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At the end of a long week of work I stumbled into the ‘Glamourie‘ exhibition with a colleague and was confronted with an array of crazy, intriguing and wonderful art pieces. A few quick snaps shown above… But if you do get to go to the show be sure to check out the dark mask hanging ominously on the wall.

“In Celtic magic a ‘glamourie‘ temporarily warps the normal aspect of an object or area. Through this magical agency a primitive shack may be transformed so as to appear as a lordly; rags might be temporarily glorified as resplendent robes, whilst leaves take the the semblance of silver and gold. In the art exhibition Glamourie, common themes will surface, as will applications of ritual, ceremony, reciprocity and appropriation; but none of these will have proscribed its content. We will be prevy to celebrations of the strange and pathetic, and to objects obsessive, mordant and morbid. One artwork may bleed into the next, whilst aesthetic and conceptual motifs are plucked from individual artists and fed back into the show. Glamourie seeks to appropriate and employ its constituent parts to fashion a entity wholly of its own atmosphere.” – Lewis Spence (paraphrased)

Just paid the Oriel Mostyn a visit in Llandudno. Amongst the few artists that are exhibiting there at the moment there is one particular piece which I absolutely loved. ‘Shelter’ by Gareth Griffiths began with a body of paintings focusing on Gareths childhood memories of camping in a particular blue tent in Jamaica. Gareth then began to construct small maquettes of tents and shelters which then grew into a larger project. He asked his sons (also artists) to construct their own versions of shelters and then began to collaborate with other artists on their ideas of shelters. At the Oriel Mostyn all the small shelter constructions have been laid out on a table top with an index on the wall. Just by looking at the variations of shelter designs and ideas was great, it gave me a lot to think about in terms of how we humans have built the spaces around us, what they mean to us and even what the ‘outside’ means to us. This exhibition is a simple and lovely way of conveying how we have come to perceive the idea of shelter and how we box our selves in and away from the ‘outside’ world almost deliberately differentiating ourselves from the natural world.

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It’s been a pleasure to help Karolin Schnoor create her new online portfolio. Check out her illustration design and shop!

Lovely video od a hike across Iceland. Appropriately wintery and made me miss my home in the countryside.

A recent visit to London lead to a great catch up with Karolin Schnoor and progress towards some very exciting times ahead. Above are two things which contributed to the lovely evening.

Here are some useful links concerning them:

http://www.ansgroupeurope.com/lwg.html

http://benjanssens.com/