It’s been a year since the Big Little City exhibition at the Old library.
To celebrate the anniversary we are planning to put together a coffee table book documenting the project and exhibition. The book will be available freely online as a PDF, but we’d really like to produce a limited print run of 50-100 depending on interest.
The book would be 80 148x148mm pages, full colour and cost £10
Obviously we will try our best to encapsulate everything that made the exhibition special, but can’t guarantee that everyone’s work will make it in. We will have an artists index at the back of the book with the names and website details of people involved.
I just received an email from Robert Kennedy, a friend of BigLittleCity and thoroughly decent chap. Rob helped out with getting the Arcade Art winners exhibition up and running in September, and was so impressed with the space that he not only exhibited there himself, but he has decided to take on the space indefinitely.
Arcade Art will become a temporary art space within Queens Arcade Cardiff which will act as a showcase for viewing contemporary art production from Cardiff artist led collectives and will also serve as an information point for current art activities in Cardiff. Starting with a solo show by Andy Fung – for a two-week period from 27th to 10th November 2011. The official opening will be from 5pm – 7pm at Queens Arcade.
In his Rob’s own words:
I am trying to continue using arcade units as a non commercial showcase for artists. All I have as yet is good will from many people. I am building a 2012 programme which will incorporate many art practices and disciplines.
No money – so participants must be prepared to manage their get in and outs, presentation costs, invigilation etc. I will help and will draw some volunteers if I can. If people have a body of works or a project they want to introduce to the world then here is a clearly defined showcase in an unusual space.
Thanks to Queens Arcade it is free at present but in 2012 may be liable for reduced rates costs on the space. I will be looking for funding support for that for 2012.
This is a great development, and we wish Rob the best of luck with the project.
If you’re interested in getting involved in any way – drop Rob an email at robthings1[at]me.com
Arcade Art is situated in Queens Arcade, Cardiff (Queen Street entrance opposite The Friary/Superdrug)
Today sees the opening of the Arcade Art Winners Exhibition at Queens Arcade.
During the BigLittleCity exhibition, in partnership with Queens Arcade we ran a competition looking for artists to submit work under the headings of People, Places and Stories.
The winners were announced at the BigLittleCity closing party, and the prize was the opportunity to show and sell their work in Queens Arcade.
Janet Blackman (Places) with her characterful paintings, Brian Denman (People) is a fantastic sculptor working in bronze and stone and Danielle Wakeman (Stories) with her elegant fashion photography.
The guys got to work yesterday getting the exhibition ready and starting today, for nine days through September (Thursday – Saturday for the next three weeks) you can see what made these three artists stand out from the crowd.
Congratulations to Phil Morgan whose design was chosen by Spillers Records to be made into their next limited edition t-shirt. We’re sure you’ll agree it’s a worthy winner and join us in congratulating the runners up; James Gibbs and John Tucker.
Spillers were so happy with all of the entries and decided that some of the other entries should see the light of day. Congratulations to Ross Cocker whose “Birds & Bees” design will grace a line of Spillers baby-grows; and to Spike Clark whose “Buses” design will become a postcard.
We are delighted to announce the shortlisted entries for the Queens Arcade – Arcade Art competition.
People
Brad Woods
Brian Denman
Janet Blackman
Places
Laura Fear
Janet Blackman
Stephen Turner
Stories
Jack Basten
Danielle Wakeman
Congratulations to all our entrants and a massive thank you for your artistry and creativity. We’ll be announcing the winner on Friday at the closing party
Please come along from 5.30pm – 8.30pm Friday 22nd July for a last look at BigLittleCity: Cardiff. It’s been an amazing journey and we really want to go out with a bang. We have entertainment in the shape of Elemental Force – SUP and their youth development project Get Fresh and we may have some more special guests on the night too. Entry is free to all – so please forward this to anyone you think may be interested.
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