They will be recruiting a number of staff between now and September 2014 when the new building opens. All applications will be processed using the University’s recruitment system.

1. Articulture. Articulture has come together with the Wye Valley River Festival, the National Eisteddfod and the Pontio Arts and Innovation Centre to offer three exciting commission opportunitites to artists of any genre who want to create small-scale, innovative…

Peter Boyd has been creating valuable unique sculptures for 25 years. His passion is for making inspiring forms from trees. He has a unique way with wood; his work is a powerful synthesis of the beauty of the tree and the imagination and skill of the sculptor. He is happy to work with you through all the stages of the creation to form a sculpture that has…

Mountain Rescuers were alerted to a report of an Avalanche over the weekend. 

The Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team were alerted at 13:22hrs on Saturday to a report of an avalanche on the PYG track on Snowdon. A male in a party of two had been struck by the avalanche and was reported to be injured approximately 200m above the interchange. 

With a low cloudbase, and a…

The majestic Herefordshire cliffs

After a brutal night of hefty winds, Britain woke up to discover that its western chunk had been sheered off and was now tossing in the north Atlantic, 150 miles off the coast of Iceland.

People in Herefordshire were first to realise the principality had been removed when they awoke to find themselves living on…

Promoting high-end craft is all in a day’s work for three local artisans who have recently collaborated to bring their workshops to the ‘High Street’. At ‘Siop iard’ in Stryd y Plas, Caernarfon, artists Ann Catrin Evans, Angela Evans and Dave Stephen are benefiting from shoppers’ demands for a quality local product and unique retail experience.

“We are individual artists who work together regularly as…

New Work – Oriel Ysbyty Gwynedd exhibition – Traethlinau Llanddwyn ShorelinesDate: January 16, 2014  
Author: karen williams  
Category: exhibitions, Llanddwyn, Llanddwyn Jewellery  
Tags: jewellery, Llanddwyn, metal vessels, Oriel Ysbyty Gwynedd  
Post navigation← Helfa Gelf 2013

I’ve just set up the first exhibition of the work derived from my visits to Llanddwyn in the foyer of Ysbyty…

Natural flood defences, like felling trees into rivers to slow their flow, have proved successful

Britain should turn swathes of its upland pastures into woodland to help prevent flooding, according to a former environment minister, Lord Rooker.

He said new forests would slow flooding by trapping water with their roots.

The idea of "rewilding" the uplands is catching on fast…