​Eifion Sven-Myer

Details:  Eifion Sven-Myers ideas revolve around ideas of space and processes of transformation, he seeks to widen the usually strict boundaries of painting and inspire a dialogue around the processes and construction of his work. Using former paintings, mirrors and recycled wood. The aim of this residency will be to create an obscure space that one would walk into where the boundaries merge. A room where two and three-dimensions fluctuate, where paintings have been manipulated into sculptures and the walls and floor have become supports for paintings.
​This must be the place I never wanted to leave

Location: ARCADECARDIFF, Unit 3b, Queens Arcade, Queen Street, Cardiff, CF10 2BY

Details: A selection of paintings from contemporary Welsh painters and selected works from the Beep2016 Painting Prize curated by Beep and elysiumgallery Director Jonathan Powell. 

Artists: Sinead Aldridge | Tom Banks  | Sam Chapman | Philip Cheater | Michelle Conway | Tom Down (image) | Ilona Kiss | Arron Kuiper | Anna McNeil | Eifion Sven-Meyer | Fran Williams | Camilla Wilson | (Beep Peoples prize winner TBA)
Location: elysium gallery, 16 College Street, Swansea, SA1 5BH

Details: Born and raised In Haifa, Israel and based in south west Wales since 2001, Dalit Leon is a painter/ drawer/ printmaker. She completed an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London in 2013. The artist will be creating a new body of work for this exhibition seeking, through the subject of landscape and space, to explore the relationship between symbolic and material language, to visualise and question the overlapping realities of sense perception, cultural and historical readings, as well as deep consciousness, mythical and primordial histories. Dalit exhibited in the first Beep Painting Prize in 2012 and shows her work both nationally and internationally with a solo exhibition planned for 2016 in Israel.
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​Location: elysium gallery, 16 College Street, Swansea, SA1 5BH

Details: The results of a live performance create a body of work for this exhibition where the artist attempts to find a way to visualise the Earth’s rotation. The role of the artist becomes purposely minimal as the apparatus is set up and the pendulum creates spontaneous paintings that illustrate harmony and balance juxtaposed against a human species which is increasingly at odds with the planet. Bonada is also curator and exhibitions officer at Undegun, Wrexham and regularly organises artist exchanges between Finland and Wales.
Phoebe Phillips

Details: The Jane Phillips Award is a memorial to Jane Phillips (1957 – 2011) Mission Gallery, Swansea's first Director. Launched at Mission Gallery in 2011, the award is intended as a legacy to Jane’s passion for mentoring and nurturing talent, consistently supporting emerging and early career artists across the Visual and Applied Arts in Wales and beyond in a variety of different ways. As part of the Award, a Graduate Residency is offered where a selected artist will have the opportunity to make use of the Jane Phillips Award Studio at Elysium High Street studios. We are happy to announce the recipient as Phoebe Phillips, a Fine Art: Painting graduate from Carmarthen School of Art & Design
​Location: elysium gallery, 16 College Street, Swansea, SA1 5BH

Details: Goodger (Beep2012 People’s Prize joint winner) and Rowe collaborate to explore themes around the Paris commune, barricades and the sublime. Steph Goodger is a painter working in Bordeaux, France whilst Julian Rowe is a Kent-based sculptor, painter and installation artist. They have a mutually supportive working relationship based upon shared areas of interest and research. Le Temps des cerises (Cherry Time) is a well-known song in the French-speaking world, that became popular and took on a political meaning during the Paris Commune.

Location: elysium gallery, 16 College Street, Swansea, SA1 5BH

Details: Beep2014 Main Prize winner Lee Williams’s recent work and research explores place attachment and the bonding of people to places. Relating attachment to constructs such as place identity, sense of place and place dependence. The environment we are brought up in exerts pressure on our personality formation; and the culture in which we are raised, plays a substantial role in shaping our personalities. Fundamental influences of a certain environment can be more powerful than hereditary / genetic factors. 
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Painting Parallels

Location: Swansea Grand Theatre, 2nd Floor Arts Wing, Singleton St, Swansea, SA1 3QJ

Details: This exhibition situated on the second floor of the Grand Theatre Arts wing brings together a selected group of Welsh painters who work collectively within the Swansea arts community but tread very different paths within the medium of paint.
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These exhibitions were curated by Beep & elysiumgallery Director Jonathan Powell.
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The Painters Studio

Location: Swansea Grand Theatre, 1st Floor Arts Wing, Singleton St, Swansea, SA1 3QJ

Details: This exhibition offers a unique glimpse into the working practice of a group of contemporary Swansea painters and details the intricacies of studio life. The first floor of the Grand Theatre Arts wing will feature a mixture of finished paintings and works in progress on studio easels intermingled with photographs of the artists’ studios and insights into the mind and spaces of the creative individuals.
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