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Material Open Call for Creatives – Wood from Beech Tree Available for Collection

Following the successful Coed / Coexist symposium in September 2024, creative practitioners who have links to Pen Llŷn and the wider Gwynedd area are invited to collect wood from a beautiful beech tree that fell at Plas Glyn-y-Weddw earlier this year and take part in the next phase of the Coed / Coexist project. This tree and its wood are central to the Coed Coexist project, symbolically and physically.

Call for commission proposals 

The Coed Coexist team is working to secure funding for four major new commissions to be presented alongside the Coed Coexist exhibition in May - July 2026. Each selected artist or collective will receive a £2000 fee to realise new work (fee to cover all artists costs). 

Those interested in making a proposal should do so by 5pm, 28 March 2025. Any enquiries please contact alex@oriel.org.uk

The commissioned creatives will be supported by staff at Plas Glyn-y-Weddw and Junko Mori & John Egan throughout the project. It is hoped that continual documentation of each commission’s journey will be captured through film, photography and written / spoken word.

An exhibition to celebrate 10 years of the Eirian Llwyd Memorial Award, including various print works from applicants shortlisted for this year's award, previous recipients and works by the late Eirian Llwyd. 

The exhibition will be opened on February 2nd, 2025 at 2pm with a reading by poet Karen Owen, selectors' comments by Rhian Harris and Ieuan Wyn Jones will present the award.

To coincide with the Eirian Llwyd Memorial Award exhibition, we will be holding various events and creative sessions to celebrate printing here at the Plas. See below for dates. 

February 8 - Karen Owen - Creative writing workshop in response to artwork for adults

February 15 - Karen Owen - Creative writing workshop in response to artwork for adults

February 15-  Rhi Moxon - Printmaking session for younger children- screen-printing  + mono print

February 15- Rhi Moxon - Printmaking session for teens - screen-printing  + mono print

February 16 - Nigel Morris - Printmaking session for adults - dry point etching

February 22 - Karen Owen - Creative writing workshop in response to artwork for adults

February 22 - Rebecca F Hardy - Printmaking session for young adults 14+ - screen-printing 

February 27 - Casia Wiliam - Llên mewn Llun - Creative writing session for children - using the artwork as catalyst for story ideas

February 27 - Zoe Lewthwaite - Printmaking session for children- 'Print, Mark Making & Collage'

Join us at 2pm for a  Sunday afternoon concert with Gwyn Owen playing the trumpet and Anya Fadina on the piano. Music by Grace Willliams, Astor Piazzolla, Vladimir Peskin and Henri Tomasi.

£12 (£10 for members of the gallery)