The Brunswick Presents…
In the first of a new series of art shows at cosy Swansea pub The Brunswick, new curator Rose Davis is presenting work from two local artists; Kara Seaman and Mike Mainwaring.
The Brunswick, 3 Duke Street, Swansea SA1 4HS
01792 465676
August 20th – October 5th 2008
Mon – Sun 10.00 am – 11.00 pm
£Free
Read on after the break for more info from the press release.
“For more information on this exhibition and the artists please contact Rose Davies on (01792) 524385 or 07817 000749 or by email at scribblah@hotmail.co.uk
HEADS
Mike Mainwaring: Human and humane drawings and paintings exploring masks and identity.
FADED REALITY
Kara Seaman: Unique atmospheric transphere and cyanotype prints of disappearing sights and places.
Mike Mainwaring: Background
Ynystawe-based painter and printmaker Mike Mainwaring has recently completed an eight-year cycle of paintings and prints, ‘Visible Invisibilities’, based on gay men’s experience of the holocaust and has produced a new body of work for this exhibition. Mike has spent the last 14 years working in the voluntary sector with disadvantaged young people, where his ability to paint was constantly challenged because “seeing the horror of those young people’s lives made it difficult to find a way to express those experiences in any form of art”. His new work in ‘Heads’ is mostly concerned with exploring the dark side of human nature, people in extreme circumstances and painful situations, in order to see the light side, questioning the purpose of the masks we all wear, what identity do they confer upon us and the reasons for masking that identity.
Kara Seaman: Background
Swansea-based printmaker and photographer Kara Seaman has created a new series of transphere and cyanotype images of situations and places that are fading away. Kara finds subjects wherever she is living and captures and re-arranges them, combining photographs of buildings and people with drawings and text to give a narrative and a context, telling the stories of the spaces that are disappearing. “I like the feeling of the transpheres as they look like faded photos that have been left out in the sun and cyanotype, you do literally leave it out in the sun, although it doesn’t fade.”
A new era for The Brunswick
For the past three years, exhibitions at The Brunswick, Swansea’s first and original arts pub, have been curated by local painter Bruce Risdon. Bruce is now moving on to other things and printmaker and scribbler, Rose Davies, is taking up the challenge of continuing to show high quality art by emerging artists. This new exhibition marks the transfer and both curators, along with the artists, will be celebrating the handover at the opening of ‘Heads’ and ‘Faded Reality’ from 7pm on August 20th.”
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