Eloise is participating in the ‘Artists in Dialogue – A Celebration of Contemporary Welsh Painting’ (working title) exhibition curated by Beate Gegenwart and Jacqueline Alkema in collaboration with the Makers Guild Wales and in partnership with the 2024 Celebration of Welsh Contemporary Painting.
In this project (which culminates in an exhibition at the Makers Guild in Wales, Cardiff), 6 Guild members are paired with contemporary painters and invited to form artistic partnerships where dialogue and exchange (in its broadest creative sense) encourages an interchange and input into their respective creative practices.
The painter and guild member pairs are:
Catrin Webster and Beate Gegenwart
Eloise Govier and Ruth Shelley
Flora McLachlan and Clare Revera
James Donovan and Helen Higgins
Jacqueline Alkema and Pamela Jones
Karin Mear and Ann Catrin Evans
The event is in partnership with Celebration of Welsh Contemporary Painting (CoWCP).
The Makers Guild Wales, Craft in the Bay, is based at The Flourish, Lloyd George Avenue, Cardiff CF10 4QH.
‘The Makers Guild in Wales is a national applied art and craft membership organisation based in Cardiff, Wales. The organisation exists to engage and inspire audiences as a centre of excellence for Craft and Applied Art, and to champion Welsh Craft Makers. Our award winning gallery, Craft in the Bay is located on the “Flourish” in Cardiff Bay, opposite Wales Millennium Centre and close to the iconic Senedd Building. Our gallery is the regional hub for Craft and Applied Art in the Capital of Wales’. (source)
Eloise comments ‘I am honoured to be invited to participate in this exhibition and excited to be working with artist and guild member Ruth Shelley whose incredible, award-winning glass pieces are objects of pure beauty. The interplay of light, colour and form – the areas of transparency, opacity and the stretching of colour – are fascinating, and I look forward to learning more about her creative process as the project develops over the coming months. Many thanks to the curators and the Makers Guild Wales for the warm welcome to the project. I am looking forward to developing new paintings in response to the project’.