Art and regeneration in Haverfordwest
Over 3 days, PLATFORM presented Haverfordwest as a stage for a programme of new commissions and existing artworks by artists living in and around Pembrokeshire. The programme reflected the diversity and depth of contemporary arts practice in the region, and included artists’ film, installation and performance that together created a…
As part of PLATFORM, a programme of contemporary artists’ film was screened in the former Archive Office, Castle Street, Haverfordwest, SA61 2EF. Ruth Jones Vigil 2009 / 04:32 Explores Strumble Head lighthouse as a threshold place, situated between land and sea, day and night and human and animal kingdoms. Using…
Seán Vicary’s film installation Chain Home West was commissioned for PLATFORM. Seán’s work deals with ideas of landscape (internal and external) and our increasingly politicised interaction with the natural world. His moving-image pieces have been broadcast in the UK and exhibited worldwide. He works site-sensitively, collecting found objects and fragments…
From DC and the Dudes to the Sound of Music: over three days Jacob Whittaker invited the public to share their musical memories, to browse, discuss, play and contribute to a collection of vinyl records connected to the area culminating in a live Performance with a unique mix for Haverfordwest….
HWYL The children of Fenton Primary School worked with artist and maker Ruth Sargeant to produce an installation of over 400 handmade porcelain vessels, each with an individual drawing. The vessels were lit at a closing ceremony and presented back to the school for dispersal in support of future projects….
The Rhôd Artists Group were commissioned by PLATFORM to create a series of artworks primarily taking over noticebaords in the town centre… Kathryn Campbell Dodd “In Store” was made in partnership with Haverfordwest Town Museum, and features shots of the elaborate till which is housed in the museum and was…
Partus (birth) is a film installation and live performance commissioned for PLATFORM by visual artist Ruth Jones in collaboration with electronic composer Andy Wheddon Partus takes as a starting point a CTG scan of a medicalised labour and birth and echoes the altered experience of time that being in labour…
Our vision is that in ten years’ time the ancient port of Haverfordwest will have been re-imagined as a vibrant and distinctive market town, reconnected with its river, in full flow and charged by the creativity of its people.
