19/07/2025 19:00:00
- Date(s)
- 19/07/2025
- Contact
- Talk Photo
- Registration URL
- https://theatrcolwyn.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173665165
- Description
Sian Bonnell is a UK based artist, living and working in Devon. Her artistic practice aims to challenge our ideas around the nature of art and its subject-matter.
Date: Saturday 19th July
Time: 7pm (doors 6.30pm)
Location: Upstairs in the Gallery at Oriel Colwyn
Working with available objects and spaces, Bonnell sees her camera as a “partner in crime – my provocateur; it dares me to do things. In this way it becomes a magical agent. Point a camera at any child, they will play up, show off, pull faces and adults will pose. All of this is performance, the camera demands it – and we are complicit.”
When the Domestic Meets the Wild Beachclean 1999 (c)Sian Bonnell
Her monograph Wilful Amateur is published this summer presenting an overview of her practice from 1978 to the present. Arranged non-chronologically the book brings together early and later works into new correspondence.
Sian’s work has been exhibited and published widely and is held in many public and corporate collections notably, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, the Ransom Center, Texas and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.
Disciplines #29 2014 (c) Sian Bonnell
Ten Seconds #1 2022 (c) Sian Bonnell
TALK PHOTO is a fortnightly evening social event in Oriel Colwyn’s gallery space, where invited speakers are here IN PERSON to share presentations and insights about their work or projects, with a friendly intimate audience.
Audience tickets are issued on a first come, first served basis.
If you are in a position to contribute towards the talks then please choose a donation option – this will directly help Oriel Colwyn and the continuation of these events going forward.
If you would prefer not to donate, please choose the FREE Ticket option.
Due to space limitations, we will be capping the audience to 30 people and are happy to offer a FREE option to remove any financial barriers to attend.