'A Looming Storm' 1995
'Dwellings' 1999
Artists
Arthur Giardelli
Brendan Burns
Carol Hiles
Christine Kinsey
Chris Shurrock
Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Dennis Gardner
Dilys Jackson
Emrys Williams
Glyn Jones
Harvey Hood
John Selway
Martyn Jones
Peter Seabourne
Peter Spriggs
Robert Harding
Robert Alwyn Hughes
Sue Hunt
Sue Williams
Tom Piper
Antonia Spowers
Richard Renshaw
Ken Elias
Arthur Giardelli
Born in London. During the Second World War he was a part-time member of the Fire Service. After the war he resumed his career in art and undertook two lecture tours in Holland before becoming a tutor at University College, Aberystwyth in 1958.
He taught there for 30 years during which time he helped found the University Art Collection(and advised Swansea University on theirs). For much of his time he was represented by the Grosvenor Gallery in London. On his retirement from formal teaching he was made an Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales. From 1965 to 1975, Arthur was also a member of the Committee of the Welsh Arts Council. His exhibiting career has been extensive and his work is now in the public collections of the Tate Gallery, National Museum of Wales, National Library of Wales, Contemporary Art Society of Wales, Arts Council, Brecknock Museum, Tenby Museum as well as museums and galleries in New York, Dubln, Nantes, Bratislavia and Prague. In 1986 he was awarded the Silver Medal by the Czechoslavak Society for International Relations.
Arthur Giardelli was one of the founders of the 56 Group Wales in 1956 and is now President.
What next? "That is the virtue of being a painter. My great fear is that if I don't paint for a week, it will be even more difficult. If I don't paint for a month, I may give it up for ever, so the constant challenge is that you must keep working. You must paint. You must draw. It's like speaking. I met a chap who was recently out of prison; he found it difficult to talk at all. So you've got to carry on doing this job. Picasso was right about it "Je ne cherche pas, je trouve" I do not seek I find. You are finding out, you are on a journey. Rather like Dante's journey.
Nel mezzo del cammin de nostra vita
mi ritrovai in una selva occura,
che la diritta via era smarrita.
In the middle of the journey of our life
I came to myself in a dark wood
Because the strait was lost.
Now that was the very start. He never stopped travelling. He reached the presence of God finally in his hundreth canto. You have to keep going."
From Arthur Giardelli : Conversations with Derek Shiel