We Can Only See Today
We Can Only See Today
05/01/2019 – 10/02/2019
A solo exhibition by Yoke, artist collaborators Annie Nelson and Chris Woodward
For their first UK solo exhibition, Yoke were commissioned by Tŷ Pawb to produce a new body of work responding to research and time spent in Wrexham.
Influenced by an exploration of Wrexham’s market history and Tŷ Pawb’s current occupants, Yoke delved into the stories and narratives of its evolution. From the travelling fairs through to its position today as culture and trade meet.
‘We Can Only See Today’ combined newspaper articles, selected from Wrexham Museum archives, with new artworks including a new market bell for Tŷ Pawb, in a bid to examine this unique culture/trade relationship and share ideas with the audience.
Julie Cope
Julie Cope’s Grand Tour:
The Story of a Life by Grayson Perry
23/02/2019 – 22/04/2019
Julie Cope is a fictional character created by Grayson Perry – an Essex everywoman whose story he has told through two large scale tapestries and an extended ballad presented in this exhibition. The Essex House Tapestries: The Life of Julie Cope illustrate the key events in the heroine’s journey, while The Ballad of Julie Cope illuminates her hopes and fears growing up, coming of age and finding her feet in modern Britain.
This was a touring exhibition from Crafts Council.
Uptwist Downtwist
Uptwist Downtwist
23/02/2019 – 22/04/2019
Displaying work by artist Will Cruickshank alongside archive pieces relating to the former Celanese textile factory in Wrexham. A specially commissioned dance performance by students from Coleg Cambria was developed in collaboration with former workers from the factory.
Uptwist Downtwist uncovered and celebrated the significance of the Celanese Factory in Wrexham; the part it played in the lives of many local people, the fabrics that were produced and the friendships that were made.
This exhibition was curated to accompany the Crafts Council touring Exhibition ‘Julie Cope’s Grand Tour: The Story of a Life by Grayson Perry’
Futbolka
Futbolka
04/05/2019 – 21/07/2019
Simeon Barclay, Connor Brazier, Millie Chesters, Rhys Coren, Leo Fitzmaurice, Lucy Gunning, Adam Jones, Jamie Shovlin, Liam Stokes Massey, Rose Wylie
Using historical artefacts and contemporary artworks relating to football, Futbolka provoked responses to topics relating to access, equality and inclusion.
The title of the exhibition makes reference to the black and white striped uniform of the same name, which became the embodiment of post-revolutionary, soviet unisex clothing.
Nine Nectarines
Nine Nectarines and Other Porcelain
01/06/2019 – 04/08/2019
A first institutional solo exhibition by Molly Palmer
‘Nine Nectarines and Other Porcelain’ spoke to the audience about different registers of reality nested within the real. This could be in relation to different species and natural perspectives, but also the perspectives of hidden neurological difference, such as anxiety, depression, schizophrenia or bipolar.
The gallery is divided by a physical membrane allowing two contrasting halves to sit side-by-side, permeating into each other. On one side, an ambitious film was presented, while in the other half of the gallery, sculptural forms relating to Egyptian funerary forms and bodily mechanisms were displayed.
The title of the exhibition is taken from a poem by Marianne Moore, while the work itself references Palmer’s research into the history of medicine undertaken at Wellcome Trust’s library. The focus of this research was on magic as a technology of self-actualisation, looking at cultures within which magic was interwoven with science and medicine. Ritual and symbolism are utilised to reinforce cycles of wellness and create a balancing principle.
Nascent Inclinations 2019
Nascent Inclinations
21/08/2019 – 07/09/2019
Esther Adair, Irene Gardiner, Zoe Harty and Megan Howlett
Nascent Inclinations again celebrated the wealth of artistic talent emerging from Arts Schools across the local region. Embracing Tŷ Pawb’s geographic location as a border town, graduating art students were invited from schools in the north of Wales and North West England.
Partner institutions for this exhibition were Aberystwyth University, University of Chester, Liverpool John Moores University and Wrexham Glyndwr University, each represented by one artist.
PLAY-WORK
PLAY-WORK
10/08/2019 – 27/10/2019
Exploring The Art Of Working With Playing Children
Assemble, Morag Colquhoun, Gareth Griffith, Ludicology and Wrexham Playworkers
PLAY-WORK centred on the relationship between adults and children, and on celebratory documentation of radical playwork since the 1970s at Wrexham’s world-renowned adventure playgrounds.
The core of the exhibition was a playscape, designed and built in a collaborative process between the artists, Ludicology, Tŷ Pawb Staff and the local authority’s Play & Youth Support Team and Wrexham’s adventure playgrounds. Within the playscape was new commission by Morag Colquhoun, who created textiles specifically for interactive ‘loose parts’.
Functional push-cart artworks designed by Gareth Griffith also featured. The carts were fabricated by children and staff from wrexham playwork projects. Additionally, ‘The Voice of Children’, a film by Turner Prize winning collective Assemble, was be exhibited in the gallery.
Print International 2019
Print International
16/11/2019 – 01/02/2019
Following an open call for print-based artworks, over 85 artists from 8 different countries including the US, Canada, Japan were selected for the biannual print exhibition.
Alongside Print International, artist Pam Newall collaborated with Tŷ Pawb and Oswestry’s Designs in Mind to develop a live print studio in the gallery. Under the title ‘Make Print’ the studio created print designs that then featured on products that will be sold through Designs in Mind’s JOLT and Siop//Shop at Tŷ Pawb.
As part of ‘Make Print’, Pam Newall also curated an archive of prints and flyers which represent a specific era in the 1970’s. The archive was been generously loaned from the Bradford Print Studio by Dr Robert Galeta, Lecturer, and Pam Brooks, Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies, at Bradford School of Art.
