Locws International is an artist led organisation that works with UK-based and international artists to create temporary visual arts projects for public and accessible spaces across the city of Swansea in south Wales, UK.
In each project, place or context is integral to the work and, through the use of a broad variety of locations, Locws International provides a unique platform in which a wide audience can experience contemporary art.
Through its innovative programme, Locws International provides new opportunities for artists and operates within a flexible and supportive framework to enable the production of progressive and dynamic work.
Partnerships are key to Locws International events and the organisation strives to collaborate with a broad range of artists, people, venues and businesses to develop and maximize creative opportunities across the city.
Locws International
Light Drawing Workshops
Free and Open to All
15th September
Waterfront Community Church from 6.30 – 8.30pm
21st September
St Thomas Community Primary School from 6.30 – 8.30pm
Draw with Light!
Make your own stunning light drawings. Draw with light in our darkened room with cameras and download your images from www.tracinglight.co.uk. Light drawing workshops are an opportunity to express yourself through light. You will make LED throwies and learn how to do light drawings. Tell stories with light drawing photographs. Share your images online or print off at home. Be part of an Art Across The City project that explores the history of your local community. You will work with artist, Tine Bech and photographers and be part of a large public art project. The drawings are to be the inspiration for a bold, colourful sculpture for the SA1 area.
Workshop Dates & locations:
15th September
Waterfront Community Church from 6.30 – 8.30pm
21st September
St Thomas Community Primary School from 6.30 – 8.30pm
Free refreshments at both workshops
Children age 12 and under must be accompanied by an adult
For more information and to take part please call 01792 468979 or email info@artacrossthecity.com
This project is part of the SA1 Swansea Waterfront Public Art Programme and in partnership with the GSP Partnership.
Walking Between Craters
Simon Whitehead
Locws Projects 2010/2
2010 marks 70 years since the beginning of the devastating bombing of Swansea during the Second World War and most notably the Three Nights Blitz of February 1941. A new public art project commissioned by Swansea arts charity Locws International, marks this traumatic part of the city’s history by exploring the bomb craters left across the city and collating stories of peoples’ experiences and memories of them.
Artist Simon Whitehead has used aerial photographs of the city taken by the Luftwaffe in the 1940’s that reveal the extent of the craters spread out across the city and on Kilvey Hill. He has found that many of the craters still exist and many of these are hidden, have been colonised by plant life and overgrown, filled in, built over, played in, or have acquired other uses.
“I am making a hand-drawn walkers map and guide to the existent and disappeared craters across the city and hope to interview local people who remember the bombing, those who can recall stories from older family members and the many people who have played in, visited or used the craters in different ways”, said Simon Whitehead. “I regard the project as a form of memorial, revealing how the craters have been incorporated into Swansea’s folklore and how people’s relationships to them have transformed the original trauma of the bombings”.
If you have any stories relating to this part of Swansea’s history then we would like to hear from you. We will be collecting these local stories on August 31st where you can meet Simon and share your memories. If you are interested in taking part then please contact Locws International on 01792 468979.
‘Walking Between Craters’ is part of a series of artworks commissioned by Locws International for the 2010 Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts. The project runs from 8th – 31st October and maps will be available from the National Waterfront Museum and Swansea Museum.
Locws Projects 2010/2
Locws Projects 2010/2
8 October – 31 October 2010
Tine Bech
Rebecca Spooner
Simon Whitehead
To coincide with the Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts, Locws International has commissioned a series of new temporary artworks that reflect the people, culture, heritage and landscape of Swansea.
Danish artist Tine Bech has worked with the communities of St. Thomas, Grenfell Park and Port Tennant as part of the SA1 Swansea Waterfront Art Programme to develop an artwork that reflects the area’s connection to the docks; Rebecca Spooner has responded to the landscape of the city creating rich new film work and Simon Whitehead marks 70 years since the three-nights blitz of 1940 in an interactive journey.
In addition to these new artworks we will also be re-showing Jackie Chettur’s artwork inspired by the Swansea Capehorners: ‘…it is 89 days this morning since we left the Mumbles Head’, that was created for Locws Projects 2010/1 and originally shown at the Civic Centre in April and May 2010.
Information and maps will be available from the National Waterfront Museum in September
