(2013-2014)
Public Information was curated by Peter Finnemore and Craig Wood as a commission initiated by Oriel Myrddin Gallery to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Dylan Thomas as part of the DT 100 Festival. As a starting point we gathered around ideas of Thomas’ wartime propaganda scripts for the Ministry of Public Information. These related to the building of a post war consensus of equality within affordable housing, work, health, welfare and nationalized industrial and public utilities. Communal values that have been eroded over a 35 year period and accelerated as a political and financial land grab since the banking crisis of 2008. To bring these current and pressing issues to the fore we created a public and communal forum where the arts become visible cultural barricade in the form of a series of Public Information Nights.
Public Information Nightsare collaborative events, rallying calls for shared cultural values of generosity, commonality and to the joy of creative participation. Participants included Craig Wood and Peter Finnemore, Peski Records, Garmon Gruffydd, Canolfan Hamdden, Jason and Becky, Geraint Ffrancon, AE 101 Art Collective, Hywel Edwards, Tim Saunders & Joehari Lee.
> Film
> Installations
> Publication
No
No No No No No Yes, Poster, 73 x 58 cm, Fine Art Archival Print, 2014
(collaboration Peter Finnemore & Craig Wood)
Make
Yourself Up, Poster, 73 x 58 cm, Fine Art Archival Print, 2014 (collaboration
Peter Finnemore & Craig Wood)
It
Was Not a Revolution…, Poster, 73 x 58 cm, Fine Art Archival Print, 2014
(collaboration Peter Finnemore & Craig Wood)
Welcome
to Faschire, Poster, 73 x 58 cm, Fine Art Archival Print, 2014 (collaboration
Peter Finnemore & Craig Wood)
(2013-2014)
Public Information was curated by Peter Finnemore and Craig Wood as a commission initiated by Oriel Myrddin Gallery to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Dylan Thomas as part of the DT 100 Festival. As a starting point we gathered around ideas of Thomas’ wartime propaganda scripts for the Ministry of Public Information. These related to the building of a post war consensus of equality within affordable housing, work, health, welfare and nationalized industrial and public utilities. Communal values that have been eroded over a 35 year period and accelerated as a political and financial land grab since the banking crisis of 2008. To bring these current and pressing issues to the fore we created a public and communal forum where the arts become visible cultural barricade in the form of a series of Public Information Nights.
Public Information Nightsare collaborative events, rallying calls for shared cultural values of generosity, commonality and to the joy of creative participation. Participants included Craig Wood and Peter Finnemore, Peski Records, Garmon Gruffydd, Canolfan Hamdden, Jason and Becky, Geraint Ffrancon, AE 101 Art Collective, Hywel Edwards, Tim Saunders & Joehari Lee.
Public Information was curated by Peter Finnemore and Craig Wood as a commission initiated by Oriel Myrddin Gallery to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Dylan Thomas as part of the DT 100 Festival. As a starting point we gathered around ideas of Thomas’ wartime propaganda scripts for the Ministry of Public Information. These related to the building of a post war consensus of equality within affordable housing, work, health, welfare and nationalized industrial and public utilities. Communal values that have been eroded over a 35 year period and accelerated as a political and financial land grab since the banking crisis of 2008. To bring these current and pressing issues to the fore we created a public and communal forum where the arts become visible cultural barricade in the form of a series of Public Information Nights.
Public Information Nightsare collaborative events, rallying calls for shared cultural values of generosity, commonality and to the joy of creative participation. Participants included Craig Wood and Peter Finnemore, Peski Records, Garmon Gruffydd, Canolfan Hamdden, Jason and Becky, Geraint Ffrancon, AE 101 Art Collective, Hywel Edwards, Tim Saunders & Joehari Lee.
> Film
![Public Information Night, Volcano Theatre, Swansea, December 7th 2013, 13.45 mins. Filmed and edited by Peter Finnemore in 2015, music by Canolfan Hamdden.]()
![Public Information Night, Carmarthen Library, Oct 17, 2014, 12.15 mins. Filmed and edited by Peter Finnemore in 2015, music by Canolfan Hamdden.]()
![Public Information No.1 Film 5 mins, 2015. Film edited by Peter Finnemore. A 13-track cassette tape (Canofan Hamdden – Cyffro ar Ddechrau Canrif) recorded and mixed on Swansea Public Information Night was produced and is available on Peski Records.]()
> Installations
![24 Hour Web Broadcast from Dylan Thomas’s Writing Shed, Saturday Sept 27th 2014, with Craig Wood, Joehari Lee and Peter Finnemore. (Photograph Huw Alden Davies)]()
![24 Hour Web Broadcast from Dylan Thomas’s Writing Shed, Saturday Sept 27th 2014]()
![Public Information Night, Volcano Theatre, Swansea, December 7th 2013]()
![Public Information Night, Volcano Theatre, Swansea, December 7th 2013]()
![Public Information Night, Volcano Theatre, Swansea, December 7th 2013]()
![Public Information exhibition, Oriel Myrddin, 2014]()
![Public Information exhibition, Oriel Myrddin, 2014]()
> Publication
![CCQ Magazine, We Do Dylan, Issue 4, 2014]()
![CCQ Magazine, We Do Dylan, Issue 4, 2014]()
![Taliesin Magazine, Yr Academi Gymraeg / The Welsh Academy, Haf / Summer 2014]()
> Installations
> Publication
No
No No No No No Yes, Poster, 73 x 58 cm, Fine Art Archival Print, 2014
(collaboration Peter Finnemore & Craig Wood)
Make
Yourself Up, Poster, 73 x 58 cm, Fine Art Archival Print, 2014 (collaboration
Peter Finnemore & Craig Wood)
It
Was Not a Revolution…, Poster, 73 x 58 cm, Fine Art Archival Print, 2014
(collaboration Peter Finnemore & Craig Wood)
Welcome
to Faschire, Poster, 73 x 58 cm, Fine Art Archival Print, 2014 (collaboration
Peter Finnemore & Craig Wood)