"lost and found" in Bargoed - Welsh info

Mae “colli a chanfod” yn rhoi sylw i gopïau o ffotograffau analog a gyflwynwyd gan aelodau o'n cymuned leol ym Margoed a thramor.

Gyda ffotograffiaeth ddigidol o'n cwmpas ym mhob man dymunem atgoffa pawb am bwysigrwydd printiau go iawn nad ydynt yn cael eu dileu'n rhwydd ac a all barhau am genedlaethau. Gofynnwyd i bobl gael golwg arall ar eu llyfrau lluniau, yr arferai pawb ohonom fod â hwy a'u llenwi gydag atgofion o wyliau, dathliadau a chipluniau o fywyd bob dydd.

Gwelsom drysorau go iawn, adroddiadau am orffennol pobl a hefyd orffennol y technegau ffotograffig a phrintio na chânt bellach yn defnyddio ar raddfa helaeth.

Bydd y lluniau yn cael eu cyflwyno fel printiau a rhagamcanion ar ein waliau oriel.

Hoffem ddiolch i bawb a ymddiriedodd ynom gyda'u ffotograffau ac felly godi cwr y llen ar eu bywydau a'u hymdrechion artistig.

“colli a chanfod” yw'r chweched arddangosfa ffotograffiaeth a drefnwyd yn Bargoed gan brosiect *kickplate*  diolch i grantiau gan Gyngor Celfyddydau Cymru (Llywodraeth Cymru a'r Arian y Loteri), Datblygu'r Celfyddydau Caerffili on Cyngor Tref Bargoed.

"lost and found" in Bargoed

“lost and found” is an exhibition of analogue photographs brought to the gallery by our visitors from Bargoed and a little beyond.

In the times of digital photography we wanted to remind everyone about the importance of physical prints that don’t get deleted easily and that can last for generations. We asked people to have another look at their photo albums, the type that all of us used to have and that we’d fill up with memories of holidays, celebrations and snapshots of everyday life.

They are not only accounts of people’s past, but also of past photographic and printing techniques that are no longer used on a mass scale, as well as anthropological and historical documents.

The photographs will be presented as prints and projections on our gallery walls.

We’d like to thank everyone who trusted us with their photographs and thus gave us an insight into their lives and artistic endeavours.

The exhibition is opening in the Hanbury Road Gallery (52 Hanbury Road) in Bargoed on the 9^th of March at 12 and will run until the 26^th of March, Mon-Sat from 10.30 to 6.

Welsh info coming soon!

It is the 6^th and penultimate exhibition organised in this space by the*kickplate*project thanks to grants from the Arts Council of Wales (Welsh Government and Lottery Funding),

Caerphilly Arts Development and Bargoed Town Council.

"daydreams" - some more images

Evening everyone,

"daydreams" closed last Wednesday, but we'd like to share a few more images from the last days of the exhibition. Photographs of the exhibition walls will follow soon, for now we're busy preparing our new show, "lost and found".

"in passing" by Andrew Pershin in Brynmawr, "lost and found" in Bargoed and other news

Afternoon everyone,

we've been quite busy in the last few days! On Monday, we installed Andrew Pershin's exhibition "in passing" on the lovely old walls of our favourite local cinema - Market Hall - in Brynmawr; on Tuesday our project's Dafydd opened his exhibition "We Are Ghosts" in Blackwood Miners' Institute and on Wednesday, we closed "daydreams", a group exhibition of young Georgian artists: Tina Kazakhishvili, Kakha Kakhiani, Mano Svanidze and Sophie Berdzenishvili (for those of you who have missed it, photos of the gallery walls coming soon!). Next Wednesday, we're opening Bargoed's edition of "lost and found", an exhibition of old photographs submitted by our visitors. So as you see we've had a lot of work and apologies to those we owe emails to!

Here are a few photos, for now from the installation of Andrew's exhibition in Brynmawr and also a few images submitted to "lost and found". More photos and updates coming soon!

 

 "in passing" will be open in the Market Hall Cinema till the end of March