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Exhibitions - Arddangosfeydd

25 Jun Meh - 14 Sep Med
Wild Thing

Wild Thing

This exhibition brings together a lively eclectic selection of contemporary artworks which use animal imagery. The history of visual art is full of animals used as decoration, allegory, symbol - the way in which animals are understood and portrayed has always reflected the society of the time. The works here use different media to reflect our varied and sometimes confused feelings about our co-creatures - including fear, awe at their visual beauty, sentimentality. From Stephanie Quayle's vigorous ceramic sculptures to Stephen Johnson's constructed kitsch works; from Georgia Hayes expressionist paintings to Lucy Casson's imaginative assemblages, this quirky and colourful exhibition reminds us that ultimately artists' use of animal imagery expresses far more about human beings and the boundaries of our understanding than it does about the creatures portrayed.

Mae'r arddangosfa hon yn cyflwyno detholiad bywiog ac eclectig o ddarnau celf cyfoes sy'n defynyddio delweddau o anifeiliaid. Mae hanes celf gweledol yn llawn o anifeiliaid a ddefnyddir fel addurniad, alegori, symbol - mae'r ffordd y mae anifeiliaid yn cael eu deall a'u portreadu yn adlewyrchu bob tro cymdeithas y cyfnod. Mae'r darnau a arddangosir yma yn defnyddio gwahanol gyfryngau i adlewyrchu'n teimladau amrywiol ac weithiau cymysglyd tuag at ein cyd-greaduriaid - gan gynnwys ofn, edmygedd o'u prydferthwch gweledol a sentiment. O gerfluniau serameg bywiog Stephanie Quayle i weithiau ‘kitsch' Stephen Johnson; o baentiadau mynegiadol Georgia Hayes i gyfosodiadau llawn dychymyg Lucy Casson, mae'r arddangosfa fympwyol a lliwgar hon yn ein hatgoffa bod defnydd yr artist o ddelweddau anifeiliaid, yn y pendraw, yn dweud llawer mwy am ddynion a ffiniau ein dealltwriaeth nag ydi am yr anifeiliaid a bortreadir.

Read more about Wild Thing here.