Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno
July 21 - September 27 2025
My 1997 series of photographs - Lesson 56 - Wales has been selected from the National Collections of Wales to be included in Oriel Mostyn’s new - Carreg Ateb / Dream or Vision exhibition, which is a part of the UK wide Triumph of Art festival that celebrates the bicentenary of the Royal Academy. Co-curated by Jeremy Deller, Kalliopi Tsipni-Kolaza, Joanna Wright and in collaboration with the young company participants at Frân Wen Theatre Company.
Carreg Ateb: Vision or Dream? brings together newly commissioned works by Welsh artists alongside works by Jeremy Deller and significant collection objects and artworks from the National Museum of Wales, Storiel, and Llandudno Museum.
The exhibition invites reflections on how we listen to the past and how we imagine the future. Moving between memory and material, identity and transformation, dream and vision, the artists engage with the land, languages, and layered histories that shape contemporary Wales.
This is a wonderful and compact show that juxtaposes art, craft, artifacts and performance which visualises generational memory, cultural and political values and the experience of being inside a distinct identity.