2007 ICAW Harlech Biennale VIII
NEXO 2007 - Spain
AP Artists Proof 2007 - Israel
2006 COORDINATES - AirSpaceGallery
Stoke on Trent
2005 ICAW Harlech Biennale VII
Art Colony Galichnik - Macedonia
2004 ICAW Harlech Biennale VI
Haagse Kunstkring - The Netherlands
2003 Art Colony Galichnik - Macedonia
1999 ICAW Harlech Biennale III
1996 ICAW Harlech Biennale II
1994 ICAW Harlech Biennale I
Harlech Biennale VIII - 2007
12 artists coming from Spain, Israel, Greece and Wales make work in the remote landscape of Harlech. Harlech International Artists Residency 2007. 11 days - (24 July to 3 August), in this timeframe, artists made work for exhibition in the context of the Snowdonia National Park at Hendre Ddyfrgi LL46 2TR and Merthyr Farm LL46 2TP.
Harlech Biennale VIII - 2007
Exhibition - 3 August to 28 September 2007
'Coordinates' exhibition, Air Space Staffordshire UK Work from artists who showed work in Harlech Biennale VII - 2005 Coordinates.
A selection of works by artists involved on the Residencies and in the exhibition at Galeri Caernarfon including new work by Peter Finnemore who represented Wales at the 2005 Venice Biennale. Reiko Aoyagi based in Cardiff who produced work on the Harlech International Artists Residencies 2005. Reiko will be producing a new work developed from ideas of her site specific landscape work at Lasynys Fawr, Harlech.
NEXO 2006 - Toledo, Espana developed, organised and delivered by Fernando Barredo de Valenzuela and Juan Giordano took place in the picturesque and historic city of Toledo, Spain. Once a centre where citizens of different ethnic and religious beliefs lived and worked in harmony. This project achieved many cultural goals, which in turn has given rise to other initiatives to celebrate cultural differences in Europe and beyond. These events organised by artists also bring many economic benefits to all the regions represented by the artists on the residencies. Harlech Biennale will be seeking along with NEXO to further develop the project to enhance the notion that art in the 21 Century has an important role to play in making a positive input in the evolving and fast moving times we live in.
La Solaina, Pilono, Galicia Marged Pendrell - REPORT
La Solaina, Pilono, Galicia Noelle Griffiths - REPORT
Marged Pendrell and Noelle Griffiths artists from Wales invited to make work in Galicia in 2006. "A wonderful experience! Sixteen artists from Spain , Mexico , France , Wales, Germany and Bulgaria , worked alongside each other making a piece of artwork each to be donated to 'A Solaina's' collection. An exhibition of this work will be held at Museo 'Ramon Aller' in Lalin in November 2006."
Coordinates project description One role for artists’ is to add a dynamic to society and to encourage confidence to take onboard new experiences rather than to stay with culturally established norms.
The thinking behind Geographical relevance: Reference to place is part of the ‘Coordinates’ brief. Exploring means of innovation and expression of visual and conceptual experiences that working in an unfamiliar environment opens up. Working outside the normal studio situation creates new possibilities for cultural synergies to form the content of the work.
AP Artists Proof Ein Hod, Israel 2007
Levendel Bloch Gallery, Ein Hod, Israel. Organised and Curated by Nechama Levendel and Nadav Bloch.
During July 1-10 2007, an international gathering of artists took place in Ein Hod , Israel . The participating countries : England , Poland , Spain , El Salvador , Italy , Rumania , Kosovo , USA , Israel .
Some summers are easily forgotten and some are indelibly inscribed in our memory. If the summer of 2006 recalls difficlties and conflict in Lebanon, the summer of 2007 will be synonomous with Nahama and Nadav's pilot project that went by the name of "Artist Proof." Working tirelessly and endlessly, they managed to organize funding, space and the necessary conditions to invite l0 artists from all over the world to the small village of Ein Hod where, for more than one week, an atmosphere of creativity and an exchange of ideas and techniques was created:-
"Being a skeptic at the beginning but a total convert at the end, I can honestly say that these l0 days was indeed an exhilarating experience as an artist. So thank you, Nahama and Nadav and to all those who participated and to all those in Ein Hod who helped make this a memorable experience".
Ayelet and Dani Shefer
Ein Hod July 2007
Art Colony Galicnik Macedonia 2005
Curated by Ana Frangkovska
"I, and everyone else there absorbed the warm Galicnik welcome. Sharing with foreign friends - we were literally embraced by Ana and Nove. Then visibly moved we sought to express the beauty of the unspoken word.
It was the synthesis of mood and shared precious space that transformed the commonplace and gave a key. A key to let go, a key to unlock the synergy of time and place, and feel the energy of Art Colony Galichnik." John Brown