Final day of our archive sale includes limited edition artist designed tee shirts / made baby grows and exclusive merch & paintings from @kateshooter_studio #wickerwoman exhibition prints, paintings and photographs from past exhibitions and artists who’ve shown at MADE. Last chance to see & buy at bargain prices a little bit of Cardiff art scene’s history … open 12-4 Sunday 17 May CF24 3LS
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@zenablackwellartist@tessgrayart@eleanor_whiteman@kateshooter_studio@delphicampbell@ellieyoungart@mana.baoosh
This epic table ‘ancient woods’ by Josh Leeson that has graced made since the art of the table exhibition in 2023 is looking for a good home. Made out of triangular oak stair treads from a house in France, and found timber - it’s a unique piece, hand crafted and designed to move with the material and conditions of time & environment. And accommodates up to 8 people seated.
Available through own art 0% interest collectors scheme.
#oakhandmadefurniture #handmadefurniture #handmade #tables
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Some highlights from our archive sale which continues until Sunday this weekend :
1. fissure / Eleanor whiteman / collagraph £60 (rubandroll associate project)
2. Erosion / Eleanor whiteman / oil on canvas £750
3. the Harbour / David Wallis / Lino print framed £160
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Eleanor Whiteman is based in Caerphilly, South Wales, and works across various printmaking techniques including lino, collagraph and etching which informs her painting. Rub & Roll project in 2024, where she spent over 6 weeks working in a close group of painter / printmaking exploring new techniques taught by Sarah Garvey, was critical in expanding her visual language, articulating her experience and understanding of landscapes that involves a sense of deep time as well as linear time as experienced through walking. Working with plates mirrored geological processes, and brought in tensions and relational shapes and forms.
Her background in Geology and photography has deepened her relationship with the landscape as a recurrent dialogue within her practice which includes painting, printmaking and photography. Engaging with the outdoors is an important part of her creative process, exploring her connection to place, and is particularly drawn to the coast “where Time is exposed on an epic scale.”
David Wallis pursued printmaking as a lifelong passion in his spare time, alongside his work within the Dept of Physiology at Cardiff University, which he joined in 1967 as a lecturer, becoming Professor in 1983, and setting up a degree in Neuroscience. David’s artist daughter Naomi Wallis introduced his lino prints to MADE a few years ago, and the range of subject and bold designs, centring around his subject of where man and nature meet - through architecture, engineering, boatmaking showed his evident appreciation of form and design which were well expressed in lino printing as a technique.
#linoprints #collagraphprints
#madearchive
@eleanor_whiteman@__________east
“Angel Above’ mixed media on canvas 2023 @arthur.leeson £130. On show this weekend at MADE . Last chance to visit the archive sale in person today & tommorrow .
#cardiffmade #roathgalleryweekend
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This weekend (16/17 May) as part of Roath Gallery weekend will be the last chance to see works from associated artists we’ve had the pleasure of working with over the past 10 years & more - including Cardiff based artist Lucia Jones’ exquisite new series of gouache paintings on paper of curtains; setting the stage for a glimpse into hidden interiors.
See bio for link to the online sale catalogue for prices & titles.
Lucia presented her solo exhibition ‘ Tales from the cutting room floor’ in 2020 at MADE as the 2019 solo art prize winner. Since then she has received the Wakelin prize & showed at Glynn Vivian as well as internationally.
Lucia’s work presents “a glossy, witty and luminous exploration largely through painting female protagonist subjects, often referring to Hollywood standards of glamour, revealed on the point of imploding, despite appearances.
Her latest works take further the idea of dislocated self identity - glimpses as to what we are missing revealed through its omission, the core of who we are, visibly blanked out of the ‘version’ presented; referring back to the stereotypical ‘feminine’ of the office serving the environment and social place, conforming to standards of decoration as if a part of the furniture; surface glamour is denoted by a red lip, hinting at the misogynistic reduction of woman to the realm of fetish, underlined through menial ‘roles’ of the receptionist, always struck behind a desk, seated.
Perhaps these ‘retro’ tropes of womanhood are still current; it’s perhaps in looking backwards that Jones reveals the present; the pressure to appear perfect, to overstretch, to be expected to service others to the point of extinction.”
#luciajonesart #roathgalleryweekend #painting
@luciajones.art@__________east
A selection of Cardiff based artist Zena Blackwell’s small paper based works are currently for sale and viewing this weekend at MADE .
Zena Blackwell’s MADE solo prize winner exhibition in 2018 ‘seen not heard’ marked the arrival of a tour de force on the Cardiff Arts Scene, and Zena’s artistic profile and output has continued to grow since then, with her work being bought internationally.
Juggling curation, motherhood and a serious engagement with painting, Zena has pursued her practice with the ambition of achieving a sustainable career, alongside artistic progression through evolving technique and pictorial scope.
In exploring the particular realm of childhood, Zena has turned the convention of portraiture around; through her particular and recognisable language, painting has become the conduit to convey a parallel world, where the uncanny exists as the norm.
See our website catalogue link in bio for Zena’s work available through MADE.
