The Gallery
MeltdownThirteen sculptors from Wales & beyond
19 September - 31 October 2009
Robert Booth | Mike Davies | Tom Fabian | Andrew Griffiths | Robert Harding | Harvey Hood | Alison Lochhead
Roger Moss | Lee Odishow | Dilys Jackson | Justine Johnson | Matthew Tomalin | Peter Randall Page
This group exhibition of sculptors from Wales and beyond, will focus not only on what images the iron represents but also what meaning iron gives to the sculptures. The work will range from the alchemical to the allegorical, from fine art object , to conceptualism, and craft. Wales has become a centre of excellence in cast iron sculpture in the UK and Europe, with the exhibition and the iron pour at the Waterfront Museum raising the profile of this resurrected artform.
Melt 6.30pm Thursday 15October
Meet at Mission Gallery and onto the National Waterfront Museum at 7.15pm for the event
This is a rare public opportunity to witness discarded iron being melted down and recycled into cast iron sculptures. The team from West Wales School of the Arts will pour about 250 kilos of molten iron into various moulds, both complex and simple, during an intense and dramatic period of activity.
A Mission Gallery and West Wales School of Art in partnership with the National Waterfront Museum Event
