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Man fell ART ACROSS THE CITY:
against
car after Sinister theme is
medication fun at playground
A MAN disorientated by
medication fell against a car
and scratched the paint-
work, Swansea magistrates
were told.
Edward Jones had gone to
Morriston Hospital comp-
laining of chest pains.
After receiving medic-
ation including painkillers
he left the hospital and tried
to find his way home.
At 8.30pm on March 28,
he was knocking on the door
of a house in Clos Waun
Wen, Morriston, prosecutor
Julie Sullivan told the court.
Jones asked householder
Mark Bland for directions to
a particular address.
He was incoherent and Mr
Bland told him he was
unable to help him before
closing the door.
Leaning
A short time later he lo-
oked out to see Jones leaning
against his wife’s car.
After Jones moved off, Mr
Bland went out to check on
the car. He discovered two
scratches a foot long.
Police were alerted and
they found Jones lying a
pavement with cuts to his
face and hands.
The 44-year-old, of Elan
Avenue, Clase, admitted
causing damage.
His solicitor, Paul Warren,
said he had left hospital in a
disorientated state and had
difficulty finding his way
home.
Jones was ordered to pay
£100 in compensation and
£80 in fine and victim
surcharge.
AM’s plea
to re-open
post offices
ASSEMBLY member for
South West Wales, Alun
Cairns, is backing a cam-
paign to re-open post
offices.
He plans to contact
Swansea, Neath Part Talbot
and Bridgend councils to
urge them to re-open their
branches.
This follows a scheme in
Essex where the county
council has managed to
re-open five of their
branches after the closures
had an adverse effect on
their community.
Mr Cairns said: “The Post
Office network was an
invaluable asset to the
country and it’s shameful
that the government has
undermined it by taking
away so many things like the
sale of TV licences.”
Firms’ chance
to raise issues
BUSINESSES on Swansea’s
Enterprise Zone will have
the opportunity to raise any
local issues at a Pact meeting
next week.
The meeting starts at 1pm
on Monday, April 20, in the
Ramada Jarvis Hotel on
Phoenix Way.
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Twelve sites of weird and wonderful sculptures turn Swansea into a giant gallery Open day
advice on
computing
MARKO Maetamm has created “a chaotic
Art makes some Graphic posters to
show off city scenes courses DETAILS of computing
noise to reach a
courses will be presented at
playground” next to the leisure centre. GALWAY girl Aisling O’Beirn to bring together different
an open day in Swansea next
His “playground of nightmares” aims to will bring her multi-imaged aspects of the city — from the
month.
combine the different aspects of Swansea, from the graphic posters to Swansea as familiar to the unnoticed.
Swansea Metropolitan
nightlife to the revamp of the city — he took all his part of the exhibition. Her Some Swansea Sites
University’s long-estab-
different views of the city in the form of a Her work is set to be pieces will be shown at
lished school of applied
playground, and put them behind a steel fence. displayed across the city at a Technium Square in SA1, the
computing is throwing open
If it sounds like something from a horror film, it’s number of different locations leisure centre’s amphitheatre,
the doors to its Mount
meant to — he wants it to look sinister and around the marina on The LC car park, Museum
Pleasant campus to provide
wider audience
apocalyptic. billboards. Green and the Civic Centre on
information on its full and
It will be on the green at the National Waterfront In the exhibition, she tries Swansea’s seafront.
part-time courses which
Museum in Oystermouth Road.
cover software, hardware
Piecing together scenes
and networking training.
European twist
Head of applied compu-
ting Ian Wells said: “We have
a number of courses on offer
from past and present
in the school and the open
for Dylan’s city
days allow us to meet people
with an interest in
computing.
“We are able to offer
TO many, Dylan Thomas is synonymous with SCOTSMAN Calum Stirling is present-day Swansea scenes in
advice on which courses
Swansea, but artist Neeme Külm has looked at using a more traditional material his piece which will be displayed
would be suitable for what
the link between the poet and his city. — he’s taken pieces of the at the National Waterfront
they wish to achieve.”
His exhibit looks into whether removing all traditional blue Cambrian Pottery Museum Garden.
