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Mostyn Gallery

Mostyn is an international contemporary art gallery in Llandudno, Wales.
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There's more to Mostyn than its reputation as the foremost contemporary gallery and visual arts centre in Wales. Behind an impressive Edwardian terracotta facade, and topped with a landmark gold spire, in the traditional seaside town of Llandudno, the original turn of the century galleries are merged with stunning modern spaces in an award-winning architectural design. The six gallery spaces exhib

it the best in international contemporary art and craft, showing artists and makers from Wales and beyond. With friendly staff, activities for all ages, a lovely shop and a bright and airy café, there's something for everyone.

04/09/2026

"The UK’s health and care system is failing its people: this is the powerful message that Rafael Pérez Evans delivers in his solo exhibition, ‘Brown Notes’ at Mostyn, Wales, through a set of provocations concerning the harrowing realities of those interacting with these systems."

Thank you to Laura Robertson for reviewing Brown Notes for Frieze. Learn more about each of the works presented in the show and the research informing Rafael Pérez Evans’s practice here: https://www.frieze.com/article/rafael-perez-evans-brown-notes-2026-review
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"Mae system iechyd a gofal y DU yn methu ei phobl: dyma'r neges bwerus y mae Rafael Pérez Evans yn ei gyfleu yn ei arddangosfa unigol, 'Nodiadau Brown' ym Mostyn, Cymru, trwy set o ysgogiadau ynghylch realiti brawychus y rhai sy'n rhyngweithio â'r systemau hyn."

Diolch i Laura Robertson am adolygu Nodiadau Brown ar gyfer Frieze. Dysgwch fwy am bob un o'r gweithiau a gyflwynir yn y sioe a'r ymchwil sy'n llywio ymarfer Rafael Pérez Evans yma: https://www.frieze.com/article/rafael-perez-evans-brown-notes-2026-review
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📸 Rafael Pérez Evans

02/09/2026

Discover the ideas and processes behind DARCH’s work this September!

Heaven in the Ground is an installation and immersive soundwork, which reflects the artist's diasporic connection to Wales, underscoring its importance as a compassionate and culturally rich land. It brings together their Somali, Indian and Welsh cultural heritages, merging folkloric traditions to create new ecological rituals which challenge colonial narratives of death, decay and exploitation of land.

Gain a deeper understanding of how and why DARCH created Heaven in the Ground, directly from the artist themselves, at our upcoming events below:

🗓️ Audio Described Tour
🕰️ 15 September, 11am - 12pm
This tour is designed for blind and visually impaired audiences. Guide dogs are welcome.

🗓️ Artist Talk
🕰️15 September, 2pm - 3pm

Learn more here: https://mostyn.org/whats-on/
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Dewch i ddarganfod y syniadau a'r prosesau y tu ôl i waith DARCH y mis Medi hwn!

Mae Annwn yn osodiad ac yn waith sain trochol, sy'n adlewyrchu cysylltiad diasporaidd yr artist â Chymru, gan danlinellu ei phwysigrwydd fel tir tosturiol a chyfoethog yn ddiwylliannol. Mae'n dwyn ynghyd eu treftadaethau diwylliannol Somali, Indiaidd a Chymreig, gan uno traddodiadau gwerin i greu defodau ecolegol newydd sy'n herio naratifau trefedigaethol o farwolaeth, pydredd ac ecsbloetio tir.

Enillwch ddealltwriaeth ddyfnach o sut a pham y creodd DARCH Annwn, yn uniongyrchol gan yr artistiaid eu hunain, yn ein digwyddiadau sydd i ddod isod:

Taith Disgrifiad Sain
15 Medi, 11yb - 12yp
Mae'r daith hon wedi'i chynllunio ar gyfer cynulleidfaoedd dall a phobl â nam ar eu golwg. Mae croeso i gŵn tywys.

Sgwrs Artist
15 Medi, 2yp - 3yp

Dysgwch fwy yma: https://mostyn.org/whats-on/
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Liverpool Biennial
At the Library

01/09/2026

You have until this Thursday to help grow our community sculpture!

Both of our exhibiting artists, Rafael Pérez Evans and DARCH, work with three-dimensional sculpture. To get involved, follow the instructions provided to make and decorate your own origami flowers or insects. You can decorate them however you like, dedicate one to someone or a cause you champion, or draw inspiration from the themes explored in Brown Notes and Heaven in the Ground.

Learn more here: https://mostyn.org/event/summer-holiday-activity-grow-our-sculpture/
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Mae gennych chi tan ddydd Iau yma i helpu i dyfu ein cerflun cymunedol!

Mae ein dau artist sy'n arddangos, Rafael Pérez Evans a DARCH, yn gweithio gyda cherflunwaith tri dimensiwn. I gymryd rhan, dilynwch y cyfarwyddiadau a ddarperir i wneud ac addurno eich blodau neu bryfed origami eich hun. Gallwch eu haddurno sut bynnag y dymunwch, cyflwyno un i rywun neu achos rydych chi'n ei hyrwyddo, neu dynnu ysbrydoliaeth o'r themâu a archwiliwyd yn Nodiadau Brown ac Annwn.

