{"id":23816,"date":"2014-11-15T22:43:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T22:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=23816"},"modified":"2015-10-07T10:43:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T10:43:10","slug":"local-talent-collaborate-at-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/culture\/local-talent-collaborate-at-exhibition","title":{"rendered":"Craft artists launch new exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Craft artists have collaborated to bring the best of local talent, to a gallery just outside Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Made in the Valleys\" href=\"http:\/\/www.madeinthevalleys.com\" target=\"_blank\">Made in the Valleys<\/a> exhibition opens this week at the Giles Gallery in Pontyclun. The exhibition gives artists and craft makers a platform to promote their extraordinary work to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty one local artists are displaying a wide diversity of work, ranging from sculpture and painting to textiles and photographs.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23820\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/made-in-the-valleys-4-Rebecca-Buck-Osprey-Studios.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23820\" alt=\"Sculpture by Rebecca Buck of Osprey Studios\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/made-in-the-valleys-4-Rebecca-Buck-Osprey-Studios-480x246.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sculpture by Rebecca Buck of Osprey Studios<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Textile artist and designer Melissa Warren is curating the exhibition. She said,&#8221;We have tried for something really different that makes people sit up and think.&#8221; Melissa also has her own studio &#8211; Lemon Blues &#8211; where she runs craft workshops and art clubs for the local community. She is a passionate champion of local arts education for all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/made-in-the-valleys-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23819\" alt=\"made in the valleys 3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/made-in-the-valleys-3-480x177.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explosion of colour and craft from South Wales talent at gallery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[4005,2234,4007,4006],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Craft artists launch new exhibition - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/culture\/local-talent-collaborate-at-exhibition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Craft artists launch new exhibition - 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