Saturday Afternoon Art Club

Everything Changes, Everything Stays the Same

Join us for a series of workshops led by local practitioners and inspired by photographs from the National Library of Wales collection and beyond. We will be exploring our histories, languages and landscapes both inside and outside the gallery through painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, printing and more.

3rd May - History Hackers - Nicky Arscott

Using paper collage, photography and simple digital tools to play with historical images from the National Library photography collection, this session will explore what it means to create fake news, surreal scenarios and bizarre historical happenings...

17th May - Stop Motion Animation - Ben Faircloth

Join us for an exciting animation workshop using paper maquettes and modelling clay to create stories and adventures taking inspiration from moments captured in the photography exhibition.

31st May - Time Travel - Bethany Clewes

Let's travel back in time to visit the people in the images, what can we tell about them from their photograph? We'll whizz through to our lives now...then onwards into the future! In this workshop we will create personal time capsules with our own portraits, stories, messages, wishes and questions, for future us.

7th June - Shelters - Nicola Talbot

Playing with dens and shelters large and small, inspired by both inside and outside the gallery, this session will be an opportunity to unleash your inner engineer and to create your own mini structure to take home…

21st June - Moving Animals - Nicky Arscott

What can we learn about animals - then and now - from the photos in the current exibition? Taking this as our starting point we will be exploring animal movement and form through clay.

5th July - Gig Posters - Liam Rickard

Join the Worldwide Welshman for an extraordinary extravanganza inspired by Welsh music and culture. Come and try out different musical instruments, name your own band and design your very own gig poster

19th July - Jelly Printing - Elin Crowley

Looking closely at the current photography exhibition, we will gather and investigate symbols and shapes to create a colourful layered jelly print.

Oriel Davies and arts organisation Ennyn are working together to develop an inclusive creative programme for children encouraging play, exploration and self expression.

Ennyn is an arts organisation based in Mid Wales delivering a bilingual community arts programme.