A COLLABORATIVE exhibition between Welsh and Irish artists will be showing in Rhyl in the new year.
Titled Le Chéile, meaning ‘together’, the project is a joint effort between the Leinster Printmaking Studio, based in Co. Kildare, Ireland, and the Regional Print Centre in Wrexham.
It has involved a series of working prints, drawings, collages and e-mails, travelling back and forth across the sea, with artists responding to work they have received.
Co-ordinated by Alison Craig and Pamela de Brí includes work by more than 15 printmakers and is an ongoing project.
The seed for the project lay with John Berger’s account of his communication through drawing with Spanish artist Marisa Camino.
The collaborative drawings were shown at Vanguard Gallery, Cork exhibition as part of the Cork 2005 European Capital of Culture visual arts programme.
Themes of land, language and place emerged as starting points as visual dialogue began, and the work continues to be exchanged by e-mail or post, in notebooks or as first proofs or, in some cases, by exchanging the original plates.
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Le Chéile will be showing at the Rhyl Library Arts Centre between January 9 and February 13.