Do you remember this sculpture? Are you in these photos? In 1972 Garth Evans created a large-scale sculpture that was placed in The Hayes, Cardiff city centre, for six months as part of an important, nationwide sculpture project. Following a successful crowd funding campaign supported by Art Happens with Art Fund, the sculpture has been restored and is coming home to its original location.   In collaboration with Chapter Arts Centre a short documentary film is being made about the…

Chapter Arts Centre is delighted to present a major, three-part project with the influential British artist Garth Evans. Featuring: His first solo exhibition in Wales since the 1970’s The return of his sculpture ‘Untitled’ (1972) to Cardiff A new play ‘The Cardiff Tapes’ based on original recordings and interviews with passers-by as they encountered the sculpture for the first time   GARTH EVANS: BUT, HANDS HAVE EYES PREVIEW: FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2019, 6-8PM EXHIBITION: SATURDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2019 – SUNDAY…

10 YEARS IN THE MAKING – THE PRINTHAUS – CARDIFF’S ONLY NOT-FOR-PROFIT, INDEPENDENT, COMMUNITY-BASED SCREENPRINT WORKSHOP MOVES TO CHAPTER ARTS CENTRE. Printhaus is the brainchild of founding members, Rob Trigg, Tom Whitehead and Jude Lau. The trio previously worked together in another Cardiff-based print studio, Visible Art Screenprinters. At the time they shared the building with the prolific artists’ collective, Tactile Bosch. Through their experiences of bringing graduates into a professional print studio, combined with working in such a creative…

The fifth edition of the Italian Film Festival Cardiff will take place in Cardiff (Chapter Arts Centre and Penarth Pier Pavilion) between 14-17 November 2019. Starting from this year the IFFC will become the only festival dedicated to Italian Cinema in the United Kingdom which will award a prize to the best film as well as the best documentary from the past year. The first category will award a prize for the best Italian film released between 2018 and 2019,…

Credit: Emile Holba commissioned by Dimensions. Not-for-profit support provider Dimensions is launching a new photography project, giving a platform for people with learning disabilities and autism to show their most prized possessions.   The project, being previewed in Cardiff today by Dimensions Cymru and is the first of its kind to explore how seemingly everyday objects can play a vital role in giving people with autism and learning disabilities agency and ownership over their lives.   Personal possessions help all of us…