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Foreword to Dylan Thomas Exhibition
Catalogue
by
Andrew Davies AM 6th April 2003
“A recent visitor to Wales from the USA described Swansea as the ‘bohemian and cultural capital of Wales’. With a 20th Century inheritance that includes Ceri Richards, Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones, Vernon Watkins and Alfred Janes it is an apt description. For how many cities could claim such a rich cultural inheritance?
And this incredibly rich tradition across the whole range of the visual and performing arts continues into the present day, and is personified in the work of the Swansea Print Workshop. I first became aware of their work a few years ago when I was asked to support an application for Lottery funding, and was hugely impressed by the great richness and breadth of the work carried out by those printmakers living and working in Swansea.
For me, one of Swansea’s unique characteristics is the gritty strength and creativity of its various communities, and the ability and willingness of these communities to work together and be inspired by each other’s work. In the 50th anniversary of the death of Dylan Thomas, I can think of no better tribute to his life and work than for those artists living in our city today to dedicate work inspired by his verse.
And the reputation of Swansea-based artists continues to grow. Indeed, such is the quality of this work that, following my suggestion to Welsh Assembly colleagues, the Print Workshop was invited to mount an exhibition of these prints which was the centre-piece of this year’s ‘Wales Week’ in Brussels. I was delighted, but not surprised, that it received such an enthusiastic reception from a diverse European audience.
I feel privileged to be invited to write this foreword, and as an avid collector of the work of local printmakers, I can only hope you enjoy this catalogue as much as I have done.
SWANSEA PRINT WORKSHOP DYLAN THOMAS 50TH ANNIVERSARY
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