"They Loved This Place", second week + closing event

Evening everyone,

We're just coming to the end of the second week of Becca Thomas's and Clare Charles's guest show "They Loved This Place", featuring Becca's installation "Bench Making Experiments to Explore the Potential to Interrupt the Urban Environment for Well Being and Reclamation" and Clare's "Please Water the Plants". Here are a few more photographs from the gallery - the show is open till the 7th of July and will finish with a closing event running in the gallery between 19.30 and 21.00. Becca and Clare will be there talking about their exhibition, we'll have some snacks and refreshments available, and then from 21.00 to 23.00 artist Sam Hasler will lead a night walk from the gallery along the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal, finishing at the Star pub in Mamhilad. The walk is organised by Hinterlands Wales and is free for everyone to attend, with free bus transport from the Star back to Pontypool. You can read more about it on Hinterlands' event page, and if you'd like a lift back to Pontypool & New Inn Train Station or Pontypool bus station, you're only asked to kindly let the organisers know via free booking service on eventbrite.

   

  

"They Loved This Place" opening

Last Monday, we opened our first guest exhibition this year, "They Loved This Place", with "Bench Making Experiments to Explore the Potential to Interrupt the Urban Environment for Well Being and Reclamation" by Becca Thomas and "Please Water the Plants" by Clare Charles. The exhibition is on in 76m2 till the 7th of July and here are a few shots from the opening! 

Becca and Clare are also planning a couple events throughout the show, so keep your eyes peeled for updates on our twitter and facebook!

"They Loved This Place" by Becca Thomas and Clare Charles

Evening everyone,

We have a new exhibition opening tomorrow between 14 and 20!

"They Loved This Place" is a guest exhibition of recent work by Cardiff-based artists Becca Thomas and Clare Charles.

Although Becca and Clare often work collaboratively, with each other, with artists and with communities, this exhibition represents an opportunity to for them to explore their individual artist practice further. 

The exhibition consists of two installations: "Please Water the Plants" by Clare Charles and "Bench Making Experiments to Explore the Potential to Interrupt the Urban Environment for Well Being and Reclamation" by Becca Thomas.

"Please Water the Plants"

Taking Diana as a pinnacle of social expectations of care, "Please Water the Plants" links colours, clothing, products and fabrics, and questions who we expect to do the labour of care.

"Bench Making Experiments to Explore the Potential to Interrupt the Urban Environment for Well Being and Reclamation"

Made collaboratively by Becca Thomas, Christian Hart, Sam Hasler, Nia Metcalfe, Anne-Sophie Ouvrier, Thom O’Sullivan and Ian Watson.

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The exhibition opens on Monday June 18th from 2pm, and throughout the day Becca and Clare will be preparing food in the space with artists Thom O'Sullivan and Nia Metcalfe. You are warmly invited to join them from 6 - 8pm at the gallery when this will be served, along with cakes from Penrhiwgyngi Farm Bakery. Steve Harris from Saving Vinyl Music will be playing records from his excellent stall at Pontypool Indoor Market.

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"They Loved This Place" is the fifth in a series of 9 exhibitions that will be organised in 2018 in 76m2, Pontypool by the*kickplate*project, with the support from the Arts Council of Wales, Torfaen Council's Arts Development and Pontypool Community Council. 

​​76m2

2 Portland Buildings

Commercial Street

Pontypool

Torfaen

NP4 6JS

64°north open in Brynmawr

if you missed it at 76m2 despair no more, 64°north by Carmen Marchena Alonso is now being exhibited at the Market Hall Cinema in #Brynmawr.

it's already open and will be on until the 8th of July. the cinema is open everyday, but it's always good to have a quick look at their screening times to be sure what hours they'll be open.

the exhibition is free to enter, but if anyone asks just let them know you're there for the exhibition.

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www.markethallcinema.co.uk

"remnants of light" in 76m2

Morning everyone,

We've been running Rebecca Cairns's exhibition for two weeks now and we'd like to share some photographs from the gallery. "remnants of light" will continue until the 7th of June and our next exhibition will be a guest show prepared for us by Becca Thomas and Clare Charles from madeinroath, opening on Monday the 18th of June. We are also soon going to install Carmen Marchena Alonso's "64°north" in Brynmawr's Market Hall Cinema - we'll have updates about the opening date in the next few days!