 Calendar of Events 2012 Information about Artsfests 2007 2008 2009 2010 can be seen at the bottom of this page |
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Life Drawing Sessions
fishguardartssociety@yahoo.co.ukSpring Term e-learning Centre, Fishguard 1pm - 4pm every Friday except the Friday 17th February during half term For more details please contact |
April 3rd - 26th An Exhibition of Sketchbook Drawings from the Sessions in Fishguard Library Gallery Library Opening Times |
| March 20th -April 24th |
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| March 31st - April 14th |
'Music and Movement' Members' Exhibition in Ysgol Glannau Gwaun A selection will be made from wall exhibits for the Exhibition in the Joanne Field Gallery |
| April 4th |
Workshop, Ysgol Glannau Gwaun |
| May 28th -15th July |
'Oscillation & Fluctuation' Joanna Field Gallery, Torch Theatre, Milford
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| July 7th- |
'Cauldrons & Furnaces Installation, The Bishops Palace, St Davids. Part of the Cultural Olympiad |
more details on Exhibitions Workshops and Events to follow
During the year there is a special Exhibition of
CDs on sale towards the Mashiko Appeal which we will exhibit alongside other Exhibitions
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As you will be aware in 2009 FAS took an exhibition of of works in CD cases called ‘The Cosmos in a CD Case’ to Kyoto which was very successful and we were given so much help from our Japanese friends.
Since the dreadful earthquake and Tsumnami in Japan in March we have
been wondering how we could raise some money towards the Appeal for
help.
Artists exhibiting CDs are giving,
from any sale, 100% to the Mashiko Appeal.
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You can reserve a CD by emailing fishguardartssociety@yahoo.co.uk or telephone 01348 891610
| Mashiko It is six months since the huge earthquake and tsunami struck the country. The magnitude-9.0 earthquake produced the sort of devastation Japan had not seen since the Second World War. The tsunami that followed engulfed the northeast and wiped out entire towns. Some 20,000 people were dead or missing and a further 400,000 were driven from their homes. I visited Mashiko in 2000, an extraordinary town of 400 potteries and kilns providing the main livelihood. Working in the Japanese Mingei way, these craft potteries have a reverence for clay and the pot which goes back centuries. This beautiful countryside area of Japan, 60 miles North of Tokyo, was chosen by Shoji Hamada, who settled there with his family in 1923 to because of its likeness to St Ives where he had co-founded the Leach Pottery with Bernard Leach. It is sad to hear that many pots of Hamada’s were broken and Mashiko Ceramics Museum and the Hamada Reference Museum have also been badly hit. The St Ives Pottery Trust have established an appeal to help Mashiko. There is so much work to be done. The following below was written just after the devastation brought about by the earthquake. ‘In Mashiko, nearly all the Nobori kilns fell down, and Mashiko’s firing is about to go out. We, potters, cannot help being shocked because the kiln is the soul of us. We cannot turn off this fire in “Mashiko, the Sacred Place of Mingei”, “Mashiko, Town of Handcraft”, which Shoji Hamada established. Also, the rebuilding of Mashiko Sankokan Museum, cultural heritage, which Shoji Hamada left, is a must. I would like to ask for your support.’ Ken Matsuzaki of Mashiko (Potter) http://potters.blogspot.com/ September 2011 The Nikkei financial newspaper report that of 31 cities, towns and villages severely damaged by the disaster, only four have finalised rebuilding plans. AP Gaynor McMorrin Sept 2011 |
for information on past events click links below
Artsfest Artsfest 2007 For photographs of Artsfest 2007, Exhibitions, Little Jewels and the Easter Exhibition, Louise Cook ..Cook in Black and White, Carole King's Drypoint Workshop, Willow Dolphin Workshop, Poetry at Tregwynt Mansion, The Children's Workshop and Town Show- |
Artsfest
2008 
Portrait Exhibition,The Easter Exhibition, Print Exhibition and Summer Exhibition Photographs Photographs and films taken during The Big Draw "What the Seagull Dropped", Workshops and Events |
Artsfest
2009 'Red Exhibition', 'Life Drawing Recent workshop pieces', The Bishop's Palace, 'All done with Mirrors', "The Big Draw- 'Screen Shots', "Vigil" and 'Mme Rhondda' in Tregwynt Mansion, 'The Easter Member's Exhibition' in Ysgol Glannau Gwaun. Cosmos in a Case in Kyoto |
Artsfest
2010 Photographs and film for the Blue Exhibition. Artsfest in Tregwynt, The Big Draw, Glenn Ibbitson's Exhibition 'Consignment' 'Glimpses of Ghosts' in the Bishops Palace, St Davids Alex Barr and Paul Steffan Jones at the opening of the Christmas Exhibition and the 'Half a Foot'Exhibition in December |
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If
you would like to
see 2006 exhibitions |
For photographs by Phillip Clarke Click here |
See page for Events and Exhibitions, competitions involving members but not directly Fishguard Arts Society
On 'Other Events' Page