More than 250 works from amateur and celebrated Welsh artists are on display at the National Library of Wales until September 2025
A south Wales industrial landscape by Penry Williams, which is on display at the No Welsh Art exhibition at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.A south Wales industrial landscape by Penry Williams, which is on display at the No Welsh Art exhibition at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.at the country’s national library amid growing calls for a permanent national art gallery for Wales to be created.
Peter Lord, an art historian, collector and curator of the exhibition, said the “no Welsh art” comment, made in 1950 by Llewelyn Wyn Griffith, the chair of the Welsh committee of the then Arts Council of Great Britain, reflected the received wisdom at the time. He said it was “absurd”, but the impact of the claim still lingered.
The exhibition, which runs until September, features 150 of his pieces and another 100 from the library’s collection. “What we tried to do in this exhibition is create a model for a national gallery for historic Welsh art,” Lord said.But there are also many pieces that will be new to visitors, created by “ordinary” people such as labourer Thomas Rain from Llanidloes in mid Wales, who engraved pictures and inscriptions on to pieces of slate.
However, it also shows how some Welsh people chose to adopt the image and celebrate it, as illustrated in a vivid pub sign painted in about 1835 for theA particularly striking section of the exhibition features three paintings from the depression of the 1930s, including On the Coal Tips by, an image of a second home burning after an arson attack. “This was a really potent, political painting,” said Lord.
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