Swansea Met has offered
traces of Thomas would affect the city and its which was made in Swansea and He hopes it will allow viewers to
computing degrees for more
residents. combined them into one large “navigate the scenery; immersing
than 30 years. The open day
Neeme is the only European exhibitor. piece of art. themselves in a landscape that
takes place on Wednesday,
He was born, and lives in Estonia. His work They’ve been made into a piece could have come from China,
May 6, from 1pm.
will be on show at Dylan Thomas Square, showing familiar historical Swansea, or the depths of
lAnyone interested
Swansea Marina. landmarks combined with the imagination.”
should call the school on
01792 481192 or email
Hot footing it to Sailing into exhibition
computing@smu.ac.uk
Home-grown
Marina sculpture
PAUL Granjon’s exhibition will it were a percussive musical
open this year’s Art across the instrument.”
attractions
City event in a slightly odd That means Paul, and his
way. group of 20 dancers from the
BOUND to attract some stares is Megan Along with local choreog- Dynion group, will use the
Broadmeadow’s giant high-heeled shoe which will
take up its floating residence at the Marina in the
exhibition. NOISY ART Tripping the light
rapher Douglas Comley, he will
use 20 dancers to play the Sail
Bridge spanning the Tawe “as if
natural noises from the bridge,
and their adapted mallets and
shoes to entertain the public.
to benefit
The masts and sails on the shoe are to represent fantastic on Swansea’s Sail Bridge. HISTORIC houses, holiday
Swansea’s nautical history, while the shoe is to cottages and rugged Welsh
symbolise “femininity issues surrounding the countryside are luring in
nautical world and the shopping culture FANCY being an art ■ BY KATE CLARKE “I felt I wanted to highlight enjoyable to look at and can Neville Gabie on their travels. modern-day Swansea. Other including guided walks and cycle visitors, according to land-
omnipresent in every city”. buff for the day? the contrast between those offer the viewer a slice of He was the man drawing on the pieces on show as part of Art tours take place throughout the owner National Trust.
So, not just an object of desire for all AND RUTH humble women and today's fantasy. window with a marker pen each Across the City include work from free event. Trust bosses are expecting
Or what about just
women, then. mooching around in Swansea MOSALSKI shopping society, where shoes “The pointy, glossy boats time the bus stopped, in the name Estonian Marko Maetamma who Art lover Lina Jones, of Killay, a an upsurge in visitors with
postnews@swwmedia.co.uk are almost disposable to the and yachts in the marina of art. has created “a chaotic regular at the city’s Glynn Vivian more people likely to stay at
taking in some modern art just
serial shoppers, says Megan. greatly reminded me of “I went on several routes playground” of children’s toys, all Gallery, said she hoped the home this tourist season.
Capturing power
for the fun of it.
No, not pickled sheep,
elephant dung and unmade
Now Art Across the City is
back. Bosses say it will again
be thought provoking and
“I realised the city is now
dominated by the more fe-
male domain of shopping
lipstick, nail varnish and
stilettos, and so I felt a
‘shoe-ship’ would be right at
around Swansea and it was just
drawing on the bus window,
capturing what we were passing
kept within a cage to make them
appear more sinister and a look at
how cultural icons, Dylan
scheme would help more people
accessing art adding: “ I think it is
fantastic for Swansea.
Director for Wales Iwan
Huws said: “The National
Trust offers perfect locations
beds — that’s all so yester-
of ocean indoors day! amusing, with beautiful works centres. home there.” by in the city and beyond,” he Thomas, can shape a city. “Lots of people are afraid to for spiritual refreshment in a
on public display at venues “Because of this cultural Paul Granjon will open the says. Locws says it prides itself on walk through the door of a recession.
And no, not behind the
throughout the city from shift, I felt that the feminine art festival along with Dynion “Buses are, in fact, incredibly providing new opportunities for museum to see an art piece. “People can enjoy miles of
doors of a museum or hushed
Saturday to Sunday, May 10. dance group in a performance social places.” “But put it somewhere where it dramatic coastline, rugged
gallery.
Eight international artists piece on the Tawe Sail Bridge, Grace Davies, Project Manager is on show publicly, and you mountains and our wonder-
A SWIRLING sea, howling wind, a dramatic Instead, watch out for are on their way to the city this “I try to offer the using the structure as a of Locws International, which “It is thought-provoking have an immediate ful historic houses and
crescendo of music — sound pretty accurate for charred seabirds, a giant week building and refining percussive instrument. curates the project, says all the audience. castles not to mention acres
viewer a slice and stimulates
a video of storm? Probably. woman’s shoe, a downcast their artworks ahead of “The project started from a artists involved have been “People may not of manicured gardens.”
