Best of Welsh Visual Arts 2023
Today, we’re reflecting on the best Welsh visual art of 2023 and revisiting some of our favourite exhibitions from this year.
It’s that time of year again! With Christmas nearing and 2023 drawing to a close, we continue our look back at some of the best art and cultural offerings to come out of Wales this year. Today, we’re reflecting on the best Welsh visual art of 2023 and revisiting some of our favourite exhibitions from this year.
Pax by MOMA Machynlleth
Pax commemorates the centenary of the Women of Wales' Peace Appeal of 1923-24. Engaging with a wide variety of media, such as painting, printing, photography, video and sculpture, this exhibition brings to light this astonishing, little-celebrated campaign. You can read the review here
Anne Cakebread at Oriel Canfas
Focusing on skyscapes, Cakebread's 2023 exhibition at Oriel Canfas attempts to capture the feeling of “looking up and realising how small you are”. The exhibition features a range of compositions, reflecting the variety of Cakebread’s wider work.
Gwales by Ben Lloyd Gwales
Gwales is an installation – a black silage-bale house, a 9-minute film, and a little paper pamphlet – which imagines a utopian island, Gwales, figuring the Mabinogi’s émigrés as present-day Welsh citizens striving to save the scraps of their culture. Topical, scary and brilliant.
Read the full list at Wales Arts Review, here.