Image: Jane Sheppard, Grace Vessel, 2023 at St Michael and All Angels, Gwernesney.

8 August – 31 October
curated by Jacquiline Creswell for A+C

Vessel is a curated art trail in remote rural churches near the Black Mountains between Usk and Hay-on-Wye. Seven artworks by seven artists will be shown in seven churches, six of which are maintained by the Friends of Friendless Churches who keep them open all year round. The theme of ‘vessel’ references bodies, boats, secretions and receptacles; each of the artworks will be sited in a particular relationship to the church and its materials.

The exhibition will be open from early August 2024 to late October, ensuring the optimum season for visitors to the churches. It will create a memorable and unique placement of art within a conjunction of landscape and architecture that is often overlooked. It will bring artists of international reputation to an area of outstanding natural beauty.

Welsh translation:

Vessel: llwybr celf mewn eglwysi gwledig anghysbell

Wedi’i guradu gan Jacquiline Creswell ar gyfer Art and Christianity. 

Mae 'Vessel' yn llwybr celf wedi'i guradu mewn eglwysi gwledig anghysbell ger y Mynyddoedd Du rhwng Brynbuga a'r Gelli Gandryll. Bydd saith gwaith celf gan saith artist yn cael eu dangos mewn saith eglwys, chwech ohonynt yn cael eu cynnal gan Friends of Friendless Churches sy'n eu cadw ar agor trwy'r flwyddyn. Mae thema 'Vessel' yn cyfeirio at gyrff, cychod, secretiadau a derbynyddion; bydd pob un o'r gweithiau celf wedi'i leoli mewn perthynas benodol â'r eglwys a'i diwylliant materol.

Bydd 'Vessel' yn creu gosodiad cofiadwy ac unigryw o gelf o fewn cyd-destun o dirwedd a phensaernïaeth sy'n aml yn cael ei hanwybyddu ac yn dod ag artistiaid o fri rhyngwladol i ardal o harddwch naturiol eithriadol.