EXHIBITION OPENING + ACTIVITIES
31 MAY, 11AM-4PM
For the opening of the new exhibitions, Agimat, at Llantarnam Grange, and Signal, at Big Pit National Coal Mining Museum, we will be celebrating the launch of artist Sadia Pineda Hameed’s new work with talks, tours, and activities!
Sadia has been working with Llantarnam Grange and Big Pit National Coal Mining Museum over the past year, researching elements of the collection to disrupt colonial legacies.
This event and exhibitions are part of Perspective(s), an ambitious Welsh arts programme, that brings together seven artists with all seven Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales sites and with seven different visual arts organisations nationwide.
PROGRAMME
LLANTARNAM GRANGE, CWMBRAN
Artist Talk: Sadia Pineda Hameed, 11am
Artist Sadia Pineda Hameed will be talking about her practice, sharing the wider research behind her new solo exhibition Agimat.
Sadia will reflect on her experience and process of working with museum collections, sharing the ideas and themes in her new work on display at both Llantarnam Grange and Big Pit National Coal Mining Museum.
Book a free place via Eventbrite here.
Opening Event: 12-2pm
Join us for the opening of our next set of exhibitions from 12-2pm, including the solo exhibition Agimat by Sadia Pineda Hameed in Gallery 1; MMMM NOTE, the new large-scale work by between artists Kerstin Kartscher and Sadia Pineda Hameed in our Billboard Gallery; Trans Iberia, a body of work by artist John Selway from our permanent collection in Gallery 2; and a group exhibition by students from the new Artist Designer Maker Foundation Degree at Coleg Gwent Crosskeys in our foyer.
This will be the last chance to see this collection of work by John Selway, which will be going on tour later this year.
Llantarnam Grange Café will be open from 9.30am – 3.30pm, with last orders at 2.30pm.
Livestream, all day
Artist Mort Drew from Soundcamp, an art collective working with transmission ecologies, will be livestreaming the opening event including Sadia’s Agimat talk and Signals tour. Stationed at the Pit Head Baths canteen at the Big Pit, they will also be playing broadcasting ecological intervention, drawing from the sounds of the mining museum and surrounding area.
BIG PIT NATIONAL COAL MUSEUM, BLAENAVON
Signals: Opening Event + Tour, 2-4pm
Travel with us to Big Pit National Coal Museum for the launch of a new body of film, sound and sculptural work by Sadia Pineda Hameed, that explores how radical movements of the past exist in international solidarity with movements today.
There will be a free coach leaving from Llantarnam Grange promptly at 2pm.
Book a free place via Eventbrite here.
Places are limited and pre-booking is essential.
Sadia will be giving a tour of her work at 2.30pm; followed by an Opening Event at 3pm. The coach will be leaving Big Pit at 4pm, and returning to Llantarnam Grange.
If you have your own transport, you will be able to travel and see the work any time during the day.
Signals will be on display at Big Pit National Coal Museum until 31 August.
This is part of Perspective(s), a collaboration between Arts Council Wales and National Museum Wales, supported by the Welsh Government.
