Bangor Greadigol presents Irene Carruthers and Sue Evans. September - November 2010

Our last exhibition in the Dr China unit was of work by Irene Carruthers and Sue Evans. Irene and Sue are both graduates from University of Wales Bangor class of 2010 and this was their Debut since the Degree show. Although different in approach and style, both of these artists share a passion for unusual materials, and both are tracing a very personal story through investigations into history and ancient experience.




Irene Carruthers
Mud Drawings and Paintings
I have chosen to use non-conventional materials sourced directly from Anglesey. River muds, earth, clays and raw ochres - Materials with almost zero carbon footprint.
My current body of work is based on the riverine megalithic landscape surrounding Bryn Celli Du burial chamber in Eastern Anglesey where I made a seven day residency.
I have worked solely from sketchbooks and notes compiled during the residency - in a building through whose portal light has pierced for some five thousand years or more.
I am humbled.

Sue Evans
My work explores the subject of identity, persecution and displacement, which may have been taken from a specific historical event or situation, and used as my point of departure.
This starts as an experience that I put myself into and I become emotionally involved in the work. The ideas dictate what materials or media I use.
Artists who have influenced my work are conceptual artists Doris Salcedo and Christian Boltanski whose work also explores the subject of identity, loss and displacement.
My work is intended to act as a visual voice that I have given the victims, to tell their own story, and a horrifying reminder of what happened to them.

At the beginning of November Bangor Greadigol left the Dr China Shop to make way for a christmas calendar shop: the calendar shop closed and made way for a foot spa, complete with fish....so we are currently homeless, or, as we prefer to call it, "free floating".  Watch the empty spaces in Bangor, we could pop up anywhere.......

Bangor Greadigol Presents.....the first exhibition.

‘09 to Nov ‘09
Bangor Greadigol Presents.Sept
Work by Ann Alexander, Sheila Jones, Jain Koffler, Lisa Hudson and Louvainne Vickers, Jaci Atkinson

Our first show in the empty Dr China Shop in the Deiniol Shopping Centre, Bangor, Gwynedd.  It was very exciting, as we had been working for months to secure a shop, then all of a sudden, the good people at the Deiniol Centre offered us an empty unit, rent free and wanted something in it NOW!!!  The race was on to turn an old Chinese medicine shop into a professional looking art gallery in two weeks, with £0 budget.  Watch the exhibition come together on you tube at  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGNxvTmX2cw

Exciting work by 6 emerging local artists stopped shoppers in their tracks.

"Hedgerow" by Ann Alexander

Charcoal on paper 

"Babylon Birds" by Lisa Hudson

Fabric, Wire, Resin, Found objects

"Boat" by Jaci Atkinson

Wood, found metal

"Untitled" by Jain Koffler

Acrylic and Collage on Canvas

"Untitled" by Louvainne Vickers

Acrylic on Canvas

"Blackbird" by Sheila Jones

Oil on Canvas

About Bangor Greadigol

Bangor Greadigol grew in response to the perceived dilemma of empty shops and the threat to town centres represented by the current recession and changes in buying habits. In the short term we want to fill unused spaces with exhibitions, performances and happenings, and in the long term we want to be part of the development of the cultural and aesthetic life of the city. Although the city is in crisis at present, there have always been empty shops and unused buildings in Bangor, and we believe we have a long term role in providing a rich and exciting alternative use for temporary spaces, providing a link between the High Street, the University and other more traditional art and performance organisations.
The group’s interests include all the creative arts, exploring non-traditional venues to create new audiences for art and performance. A number of different groups are responding in different ways to the cultural needs of Bangor, and this group will liaise with these and not duplicate their efforts. As well as filling empty shop windows Bangor Greadigol will work in partnership with existing businesses providing art works and entertainment in shops, cafés and public spaces..
The group will represent local and community producers of art and be inclusive, whilst at all times aiming for excellence and innovation.Friends of Bangor GreadigolBangor Greadigol is currently unfunded and fully dependant on donations. For a donation of £5 or more, Friends will receive quarterly newsletters by Email, advance notice of new exhibitions, as well as invitations to any future events.