#zenablackwell #cardiff #paintings #roathgalleryweekend
@zenablackwellartist
Sarah Garvey is showing and selling a selection of her back catalogue of prints at MADE this weekend. A well known exhibitor at MADE, having participated in many of our Spring and Winter exhibitions and an Eirian Llwyd print award recipient. Her work often focuses on a single figure, within an interior space, and the action of a light source which overwhelms or reveals pattern and form. Layers of overpainting are part of her process, as she pushes representation to its near disintegration into abstracted areas taken from the surroundings. Printmaking and painting are in direct conversation, allowing her to isolate areas and shapes within printmaking, or to fracture an image within broken down elements. Sarah led the Rub & Roll project in 2024, bringing her mentor Lisa Chappell into the workshop to teach her approach. A contemporary artist born in London, Sarah lives a nd works in her home studio in the vale of Glamorgan.
“My work is about connection. I aim to create ambiguity between our inside and outside, two vast feeling spaces.’’ Figurative motifs act as a doorway in both past and present work. The image outcome is unknown until found, grown through multiple types of techniques from an initial seed of imagery.
Recurring themes are figuration, boundary spaces, the elements and natural phenomena.
“The fixing of a moment, the pinning of an image at the corner of your eye, fleeting, ephemeral with earthy physicality. Cutting, scratching, washing, rubbing, compressing.The materiality; pigment, oil, paper, felt, steel. This contradiction resonates with me, how it feels to inhabit a body subject to forces of nature, more than the sum of its parts.”
The prints began with a text chosen by instinct. After initial works I began to focus on the idea of disintegration. How far can the figure dissemble and remain. This felt like a lived idea, since becoming a mother but also an adult, I struggle to maintain physical and mental integrity. My body edges/boundaries are semipermeable.”
@sarahgarveyprintmaker
#printmakingart #rub&roll #sarahgarvey #roathgalleryweekend
For this final weekend at MADE see selected still life works from Tess Gray that featured in MADE ‘s 2022 exhibition ‘Art of the Table’ - a unique exhibition which re-considers still-life painting, ceramics and furniture within the contemporary, imaginary landscape of the tableaux; where the functional, lavish and wondrous come together to confound expectations of place, taste, and story.
A platform for ideas laid out; where an object’s use and concept coincide and the table itself can be considered above the level of service, to a dialogue within Art.
“How to cure a cold, heal inflammation, lose weight, gain weight, soothe anxiety, grow our intelle:ct or even give us good luck. The benefits and properties of foods, medicines and supplements can be found listed endlessly from every media source available. The way we fortify and heal our bodies is ever changing with technology but traditional natural sources still stand the test of time. Whether you credit a daily ginger tea as the key to your surviving flu season or a rose quartz stone for mending you broken heart, these remedies have stayed with us alongside medicine as sources of healing our aches and pains. I chose these subjects not to bring into question the validity of any remedy or medicine over another but simply to appreciate the visual form and wander the hazy area between science, magic and aliment.”
Tess Gray is an artist formerly based at Kings Road Studios, Cardiff. She graduated from Winchester School of Art in 2012 and was artist in residence atAamir Art House, Goa in 2018. She has since been shortlisted for Jackson’s Painting Prize 2019 and Beep Painting Biennial in W20, where she was also awarded the Peoples Prize.
For Tess Gray, it is the plate and the objects which are to be consumed by the eye in painting or eating, which hold symbolic power. Gemstones sit next to food as if offerings rather than a menu choice, and nicely subvert and pay homage to classic set ups of Dutch still life or classic tableaux.
#stilllife #paintings #artofthetable #roathgalleryweekend
For this coming ROATH GALLERY WEEKEND, our front exhibition area will feature the work of Heather Leeson.
A selection of Heather’s Floral series from the past 5 years will be displayed alongside her larger work ‘resilience’ from her solo show in 2018 at MADE as part of MADE’s Archive Show. Heather uses mixed media: combining printing techniques, with drawing and over painting.
Originally from Yorkshire, Heather moved to Cardiff over 10 years ago, having lived in France.
Trained in Bristol, Heather has explored ceramics and printmaking, and is fascinated by surface pattern and playing with the hand-drawn gesture, amongst the repeat patterns referenced in block textile printing.
To see the range of works by Heather on show in the gallery look at our online catalogue by clicking on the links in our bio.
come in and see the work in person Sat 16 May from 10-6pm and Sunday 17 May from 12-4pm .
#painting #floralmotifs #heatherleeson #roathgalleryweekend #cardiffartists
Cardiff M.A.D.E programme for Roath Gallery Weekend, 15-17 May 2026
M.A.D.E’s Archive Sale continues through RGW. Explore selected paintings, prints, drawings and ceramics by talented artists including work from past exhibitions.
Friday 15 May
Opening Hours: Closed
Saturday 16 May
Opening Hours: 10:00 - 17:00
Sunday 17 May
Opening Hours: 12:00 - 16:00
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Selected paintings from Kate shooters’ #wickerwoman 2022 solo show at MADE gallery now on show as part of our archive sale … open this weekend sat 10-5 / sun 12-4
PLUS Paintings , Prints, ceramics, artist tees by associate artists all at reduced prices - available online to buy as well check bio link to web catalogue
#art #artgalleries
