Woman up.

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Performers And Pop Up

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It’s International Women’s Day and Cinema & Co is hosting an exhibition and event to celebrate. Over 30 Swansea-based women artists will be exhibiting and we also have performances and films throughout the evening –
• Short film ‘Shattering’ featuring Leila Bebb
• Music with Niki Stitch and Patti
• “Sixty years and three minutes (of not being an artist)” – a short film from Aida Garton
• Dance, music and rap from Unity and Rufus Mufasa, Rachel Pedley and Tommy Boost from Avant Cymru
• Short film ‘Wolf Eye’
• Short film ‘My Muses’ from Rosie Scribblah
• Laura Niehorster reprises her TED talk featuring ‘Proud Pads’
• Short film ‘Dance’ by Leanne Vaughan-Phillips
• “Ripping” with Claudia Mollzahn – ripping and recycling, an active conversation relating to art and creativity throughout the evening. 

Niki Stitch
Musician Niki Stitch

 


• Goggi’s Cuisine – a popup kitchen with Pakistani food for sale throughout the evening

AND THERE WILL BE CAKE!!! So bring your friends and have some lovely food in a great venue with fab art and groovy performances. 

 

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So Much Talent

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By Alyson Williams

I have been putting together an exhibition for International Women’s Day at Cinema & Co and I’m honoured to be working with so many talented, creative and enterprising women. I’ve focused on creativity in a broader sense, including entrepreneurs Anna Redfern, who runs the unique cinema,  Goggi Shazi who is providing a pop up kitchen and Laura Niehorster who has designed and is marketing Proud Pads. And applied arts are represented by Claudia Mollzahn, Tina Wisby and Alyson Williams. Although I think that there’s often an artificial distinction between Fine and Applied arts. Tomorrow, I’ll talk about the talented performers who are coming along to the opening of the exhibition on Thursday (March 8th) from 18.00.

 

 

 

By Tina Wisby
By Laura Niehorster
By Claudia Mollzahn

 

Above: Laura Niehorster, Tina Wisby, Claudia Mollzahn.

My Part In Her Story

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I’ve been teasing you with snippets of a collaboration I’ve been working on with graffiti artist, Unity. We talked around some ideas and came up with the subject of Herstory to develop something for the International Women’s Day exhibition at Swansea’s Cinema & Co. We made a list of women who inspire our creativity and I researched them to come up with some visuals. Unity started the ball rolling by drawing the lettering and spraying the first layer of paint onto a large canvas and then it came over to me – Unity lives in the next city.

I had gone through a few different approaches to the images of these women – collaging, painting, screenprinting, but I finally decided to scribble them, well I would, wouldn’t I? I used mostly sanguine conté crayon with a little white here and there for highlights. I wanted them to emerge softly from the background rather than dominate the picture, because that’s how inspiration works for me. And now it’s gone back to Unity to finish. I’m really excited, I don’t know what to expect!

 

International Women’s Day at Cinema & Co, Swansea, March 8th, 18.00 – 20.30 – or later if we’re still rocking the bar! With 30 artists plus film, performance, music and a Pakistani pop-up kitchen. And Cake!

A Bigger Little Bit

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I’m teasing you here, showing you a bigger little bit of my collaboration with graffiti artist Unity. It will be revealed on Thursday at the opening of “International Women’s Day: Swansea Creatives” at Swansea’s Cinema & Co.

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A Snippet Of Inspiration

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Another snippet of my collaboration with the artist Unity….about the women who have inspired our art …. something that will be revealed on International Women’s Day ……. see below …..

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Stretching My Creativity

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It’s International Women’s Day in just under a week and I’m collaborating with the artist Unity on a new piece for the exhibition at Swansea’s Cinema & Co. The concept is based on those women who have influenced us creatively. The finished piece will be 1.5 x 1 metres and on canvas, which I’m not used to working on. I’ve been using conté crayons over the spray painted base laid down by Unity originally. We’re both pretty excited by our collaboration, it’s not something I normally do but it’s stretching my creativity and I think I’ll be up for more in future.

 

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A sketch of a friend relaxing in a chair, using sanguine and white conté crayons and a Faber Castell Pitt drawing pen, size M into my A4 hardbacked sketchbook that I had previously prepared with pieces of brown wrapping paper stuck in with Pritt gluestick. Relaxed pose, relaxed drawing.

A Delicate Tracery

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I spent an hour or so making drawings of the same tree during my visit to Dinefwr Park last Sunday. I’ve never tried drawing a single tree before and certainly hadn’t done several studies. It was interesting moving around the tree and drawing from different angles and also varying my use of drawing media. In this, my final drawing, I used my home-made walnut ink  and a brush to block in the tree that was lying prone on the ground. Then I drew the strong lusty new growth in sweeping upward strokes of white conté crayon. Finally, with a sanguine conté I made jagged marks in the walnut ink while it was still wet and then sketched a delicate tracery of shadows on the white tree trunks. I’ve never worked like this before, the experience has given me a creative boost.

 

I joined a group of creative women just last Sunday, a women’s circle brought together the artist Fern Smith, a recipient of a Creative Wales Award who has organised “Seven Sundays in Spring: All The Women I’ve Ever Met“. This, the second, was in the 18th century landscape of Dynefor Park in Llandeilo.

 

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Reaching Lustily Skywards

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I joined a group of creative women just last Sunday, a women’s circle brought together the artist Fern Smith, a recipient of a Creative Wales Award who has organised “Seven Sundays in Spring: All The Women I’ve Ever Met“. This, the second, was in the 18th century landscape of Dynefor Park in Llandeilo. We walked in silent contemplation in the medieval Deer Park which was idyllic in the cold but bright Spring sunshine. I spent quite a bit of time drawing one tree. It had fallen and lay prone on the ground covered in moss, just a fraction of its original root system still anchoring it into the ground. But out of the twisted body of the fallen tree sprang large, strong trunks reaching lustily skywards.

I had taken a pot of my home-made walnut ink and some brushes, it seemed appropriate to draw the tree with ink made from the fruit of a tree. The ink is lovely to use, like drawing with liquid silk. I drew in sweeping broad strokes, capturing the essence of the shapes before me, rather than the detail in them.

 

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