....Claire Langdown: Within the Grain – Stories in Wood..Claire Langdown: O Fewn y Graen – Straeon mewn Pren....

....15 January – 3 April 2022..15 Ionawr – 3 Ebrill 2022....

....Gallery 3..Oriel 3....

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Unique in style and narrative Claire Langdown’s wood relief carvings featured in solo and group exhibitions from the late 1970s through to the early 1990s when reluctantly she had to give up carving. This exhibition will give an exceptional glimpse at a body of work that remains unmatched. With assured touch and sensitivity Langdown created subtle works, rooted in the everyday and responding to life around her, from objects such as parcels, cardigans and squashed cans to pages of children’s comics and annuals. Windows and drapes are a constant, capturing both the movement and a moment in the billowing shapes, while views captured into and from windows and gateways offer glimpses of day to day life and out to the wider world.

Based in Blaenau Ffestiniog since the early 1970s a selection of recent paintings and drawings by Claire Langdown will be shown in our project space.

Curated by Nia Roberts

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Yn unigryw mewn steil a naratif bu gwaith cerfwedd pren Claire Langdown yn amlwg mewn arddangosfeydd unigol a grŵp o ddiwedd y 70’au hyd y 90’au pan fu raid iddi ro’r gorau i gerfio. Bydd yr arddangosfa’n taflu ciplolwg arbennig ar gorff o waith sy’n parhau’n ddigymar. Gyda chyffyrddiad sicr a sensitif roedd Langdown yn creu gweithiau cynnil, wedi’u gwreiddio ym mywyd pob dydd gan ymateb i bethau o’i chwmpas, o wrthrychau fel parseli, dillad a chaniau wedi’u gwasgu i dudalennau comics a blwyddlyfrau plant. Mae ffenestri a llenni yn bwnc cyson, yn dal symudiad ac ennyd o amser, gyda golygfaon i mewn ac allan o fynedfeydd a ffenestri yn rhoi cipolwg ar fywyd o ddydd i ddydd ac allan i’r byd ehangach.

Yn byw ym Mlaenau Ffestiniog ers y 70au cynnar dangosir detholiad o baentiadau a lluniadau diweddar Claire Langdown ochr yn ochr â’r cerfio pren.

Curadwyd gan Nia Roberts

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