Tigers & Dragons: India and Wales in Britain. A Glynn Vivian Art Gallery exhibition, 2025.

Artworks courtesy and copyright the artists. Photography Polly Thomas.

Outside room 3

Room 3 - overview

Room 3 - Tigers

Room 3 - Miniatures

Room 9 - Partition

Room 9 - Hiraeth

Modron, Threads
24.05.2025 - 2.11.2025

We are proud to present the outcome of the Threads project, featuring the personal responses of group members to the work of acclaimed artist Adeela Suleman.

Threads: Glynn Vivian Community Textiles Group has been experimenting with textile-based techniques and materials. As the project has developed, the slow, repetitive nature of textile processes has encouraged social interactions and connections. This slowed-down approach has allowed for the development of a shared sense of purpose celebrating how the threads of our diverse lives are inextricably woven together in our community.

Rydym yn falch o gyflwyno canlyniad prosiect Threads, sy’n cynnwys ymatebion personol gan aelodau’r grŵp i waith yr artist adnabyddus Adeela Suleman. Ariannwyd prosiect Threads gan Grant ‘Creu’ Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru.

Mae Threads, Grŵp Tecstilau Cymunedol Oriel Gelf Glynn Vivian, wedi bod yn arbrofi â thechnegau a deunyddiau sy’n seiliedig ar decstilau. Wrth i’r prosiect ddatblygu, mae natur araf, ailadroddus prosesau tecstilau wedi annog rhyngweithio a chysylltiadau cymdeithasol. Mae’r dull arafach hwn wedi caniatáu i ni feithrin ymdeimlad o ddiben cyffredin, gan ddathlu sut mae elfennau ein bywydau amrywiol yn cydblethu’n annatod yn ein cymuned.

Threads interview Modron

AND then there were Dragons?

If India was the Jewel in the Imperial Crown, could we argue that Wales was England’s first colony? What do the Tiger of India and the Welsh Dragon share? This talk will focus on “Tigers & Dragons: India and Wales in Britain”but unlike the more research-based talks she has given so far, this one by Zehra will come from a curatorial perspective; giving insights into the collaborative curation of the show with Glynn Vivian’s Katy Freer.

Os India oedd ‘yr em yn y goron ymerodrol’, a allem ddadlau mai Cymru oedd trefedigaeth gyntaf Lloegr? Beth mae Teigr India a Draig Cymru’n ei rannu? Bydd y sgwrs hon yn canolbwyntio ar “Teigrod a Dreigiau: India a Chymru ym Mhrydain” ond yn wahanol i’r sgyrsiau mwy seiliedig ar ymchwil y mae hi wedi’u rhoi hyd yn hyn, bydd y sgwrs hon gan Zehra yn dod o safbwynt curadurol; gan roi cipolwg i ni ar y modd y curadwyd yr arddangosfa hon ar y cyd â Katy Freer o Oriel Gelf Glynn Vivian.



Friends of the Glynn Vivian Talk with Dr Zehra Jumabhoy

15 Concluding thoughts

Matt Abbott reads the first in a new series of poetry commissions for the Arts Council Collection inspired by Yorkshire Sculpture Parks’ latest National Partners exhibition, Revolt & Revolutions.

Image: Martin Boyce, Souvenir Placards (Standard Edition). Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London. © the artist. Gift of Charles Saatchi.

Revolt & Revolutions (2018) by Matt Abbott

Arts Council Collection

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