….25 July 2008..25 Gorffennaf 2008….

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The new Ruthin Craft Centre was opened on Friday 25th July 2008 by acclaimed Welsh actress, Siân Phillips, before a host of well-known figures from the arts world and Welsh culture. A spectacular one-man show, ‘An ArtisticAdventure’ by Andrew Logan, the famous sculptor, jeweller and organiser of the Alternative Miss World contest, was unveiled at the same time.

The event marked the culmination of a four-year project to create a contemporary applied arts venue with exhibition studios and educational facilities that can more than hold its own against similar institutions across Europe.

Since it was founded in the early 1980s, Ruthin Craft Centre has established an impressive reputation as perhaps Britain’s foremost venue for the display and creation of contemporary craft. In 2005 it was decided to replace its old premises with a purpose built building containing three large display galleries, a retail gallery, six artist studios, an education suite and café. An alluring design by architects Sergison Bates won the commission and the £4.4 million project, made possible by a major capital lottery grant from the Arts Council of Wales, has now been delivered as planned.

The new Ruthin Craft Centre opens this summer and says Grant Gibson (Editor of Crafts Magazine who had a sneak preview) ‘its visitors are in for a bit of a treat.’ ‘in many respects this is a very brave building, set against the Clwydian Hills (Sergison Bates) have come up with an unashamedly contemporary building that never seeks to overwhelm its context and contains a genuine sense of warmth. Craft has a new home of which it can be proud’ ‘The new Ruthin isn’t a glass box, it’s something much, much smarter.

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Agorwyd Canolfan Greff t Rhuthun ar ei newydd wedd ar yr 28ain o Orffennaf 2008 gan yr actores Gymreig nodedig Siân Phillips, gerbron cynulleidfa fawr o bwysigion o’r bydcelf yn ogystal â ffi gurau amlwg yn niwylliant Cymru. Cyfl wynwyd arddangosfa unigol drawiadol ‘Antur Artistig’ gan Andrew Logan, y cerfl unydd a’r gemydd enwog athrefnydd yr ornest ‘Alternative Miss World’.

Roedd y digwyddiad yn nodi penllanw ymdrechion pedairmlynedd i greu lleoliad i’r celfyddydau cymhwysol gangynnwys cyfl eusterau arddangosfa, stiwdio ac addysgol,sydd yn cymharu’n ff afriol gyda sefydliadau cyff elyb ardraws Ewrop.

Ers pan sefydlwyd Canolfan Greff t Rhuthun ddechrau’r 1980au y mae wedi ennill iddi’i hun yr enw o fod y lleoliad pwysicaf ar gyfer arddangos a chreu creff tau cymhwysol.Yn 2005 penderfynwyd trawsnewid yr hen adeiladau ynganolfan bwrpasol yn cynnwys dwy oriel fawr, oriel werthu,chwe stiwdio ar gyfer artistiaid, ystafelloedd addysgol abwyty. O ganlyniad i’w cynllun dengar enillwyd y cytundebgan y penseiri Sergison Bates ac y mae’r prosiect £4.4miliwn gyda chymorth grant loteri sylweddol oddi wrthGyngor Celfyddydau Cymru wedi ei gwblhau yn ôl yraddewid.

Y mae’r Ganolfan Greff t newydd yn agor yn Rhuthun ynystod yr haf’ meddai Grant Gibson (golygydd y CraftsMagazine a gafodd gip cynnar ar y fangre) ‘ac y mae’r ymwelwyr yn mynd i gael gwledd. y mae’r adeilad hwnsydd yn swatio yng nghesail Moelydd Clwyd yn un dewr arlawer cyfrif, ac y mae Sergison Bates wedi cael yweledigaeth o gynllunio adeilad cyfoes digyfaddawd syddyn addas i’r lleoliad ac iddo awyrgylch gynnes groesawgar. Y mae gan y byd celf a chreff t gartref newydda hawdd ymfalchio ynddo. Nid blwch gwydr yw Rhuthun newydd ond rhywbeth llawer mwy caboledig.
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