Sound like an afternoon at the Leisure figure contemplating his Saturday’s launch. of fantasy” walk on the bridge with my inspired by Swansea’s past, debate about art always like, or agree
Centre? Probably not. future on the piers of the old A key piece which is set to girlfriend who was wearing present and future “to create with, what they see. But
Tanya Axford’s exhibit, There is Nothing Left railway bridge across the Tawe
of the Sea but its Sound, was actually filmed
in the leisure centre and is meant to illustrate
and a food-mixer orchestra all
of which are on their way to
raise eyebrows will be Megan
Broadmeadow’s Ship Shape, a
floating sculpture, complete
influence was stronger than
the historical masculine one,
high heels and the bridge was
resonating,” he says.
The French artist, who lives
vibrant new artworks that
respond, challenge and reflect
aspects of the city”.
artists, and with projects running
on the buses and on the bridges,
it is thought-provoking
and stimulates debate
about art which has
Musical smash
heads to city
the regeneration and re-illustration of the Swansea in coming weeks. with sails and masts, and therefore something that in Cardiff, said he originally She adds: “It also presents a it’s fair to say the people of to be a good
site. Arts charity Locws Inter- fashioned in the shape of a should be explored in the planned on making a machine unique reflection of the spirit of Swansea are part of this project thing.”
Axford’s exhibition will be shown at the national is bringing the weird, giant shoe. work.” to copy the noise, but then this city at this time.” whether they know it or not.
SINGER and actor David
National Waterfront Museum Square. the beautiful, and the down- She says the object fuses And if you struggle with settled on the idea of using the Unique is one word for Megan The exhibits will be on show at
Essex is to star alongside
right controversial to the city Swansea’s past with its conceptual art, think of it as a bridge itself as an instru- Broadmeadow, from North 12 sites, from Technium Square in
musical theatre star Louise
creating talking points with modern day, with its reference scene from a Terry Gilliam ment. Wales’s structure. SA1, across to the bus station
English in the smash-hit
public art. movie when the high-heeled
For more —see page 29 The project has been here
to the cockle women who
used to toil and walk to market boat floats by on the Marina.
In a similarly alternative
vein, Swansea bus users may
Her inspiration came from
Swansea’s sea-faring history, but
from this weekend.
A number of
musical All the Fun of the
Fair when it comes to
before. bare foot. “I try to make things that are have come across artist the twist is the connection to other events,
Swansea’s Grand Theatre
from April 27 to May 2.
Capturing the
What else is happening, and when? ON SHOW Megan
Broadmeadow, with
her Art Across the
Firm signs to stay
views of everyday
City exhibit.
Saturday .......................................... Performance by Paul Granjon with 6.15pm, Sail Bridge, River Tawe CEM Day is being allowed to
Dynion Dance keep signs at its premises in
Launch reception 7pm, National Waterfront Museum
Wednesday, April 22........................
Saturday, April 25 ............................
Guided walk
Guided walk
1pm, National Waterfront Museum
2pm, National Waterfront Museum NEVILLE Gabie, a South the glimpses one sees when
Plasmarl Industrial Estate
following a decision by
Swansea Council plan-
Monday, April 27.............................. Symposium: Locws in Context 1pm, Dynevor Arts Centre for Art
and Design, De La Beche Street,
free and open for all
African artist who now lives in
the UK, has created a video of
himself drawing on bus
passing through the city.”
The video he made in
Swansea will be shown
ning chiefs.
Wednesday, April 29........................ Guided walk 1pm, National Waterfront Museum windows. alongside two similar films,
Saturday, May 2............................... Guided cycle tour 11am, Technium Square, SA1 It might sound odd, but he one from the Trans Siberian
Waterfront development
Guided walk 2pm, National Waterfront Museum
wanted to permanently Railway and one from Pact meeting date
capture the views people see Antarctica, a trip he has just
Wednesday, May 6 .......................... Guided walk 1pm, National Waterfront Museum every day and just let pass completed. A PACT Meeting is to take
Saturday, May 9............................... Guided walk 2pm, National Waterfront Museum by. The video will be shown in place on Wednesday at the
Sunday, May 10............................... Locws closes 5pm It is described as “a way of Swansea’s Quadrant bus Mountbatten Community
See www.artacrossthecity.com for details and updates mapping and holding onto station. Room, Mountbatten Court,
Ravenhill, from 6.30pm.