Dysgwch fwy yma: https://mostyn.org/event/summer-holiday-activity-grow-our-sculpture/

30/08/2026

Fugitive II (Morning Glory)

Within Brown Notes, two seven-metre emergency ladders, enclosed by safety cages of the kind fixed to institutional buildings, rise towards the gallery’s skylight.

A morning glory climbs their rungs a little further each day. Each deep-purple flower opens and dies within a single day. This accelerated cycle echoes crip time — a bending of the imagined healthy lifespan — while the vines, holding onto whatever they can find as they climb, recall the delicate systems disabled and Mad people build in order to keep living.

Rafael Pérez Evans' Brown Notes traces fugitive routes through failed care. This work depicts another escape route, this one towards the sky.
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Fugitive II (Morning Glory)

O fewn Nodiadau Brown, mae ysgol argyfwng saith metr wedi'i hamgáu gan gawell diogelwch, o'r math sydd wedi'i osod ar adeiladau sefydliadol, yn codi tuag at ffenestr to'r oriel.

Mae gogoniant y bore yn dringo ei risiau ychydig ymhellach bob dydd. Mae pob blodyn porffor tywyll yn agor ac yn marw o fewn un diwrnod. Mae'r cylch cyflymach hwn yn adleisio amser crip - plygu'r oes iach ddychmygol - tra bod y gwinwydd, gan ddal gafael ar beth bynnag y gallant ddod o hyd iddo wrth iddynt ddringo, yn dwyn i gof y systemau cain sydd wedi'u hanalluogi a'r bobl wallgof yn eu hadeiladu er mwyn parhau i fyw.

Mae Nodiadau Brown gan Rafael Pérez Evans yn olrhain llwybrau ffoaduriaid trwy ofal aflwyddiannus. Mae'r gwaith hwn yn darlunio llwybr dianc arall, yr un hon tuag at yr awyr.
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📸 Rob Battersby

SPAIN arts & culture
Instituto Cervantes London

28/08/2026

Call for applications!
Agored 2026

Agored 2026 offers an opportunity for anyone – whether a professional artist, a student, or someone who creates art as a hobby – to apply to be part of an annual exhibition at Galeri (Caernarfon).

Generous cash prizes are available:
£1,000 Judges' Choice
£400 Highly Commended
£250 People's Choice

Application deadline: 11.59pm, Thursday 19 September

Learn more here: https://galericaernarfon.com/agored2026/
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Galwad am geisiadau!
Agored 2026

Mae Agored 2026 yn cynnig cyfle i unrhyw un – boed yn artist proffesiynol, myfyriwr, neu rywun sy'n creu celf fel hobi – i wneud cais i fod yn rhan o arddangosfa flynyddol yn Galeri.

Mae gwobrau ariannol hael ar gael:
£1,000 Dewis y Beirniaid
£400 Canmoliaeth Uchel
£250 Dewis y Bobl

Dyddiad cau ceisiadau: 11.59yh, dydd Iau 19 Medi

Dysgwch fwy yma: https://galericaernarfon.com/agored2026/

27/08/2026

Last chance to see In the Window: Wayne Clark!

Wayne makes work with the firing in mind, creating marks in the clay and producing simple forms with the intention of catching the ash from the fire. At sustained temperatures in the kiln, the ash turns to glaze, which pools as it runs over the piece.

Working with a mixture of crank and other stoneware bodies with additives of Ruabon red clay and coarse sand, Wayne then uses various ash and shino glazes as well as vitreous slips.

Discover Wayne’s collection of work, from large sculptural pieces to smaller functional pieces, on display at Siop Mostyn until 31 August.

26/08/2026

🎬 On Making “Sownd”

Manon Awst and Dylan Huw’s exhibition for Wales in Venice is titled Sownd, a Welsh word meaning both “stuck” and “structurally sound”. This reflects the project’s focus on fragile, shifting environments and the resilience found within them.

The work is informed by research into peatlands in Wales. By connecting these sites with Venice, the artists highlight shared ecological challenges and the ways places hold and transform stories over time.

The short film On Making “Sownd” is showing in our upstairs gallery until 3 October.
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🎬 Ar Wneud “Sownd”

Mae arddangosfa Manon Awst a Dylan Huw ar gyfer Cymru yn Fenis yn dwyn y teitl Sownd, y gair Cymraeg sydd hefyd yn golygu “cadarn yn strwythurol”. Mae hyn yn adlewyrchu ffocws y prosiect ar amgylcheddau bregus, newidiol a’r gwydnwch a geir ynddynt.

Mae’r gwaith wedi’i lywio gan ymchwil i fawndiroedd yng Nghymru. Drwy gysylltu’r safleoedd hyn â Fenis, mae’r artistiaid yn tynnu sylw at heriau ecolegol a rennir a’r ffyrdd y mae lleoedd yn dal ac yn trawsnewid straeon dros amser.

