Artist Zena Blackwell’s first solo show at Roath’s Cardiff M.A.D.E is a high contrast, intensely critical look at constructions of childhood and the domestic. I’m having a slothful Saturday. Late start, no bread for toast. No milk for coffee. I make my way, thankfully, to cardiff MADE’s beautiful Lochaber Street café. There’s a £5 minimum for card payments, so with little persuasion I order myself a latte and two slices of cake. The barista compliments my nails. I blushingly tell…

A pop-up exhibition to showcase the work of artists living with disabilities arrives at Cardiff Central this week, before continuing its tour of Great Britain. The travelling art exhibition, No Boundaries, which will be open to the public from 17th September – 6th October at Cardiff Central Station, has been designed to encourage people with disabilities to travel without boundaries. The 20-piece exhibition is made of artwork created by artists with a range of abilities, disabilities, age and artistic experience….

New exhibition celebrates forty years of Ffotogallery’s work in Wales and internationally   In September 1978, the first gallery in Wales dedicated to photography opened in Charles Street, Cardiff, under the name Yr Oriel Ffotograffeg. Changing its name to Ffotogallery in 1981, the organisation continues to thrive forty years on and plans to open new city centre premises in Cardiff in its birthday month of September 2018. Chronicle is a new exhibition that draws on archival and contemporary material to tell…

Sarah Jane Brown has been selected to exhibit her expressive seascape and landscape paintings of Pembrokeshire at an Exhibition of Contemporary Welsh Art for an annual Welsh cultural event based in London. The exhibition takes place at the London Welsh Centre from 9th to 10th March, and Sarah Jane’s work will be exhibited alongside a number of other notable Welsh artists. This unique event provides the opportunity for visitors to enjoy an exclusive exhibition of Welsh art in London, with…

The Italian Cultural Centre Wales presents its second Italian Film Festival Cardiff 2016 (IFFC), which will run from the23-27 November at Penarth Pier Pavilion and Chapter Arts Centre. The Festival brings the very best contemporary Italian films to Penarth and Cardiff, this year showing nine feature films and a selection of short animated films, all of them premiering in Wales and the UK. These films explore the intimate, melancholic, romantic and humorous sides of Italy and examine how lives and…

this Thursday, 26th March, from 6-9pm Pip Barrett  & Taylor Zepeda Chemical Wedding Two very different artists, Taylor Zepeda and Pip Barrett’s work is shown side by side, distinctly but commonly seeking to understand or reconcile a their personal position within contemporary culture. Californian Zepeda mashes up throwaway tat, the non-biodegradable with nature and the mystical, to create objects which present a false or futile attempt at transcendence. Instantly attention grabbbing; Barrett’s painted works are humourous and naive, masking a more complex dialogue with…