Locws International are very pleased to announce our artist commissions as part of our Art Across The City programme, taking place across Swansea from 6th Sept – 6th October 2013. The artists are:
Jacob Dahlgren’s work mixes sculpture, collage and painting with large scale participatory events. For Swansea, Dahlgren will lead one of his artistic processions through the city centre to the Amphitheatre, where a permanent sculptural work based on demo placards will be situated. Dahlgren represented Sweden as part of the Nordic Pavillion at the Venice Biennale 2007
Juneau Projects are artists, Philip Duckworth and Ben Sadler. Their idiosyncratic take on nature, technology, music and art comes to Swansea in the shape of five plywood sculptures attached to a copse of trees in Singleton Park. This will become the beacon for a series of events mixing bird spotting, pirates, fancy dress, storytelling and picnics. Juneau Projects were included in the Tatton Park Biennial, Cheshire, in 2012.
Laura Sorvala brings ideas to life via graphic recording, visual facilitation, illustration and design. She will undertake her largest work to date, a 8m x 8m cube situated in Swansea City Centre. This will capture and illustrate the many different people and stories of Swansea in Sorvala’s unique style. A live onsite drawing event will take place during the exhibition. Sorvala has undertaken commissions for Chapter, Cardiff; Ecod Design Wales and Diffusion Festival.
Matthew Houlding’s sculptures and collages draw us into a fantastic, retro-futuristic world, inspired by architectural forms and models, modernism and a childhood spent in East Africa. Situated opposite the Guildhall, Swansea’ Houlding’s work not only mirrors the building but references the nearby beach.
Recent exhibitions include, The De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill on Sea, New Art Gallery Walsall, ICIA, Bath.
A full programme of participatory events, workshops and education programme will be announced shortly.
