Where the Severn smiles

08/08/2025

Preach! ☺️

07/07/2025

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10/06/2024

It's disappointing that this picture is expected to receive fewer liкes and shaгes than content featuring a naкed girl 😊

12/04/2023

13/05/2022

A new artwork for the green spaces is on its way

29/05/2021

Heddiw y tu allan i’r Oriel Davies
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Today outside the Oriel Davies gallery

In remembrance of the Enclosures Act / Er cof am y Ddeddf Amgaeadau

Commoners in Car Parks (or in our case, just out front)

16/05/2021

Oriel Davies has teamed up with printmaker and illustrator Alyn Smith to create a series of cards, over 15,000 in total, and we need your help to draw on them and bring them back to the gallery for an exhibition this summer. Alyn Smith is a printmaker and educator based in Cardiff, UK. “My work is...

26/02/2021

We’ve put 4 new tickets up on our website for Drawing in the Wild // Rydyn ni wedi rhoi 4 tocyn newydd ar ein gwefan ar gyfer Drawing in the Wild
4 week course: Drawing can be a means of connecting more closely with the natural world, even when nature is viewed at a distance through digital media. Without leaving home, participants will be introduced to the challenges of drawing nature in the field and develop strategies for capturing a sense of the wildlife subject in its habitat. Chris Wallbank is a painter, drawer and printmaker. His work explores pictorial space and the experience of landscape, more often than not in wild environments where he is most at home working in response to the changing elements and rhythm of nature. His interest in the role visual art can play in presenting themes of ecology in a new light has led him to collaborate with numerous conservation projects. These range from the long-term monitoring of breeding guillemot colonies on Skomer Island to the preservation of urban black kites across the metropolis of New Delhi. For this commitment to art and ecology Chris has been awarded the 2020 Birdscape Galleries’ Conservation through art award.

Connecting people with contemporary art and culture in Mid Wales in a stimulating, engaging, inclusive and welcoming environment.

07/11/2020

23/08/2020

With our latest 3 short walks we think we now have them in most of the neighbourhoods of Newtown. These 3 are:
SS 15 Garthowen and Black Hall Hill, 1 mile, 25 minutes details at http://newtown.org.uk/walks/view/garthowen-and-black-hall-hill
SS 16 Maesydail Circuit, 1 mile, 25 minutes details at http://newtown.org.uk/walks/view/maesydail-circuit
SS 17 Mochdre Industrial Green Lunch details at http://newtown.org.uk/walks/view/mochdre-industrial-green-lunch
All of these town walks are now put together on the map below.
Please let us know if you use the walks, you find any problems with them or if we haven't included your favourite neighbourhood walk.

07/08/2020

Bore da! Oriel Davies here! Dyma fideo gan The Scotsman of Hanna Tuuliki yn perfformio https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/scotsman-sessions-79-hanna-tuulikki-2930283
Here’s a video of Hanna Tuuliki performing. 🐦

Welcome to The Scotsman Sessions. With the performing arts world shutting down for the foreseeable future, we are commissioning a series of short video performances from artists all around the country and releasing them on scotsman.com, with introductions from our critics. Here, Glasgow-based Hanna....

25/06/2020

Watch a virtual tour of the exhibition Mushrooms: The Art, Design and Future of Fungi. The exhibition explores the colourful cultural legacy of the humble mu...