Group Exhibitions - Ceri Thomas Art

This is a selection of group exhibitions which I have researched and curated over the last 20 years.

It includes a major, touring retrospective of the Welsh Group which began life as the South Wales Group in 1948 and first exhibited in the following year. This exhibition concentrated upon nearly 50 artists and examples of their 2d and 3d works produced since the mid 1990s.

Another big show was that to mark the centenary of the University of Glamorgan (which had begun life in 1913 as the South Wales and Monmouthshire School of Mines) and its rebirth as the University of South Wales in 2013.

The 2023 one celebrated and examined the first two full-time curators of the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, and their pioneering and influential, curatorial taste in modern Wales. They were David Bell in the 1950s (who was a professionally trained painter) and Kathleen Armistead in the 1960s (who was a professionally trained pianist).

Collectively these exhibitions explore and present aspects of the visual culture of modern and contemporary Wales:-

Forthcoming:-

The Euro-Wales 92 Group: Then and Now

Turner House, Penarth (June-July 2024)

Past:-

Imaging Wales: Then and Now / Llunio Cymru: Ddoe a Heddiw

Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, Conwy (March 2024)

Shaping Wales: David Bell and Kathleen Armistead / Llunio Cymru: David Bell ac Kathleen Armistead

Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea (May-November 2023)

https://www.glynnvivian.co.uk/whats-on/shaping-wales-bell-and-armistead/

Exhibition review by Jenny White, ‘Another View of David Bell’, in Western Mail (Weekend), 5 August 2023

Coal Society

Oriel y Bont, University of South Wales (2016-17)

[part of a collaboration with Wolfson College, Cambridge, and its complementary exhibition Valley of Vision, 2017]

https://gallery.southwales.ac.uk/past-exhibitions/coal-society/

Towards Abstraction? Art in South Wales since 1960

Oriel y Bont, University of South Wales (2016)

https://gallery.southwales.ac.uk/past-exhibitions/towards-abstraction/

Fuse 3: Natalia Dias, Carol Hiles, Celia Jackson, Lisa Krigel, Tiff Oben/Tom Goddard, Heather Parnell

Oriel y Bont, University of South Wales (2015-16)

https://gallery.southwales.ac.uk/past-exhibitions/fuse-3/

Engaging with the Past

Oriel y Bont, University of South Wales (2015)

https://gallery.southwales.ac.uk/past-exhibitions/engaging-past/

Charlotte Bolland and Cecile Maisonneuve (in green trousers), the English and French curators of the spectacular exhibition 'Les Tudors' (Musee du Luxembourg, Paris, 18 March-19 July), with Ceri Thomas at the interdisciplinary conference 'Representing the Tudors', Oriel y Bont 11 July 2015 — Charlotte Bolland and Cécile Maisonneuve (in green trousers), the English and French curators of the spectacular exhibition ‘Les Tudors’ (Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 18 March-19 July), with Ceri Thomas at the interdisciplinary conference ‘Representing the Tudors’, Oriel y Bont 11 July 2015

Cecile Maisonneuve, Charlotte Bolland and Ceri Thomas enjoying Lilian Rathmell's fireplace piece 'Souvenir' (1971), Oriel y Bont 11 July 2015 — Cécile Maisonneuve, Charlotte Bolland and Ceri Thomas enjoying Lilian Rathmell’s fireplace piece ‘Souvenir’ (1971), Oriel y Bont 11 July 2015

Fuse 2: David Barnes, Paul Cabuts, Chris Nurse, Andreas Ruethi

Oriel y Bont, University of South Wales (2014-15)

https://gallery.southwales.ac.uk/past-exhibitions/fuse-2/

In Our Own Image? A Century of Imaging of and in South Wales: 1910-2013

Oriel y Bont, University of South Wales (2013-14)

https://gallery.southwales.ac.uk/past-exhibitions/our-own-image/

David Maddox and Gwyn Evans with their digital prints of Levi Ladd's 1910 'Tonypandy Riots' photographs, Oriel y Bont 4 March 2014 — David Maddox and Gwyn Evans with their digital prints of Levi Ladd’s 1910 ‘Tonypandy Riots’ photographs, Oriel y Bont 4 March 2014

Gwyn Evans with his 1953 Penygraig zebra crossing painting, Oriel y Bont 4 March 2014

56 Group Wales – Now

Oriel y Bont, University of South Wales (2013)

https://gallery.southwales.ac.uk/past-exhibitions/56-group-wales-now/

56 Group – Then

Oriel y Bont, University of Glamorgan (2012-13) [co-researched and co-curated]

Female Wales: University of Glamorgan Art Purchase Prize

Oriel y Bont, University of Glamorgan; Wales Millennium Centre (2010) [co-selected]

North and South: Royal Cambrian Academy (Part 1)

and

North and South: Royal Cambrian Academy (Part 2)

Oriel y Bont, University of Glamorgan (2010) [co-selected]

Memory and Imagination: University of Glamorgan Art Purchase Prize

Oriel y Bont, University of Glamorgan; Wales Millennium Centre (2009) [co-selected]

Mapping the Welsh Group at 60 / Mapio’r Grŵp Cymreig yn 60

National Library of Wales, Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Royal Cambrian Academy (2008-09)

'Mapping the Welsh Group at 60': exhibits by Tony Goble, Paul Brewer, Keith Bayliss, Alan Salisbury and Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Royal Cambrian Academy 2009 — ‘Mapping the Welsh Group at 60’: exhibits by Tony Goble, Paul Brewer, Keith Bayliss, Alan Salisbury and Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Royal Cambrian Academy 2009

The Land: University of Glamorgan Art Purchase Prize

Oriel y Bont, University of Glamorgan; Wales Millennium Centre (2008) [co-selected]

Ernest Zobole and Contemporaries

Zobole Gallery, University of Glamorgan (2004-05)