Mae’r ffilm fer Ar Wneud “Sownd” yn cael ei dangos yn ein horiel i fyny’r grisiau tan 3 Hydref.
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Cymru yn Fenis Wales in Venice
Oriel Davies
Oriel Myrddin Gallery
Art Fund
Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru | Arts Council of Wales

25/08/2026

Free drop-in workshop this Wednesday!
Memento Mori – Create collaged memory boxes

What are your hobbies, passions or interests? What do you celebrate? What do you advocate for? What makes you happy?

Join us for this free summer holiday workshop for families and children, where you’ll create collaged memory boxes that celebrate something important in your life.

Drop in any time between 11am – 3pm.

Learn more here: https://mostyn.org/event/drop-in-workshop-memento-mori-create-collaged-memory-boxes-2/
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Memento Mori – Creu blychau atgofion efo collage

Beth yw eich hobïau, eich angerdd neu eich diddordebau? Beth rydych chi’n ei ddathlu? Dros beth rydych chi’n ymgyrchu? Beth sy’n eich gwneud chi’n hapus?

Ymunwch â ni ar gyfer y gweithdy gwyliau haf rhad ac am ddim i deuluoedd a phlant, lle byddwch yn creu blychau atgofion efo collage sy’n dathlu rhywbeth pwysig yn eich bywyd.

Gallwch alw heibio unrhyw bryd rhwng 11yb a 3yp.

Dysgwch fwy yma: https://mostyn.org/event/drop-in-workshop-memento-mori-create-collaged-memory-boxes-2/

24/08/2026

There's still time to help us build our community sculpture!

Pop by Mostyn on any of the dates below to take part:

25, 27, 28 & 29 August
1, 2 & 3 September

Follow the instructions provided to make your own origami flowers or insects. Feel free to decorate them, dedicate one to someone or to a cause you champion, or simply make one for yourself. You can take your creation home with you, but you may also wish to add it to our growing artwork.

Learn more here: https://mostyn.org/event/summer-holiday-activity-grow-our-sculpture/
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Mae amser o hyd i'n helpu i adeiladu ein cerflun cymunedol!

Galwch heibio i Mostyn ar unrhyw un o'r dyddiadau isod i gymryd rhan:

25, 27, 28 a 29 Awst
1, 2 a 3 Medi

Dilynwch y cyfarwyddiadau a ddarperir i wneud eich blodau neu bryfed origami eich hun. Mae croeso i chi eu haddurno, cyflwyno un i rywun neu i achos rydych chi'n ei hyrwyddo, neu wneud un i chi'ch hun. Gallwch fynd â'ch creadigaeth adref gyda chi, ond efallai yr hoffech hefyd ei hychwanegu at ein gwaith celf sy'n tyfu.

Dysgwch fwy yma: https://mostyn.org/event/summer-holiday-activity-grow-our-sculpture/

23/08/2026

Book now!
Artist Talk | DARCH: Heaven In The Ground
🗓️ Tuesday 15 September, 2pm - 3pm

Heaven in the Ground is a soundwork and installation which tells the story of bedrock – the earth underneath our feet – as a great connector which holds all histories; prehistoric, colonial, personal, as well as possible gentler futures.

Led by artists Umulkhayr Mohamed and Radha Patel, this talk will give you an insight into the artist’s practice and making process, as well as a more in depth look into the references and themes present in the work.

Learn more here: https://mostyn.org/event/curator-talk-darch-heaven-in-the-ground/
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Archebwch nawr!
Sgwrs Artist | DARCH: Annwn
🗓️ Dydd Mawrth 15 Medi, 2yp - 3yp

Mae Annwn yn waith sain a gosodiad sy'n adrodd hanes y graigwely – y ddaear o dan ein traed – fel cysylltydd gwych sy'n dal pob hanes; cynhanesyddol, trefedigaethol, personol, yn ogystal â dyfodol mwy tyner o bosibl.

Dan arweiniad yr artistiaid Umulkhayr Mohamed a Radha Patel, bydd y sgwrs hon yn rhoi cipolwg i chi ar ymarfer a phroses greu'r artist, yn ogystal â golwg fanylach ar y cyfeiriadau a'r themâu sy'n bresennol yn y gwaith.

Dysgwch fwy yma: https://mostyn.org/event/curator-talk-darch-heaven-in-the-ground/
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📸Rob Battersby

Liverpool Biennial
At the Library

Address

Mostyn, 12 Vaughan Street
Llandudno
LL301AB

Opening Hours

Tuesday	10:30am - 5pm
Wednesday	10:30am - 5pm
Thursday	10:30am - 5pm
Friday	10:30am - 5pm
Saturday	10:30am - 5pm
Sunday	10:30am - 5pm

Telephone

+441492879201

Website

http://www.mostyn.org/

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