Cynfas

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Discover a range of articles and videos perfect for that 5-minute browse or take a deep dive into a variety of subjects connected to contemporary art. From in-focus articles and videos about artists and artworks, to exhibition highlights, creative responses and information about different projects, take a look at contributions from across Wales.

Cynfas is your space to find contributions, discussions, and points of view on contemporary art.

Unidentified Landscape, Banks, Evie, © Evie Banks 
Unidentified Landscape
Evie Banks
20 September 2023
The Rainbow, TURNER, J.M.W., © Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Art in Hospitals: Working with Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Sara Treble-Parry and Stephanie Roberts
15 September 2023
The Sea Horizon, No. 18, 1976–77, FABIAN MILLER, Garry © Garry Fabian Miller
Môrwelion: The Sea Horizon
John Freeman
4 September 2023
Open Call: Cynfas 11
Carys Tudor, Digital Curator – Art, Amgueddfa Cymru
25 August 2023
Studio (0X5A4983) SEPUYA, Paul Mpagi © SEPUYA, Paul Mpagi/Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Darkroom (disambiguation)
Dylan Huw
18 August 2023
Welsh Emergency Blankets, TRIVEDY, Daniel, © Daniel Trivedy/Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales 
Learning Article
Pendant, NIZIBLIAN, Lydia, © Lydia Niziblian 
Pendant
Lydia Niziblian
11 August 2023
Smatters of the Heart, CHIGANZE, Tanyaradzwa, © Tanyaradzwa Chiganze 
Smatters of the Heart
Tanyaradzwa Chiganze
9 August 2023
Peter Prendergast, HURN, David, © David Hurn/Magnum/Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Peter Prendergast (1946–2007)
Mari Griffith
28 July 2023
Y nefoedd yn toddi i'r tir, GWYN, Rhiannon, © Rhiannon Gwyn 
Hope Inn, PIPER, John, © The Piper Estate/DACS 2023./Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Who was Derek Williams?
Melissa Munro, Senior Curator: Derek Williams Collection
19 May 2023
Learning Article
The Chester Deluge - David Jones from sketch to print
Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
12 April 2023
Learning Article
What Can you Do in a Gallery?
Sean Kenny, Senior Learning Officer - Amgueddfa Cymru
5 April 2023
Learning Article
Apron Workshop with Adéọlá
Adéọlá
5 April 2023
Hands on Heritage: Demystifying Acquisitions
Neil Lebeter and Umulkhayr Mohamed
12 February 2023
Escape, REGO, Paula, © Ostrich Arts Ltd/Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Brutally Honest: The Female Genital Mutilation Series by Paula Rego
Melissa Munro, Senior Curator: Derek Williams Collection
12 February 2023
The Rules of Art? A discussion with artist Caroline Walker
Carys Tudor, Digital Curator – Art, Amgueddfa Cymru
12 February 2023
Learning Article
Talking to Children about Art
Sian Lile Pastore
11 February 2023
Cardiff v Everton football match. 1977, HURN, David, © David Hurn/Magnum/Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Learning Article
Welsh Football and Art
Sean Kenny, Senior Learning Officer - Amgueddfa Cymru
25 January 2023
Vertigo Sea, AKOMFRAH, John, © Smoking Dogs Films. All rights reserved, DACS 2023/Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
The Rules of Art?
Neil Lebeter
25 October 2022

Cynfas Issues

Issue 10: Fashion

Editor's notes
Fashion
Charlotte James
16 November 2022
All The Men Were Suffering From Dust
Ffian Jones and Siôn Marshall-Waters
17 November 2022
The earth remains yet flowers change
Laurie Broughton
22 November 2022
Boyos
Megan Winstone
22 November 2022
A Warm Embrace
Ophelia Dos Santos
28 November 2022

Issue 09: Sustainability

Editor's notes
Helo Dyfan Helo Esyllt
Dyfan and Esyllt Lewis
25 July 2022
Breaking into the Herbarium
Heledd C. Evans and Rosey Brown
25 July 2022
Dreaming in gardens
Grug Muse
25 July 2022

Issue 08: Making New Work – Artists Respond to the Now

Editor's notes
Making New Work: Artists Respond to the Now
Amgueddfa Cymru and Arts Council of Wales
20 December 2021
Reflections of Covid
Jo-Anna Duncalf
15 December 2021
She let me play the organ
Mia Roberts
15 December 2021
Texture Map
Philip Cheater
15 December 2021
A World View
Geraint Ross Evans
15 December 2021
All the Rage (The Princess and the Pea)
Emily Laurens
15 December 2021
Do you think they know we’re Gay?
Dafydd Williams
15 December 2021
The Betrayal Cycle
João Saramago
15 December 2021

Issue 07: Power, Money and Visual Culture

Editor's notes
Power, Money and Visual Culture
Beau W. Beakhouse and Sadia Pineda Hameed
24 November 2021
Paintings, Peasants & Philanthropy
Jon Doyle
24 November 2021
In Response to the Police Truncheon
She Elloise
24 November 2021
Art Work as Work: Contesting Labour
Stephen Heinson
24 November 2021

Issue 06: Art and Music

Editor's notes
Art and Music
Emma Daman Thomas
19 July 2021
When Warhol Came To Bangor
Kieran Owen
19 July 2021
O Fargam i Valletta
Francesca Dimech
19 July 2021
Ouroboros
Madame Ceski
19 July 2021
Snowdonia, Wales 1989
Sweet Baboo
19 July 2021

Issue 05: Cynefin/Habitat

Editor's notes
Cynefin/Habitat
Manon Awst
27 May 2021
Cynefin Conversation Cards
Celf ar y Cyd
27 May 2021
AGORA
Catrin Menai
27 May 2021
Twigs of Ash
David Mullin
27 May 2021
Tomorrow Stones
GWENBA
27 May 2021
No Change
Sioned Jones
27 May 2021
The Folk Song We All Know
The Angharad
27 May 2021

Issue 04: Queer Looking

Editor's notes
I Can Only Dream Of Reaching
Owain Train McGilvary
30 March 2021

Issue 03: Art, Food and the Environment

Editor's notes
Birds in a Garden
Jon Gower
3 March 2021
A Table for Discussion
Rhian Davies
5 March 2021

Issue 02: Arts in Health

Editor's notes
Edition 2 - Arts in Health
Angela Maddock
28 October 2020
The Pause for Hospital Art
Zain Amir
28 October 2020
Where are the Disability Arts?
Amanda Wells
28 October 2020
H for Health and W, Well… Wellbeing
M C Davies
28 October 2020
Comfort in Small Things
Angela Maddock
28 October 2020
The Art of Wellbeing
Maria Hayes
28 October 2020
Learning Resource: Hexagon Patchwork
Becky Adams
10 November 2020

Issue 01: Black Lives Matter

Editor's notes
The Art of Afro
Cindy Liz-Ikie
13 October 2020
Celf ar y Cyd – The Brand
Rithika Pandey & Mark Gubb
13 October 2020
Learning Resources: For the Unknown Runner
Marvin Thompson
13 October 2020