Gordon Dalton is an artist, writer and curator. He is Project Manager for Art Across The City, Swansea, commissioning public at projects. He also runs Mermaid & Monster, curating and writing about art. He has curated and managed projects for artists including Olaf Breuning, Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan, Merlin James, Richard Deacon, David Blandy, Marjetica Potrc, Yelena Popova, Peter Liversidge, Jacob Dahlgren, Juneau Projects and Helen Sear.
He has shown his work internationally with exhibitions at venues including Bank, Los Angeles; Galerie Skuc, Llubjiana; Collective...
If you’ve ever fancied yourself as the next Agatha Christie or PD James, head to Plympton Library on Friday 3 May for a special crime fiction event.
Simon Hall, BBC crime correspondent for the South West and author of the 'TV Detective' series of novels, will be visiting the library to launch his latest book and give aspiring crime writers useful hints and tips.
Join Mary Da Silva Saude who will draw from speculative fiction to think through radical future imaginaries, with material encounters between texts, tangible images, and film emulsion manifesting in 16mm projections.
Artists from The Unknown Knowns will join Curator, Vickie Fear, and our Artistic Director, Sarah Chapman, for a conversation on the crossovers in their work with moving image.
Join Jilly Payne, Archive Film Programmer at The Box, for a talk that explores the use of its collections in the two Film Commissions that were created in 2018 based on the theme of Revolutions.
Jilly’s talk will look at how the 2018 visual artists used the archive to explore their understanding of a constantly changing technological world and the role that artificial intelligence plays.
Join filmmakers Chris Bailey and Ieuan Jones, winners of The Arts Institute Film Commission 2018 with their film, 'Of Monsters', as they discuss the development of their two-part film from their earlier ideas of writing a play.
They will also take you through the process of navigating the collection at the South West Film & Television Archive (SWFTA) and what they are planning on working on next.
The fashion of the 18th Century is synonymous with luxury and extravagance, but the tumultuous period at the end of the century saw revolution in France affect both society and style.
In this illustrated talk, fashion historian Amber Butchart looks at the politics of dress and display through some of the era's key figures - from Casanova to Catherine the Great, and from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu to Marie Antoinette - to dissect how wealth and power were read on the body through attire, and how the Revolutionary Era brought about huge transformations in the way both men and...
Professor Jason Peacey’s research focuses on the politics and political culture of early modern Britain, and he is particularly interested in the relationships between print culture and political life, and between the citizen and the state.
Jason, one of the editors of a Leverhulme Trust project to produce a new edition of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell, is currently writing a microhistory on politics and religion in a protracted 17th-century land dispute, provisionally entitled The Churchrobber and the Madman.
The habit of gathering at dusk by birds – especially crows, starlings, thrushes, and gulls – shapes their lives, but the birds themselves can also radically alter the physical landscape itself. For centuries naturalists and artists have responded to this remarkable avian behaviour. In turn both the birds and their human observers help inform the way all of us see place and nature.
In a mixture of words, photographs and moving images, British author and naturalist, Mark Cocker, explores these issues in a presentation uniquely written for The Arts Institute, as part of our exploring...
Fancy spending half an hour taking a bite-sized look at our decorative art collections and art exhibitions? If so, why not join us for a 30-minute tour?
Admission is free but places are limited. Collect a ticket from our Welcome Desk or call us and we will post or put one aside for you. Unreserved tickets may also be available on the day so it's worth getting in touch with us to check.
Unless stated, no two tours are the same so there's always a reason to come back and discover more! Everyone who attends our 'Art Bites' tours can use their ticket to get a 20 per cent...
