhill Campus. It was in 2005/6 I was doing my MA in Photography. In Fine Art, Also doing his Masters Jonathan was painting a large back and white oil. Impressed, I asked if I could take a photograph. (I will put it up, when I can get at my locked down archive).
It is now 2020 and Jonathan is Director of Elysium Gallery, which is the most exiting project to promote emerging and established visual artists to ever happen in Swansea. It fills a void that existed in 2007 for studio work places, and most important Galleries to show and sell their work. There are now studios for over a hundred artists on four sites in the City Centre including the New Elysium Gallery Bar in High Street. What a fantastic achievement. So here follows my project to document the artists, their studios and exhibitions, and add it to my Welsh Arts Archive.
Dan Samuel Thomas
Dan Samuel Thomas photographed in Elysium Gallery, Orchard Street Swansea.
“I studied my BA Fine are at Middlesex uni in North London and then went on to study my MA in fine art the following year.
I have exhibited in a number of different shows in London over my time spent there.
I have been working in South wales for tge last year and I am now one of the artists at the elysium studios in Swansea.”
Felix Subway
Felix Subway (Alfie Scheinman) – Artist – Musician, singer and Song writer, guitarist and flautist, studied at the Swansea school of Art and is part of the Swansea band lost Tuesday Society. Currently working from the Elysium Studios in Orchard Street, Swansea.
@Felix_subway_art on Instagram
Kena Brown
Kena photographed at Elysium Studios, Orchard Street Swansea.
Elysium Artist Kena Brown’s work Father and Mother at ‘Beep’ 2020, High Street, Swansea.
Katie Trick
Katie Trick, Elysium artist with her work, ‘ And We’d Laze for Days and Days,’ Acrylic on Canvas, at ‘Beep’ 2020, High Street Swansea.
Recent work by Katie Trick. Katie was born in 1991. She attended the fine art foundation course at the Swansea School of Art and graduated in fine art – painting in Wimbledon College of Art/ University of the Arts London.
Tim Kelly
At last after twelve months of frustrating lockdown, I have photographed Tim Kelly and his powerful paintings in his Orchard Street, Elysium Artists Studios in Swansea.
There are plans for so much more, soon we will have Household Names and Bird House at the Elysium Bar and Gallery, Peter Spriggs at Oriel Q, Narberth and the found Gallery opening on the 27th April in Brecon.
John Abell
John Abell – Literary Atlas Wales – ‘Hiraeth for Beginners – ’ Becca and her Children – Newton House – Llandeilo – 2020
Writer – Tristan Hughes – Revenant (2008).
John Abell studied at the Camberwell College of Art, and now lives and works in Cardiff. He is well known for his large scale wood block prints, and colourful water colour painting, linocuts and etchings, that explore the love and lust of the human condition. He is photographed here at the opening of the Becca and her Children Exhibition at Newton House, Dinefwr, Llandeilo in January 2020.
Iwan Bala
Iwan Bala – Literary Atlas Wales – Bute St. Cardiff. 2018.
Enlli: A Learning Aid.
Twenty Thousand Saints (2008) ‘Intrigue on Bardsey Island’ – Fflur Dafydd.
Iwan Bala Artist, Writer and lecturer, born in Sarnau North Wales, studied Politics and Social Sciences at Aberystwyth University and Graduated with his MA in Cardiff. A member of the Becca Group he won the Gold Medal at the Bala National Eisteddfod. He has exhibited across Wales, China and the Czech Republic, Politically aware his c.v. reads like a National Directory.
Valerie Coffin Price
Valerie Coffin Price – Literary Atlas Wales – ‘A Rioter’s Walk’ – Cardiff – 2018.
Amy Dillwyn – The Rebecca Rioter (1880)
Valerie Coffin Price, Artist-letterer – sculptor was born in Bushey, Hertfordshire and moved to Wales in 1956.
She studied at the Winchester School of Art, Chelsea College and the City and Guilds of London Art School. Collaborating and cross arts working have been essential to her arts practice.
The folding sketchbook was a key element in the ‘ A Rioters Walk ‘ project’. She walked and sketched following the narrative of the novel. The twists and turns of a journey reflecting in the interplay of art and text.