Weekly Digest - 25/5/20
Welcome to the ninth edition of Ffotogallery’s weekly digest! Whilst our offices and gallery are closed, we’re still busy working from home to bring you the latest updates, including creative activities you can take part in at home, resources you can browse online, and we’ll be sharing what arts organisations further afield have on offer.
Competition Time – Glitch art
Congratulations to last week’s winner of our #lowlightphotography photo competition, Liza Cauldwell (@lizacauldwell)! Thank you to everybody who has taken the time to send in their entries.
This week we’re delving into digital with our new theme, glitch art - taking inspiration from Many Voices, One Nation artist Huw Alden Davies, whose project ‘Xennial: Dreaming in Colour’ explores the concept of a microgeneration, ‘xennials’, bridging the gap between two eras described as x gens and millennials, whilst broadening the perspective of Welsh culture through photography and lens-based media.
If you’re new to glitch art, we’ve put together some useful information and tools to help you create your own below.
How to enter:
Simply post your photo on Instagram, tag @ffotogallery, and use the hashtag #glitch. We’ll repost our favourites on our account, and the winning image will be featured in next week’s digest.
Don’t have Instagram? Don’t worry! You can email your photos to us on [email protected], just make sure you include the name of the person who took the photo.
Deadline for entries: Midnight on Sunday 31st May.
You might also want to check out the following:
How to: Glitch art
We’ve prepared this handy guide to experimenting with glitching your own photos for this week’s competition.
Find out more
Last week’s entries
You can now check out all of the entries we received for last week’s #archive themed competition. Head over to our Channel page for past entries and the latest updates from Ffotogallery.
Screen Walks
Part of the Photographers’ Gallery’s digital programme, Screen Walks is a series of live-streamed artist/researcher led explorations of online spaces. All events are now available to watch online.
Oriel Lockdown
Aberystwyth Arts Centre are looking for work responding to the pandemic to be featured in a special exhibition when they reopen. Open to any medium, find out how to enter for free below.
Being creative in quarantine
Sofa Share Wales are streaming three times a day, seven days a week to connect you with a variety of creatives. Head over to their Facebook page for the latest timetable, including photography, music, literature and drama activities.
Amber + Side Gallery
As well as their extensive archive, Amber + Side Gallery in Newcastle have a varied collection of artist talks and videos, plus films from Side Cinema which you can watch for free online.