North Wales Regional Equality Network’s (NWREN) Black History in Colour Project in collaboration with local schools creatively explored and celebrate the lesser-known stories of Black people who have lived in our local communities. This initiative built on a previous project by the Conwy Archives, which imaginatively reinterpreted the history of the African Institute of Colwyn Bay.
From an early age she experimented with textiles and quilt making and later moved on to making cloth pictures and dolls. In 2008 she found a canvas on the road and took it that she should begin painting. She loves colour and paints in acrylic and uses collage elements..
In 2008, Cardiff-based, Polish-born artist, Michal Iwanowski, came across graffiti near his home that read ‘Go Home, Polish’. Ten years later, amidst the backdrop of Brexit and a divided Europe, he undertook a gruelling 1900km journey on foot between Wales and his home village of Mokrzeszów in Poland. His aim was to explore and understand the notion of ‘home’. The journey took 105 days to complete, throughout which he posted a diary of his experiences and encounters on Instagram.
Paul Peter Piech (1920-1996) was an American artist, printmaker and publisher who lived and worked in Wales. A prolific artist who is known for his linocuts and woodcuts, he advocated tirelessly for social justice.
The Open Art is an annual exhibition open to artists and students aged 16 and over who live or work in Wales. To celebrate Storiel turning ten years old in 2026 the exhibition will be held in the main gallery this year, with a prize of £1000 for the winner of the Selector's Prize.
Gareth Griffith, a multimedia artist working in 2 and 3D from Gwynedd won the Gold Medal for Fine Art at the 2025 Wrexham National Eisteddfod. Here, you can enjoy over twenty of his works, as it was shown at the Eisteddfod in August.
Marian Haf is a fine art painting graduate and self-taught printmaker working predominantly with collagraph. The pieces in the exhibition are a mix of mountboard collagraphs and tetra pack prints partly made in response to her group residency at Knepp Rewilding.
Over the past twelve months, I have unearthed in my studio, many drawings and paintings from a decade and more ago, and re-worked them. In some there are vestiges of what was there before like palimpsests, and others have become completely new. The message of the work, on the whole, remains the same, although the world has changed.
Bert Isaac, painter, illustrator, printmaker and inspirational art teacher, was born in Pontypridd, South Wales, in 1923. He was a prolific landscape painter, and favoured places that showed evidence of past human activity and industry, such as Dorothea Quarry.