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Oriel Davies Gallery
The Park, Newtown
Powys SY16 2NZ
Telephone: +44 (0) 1686 625041
Fax: +44 (0) 1686 623633
Email: desk@orieldavies.org
Monday - Saturday 10am-5pm
Free Admission

Oriel Davies Gallery Young Curators is a fun and inspirational Group of young people that meets at the Gallery weekly. If you are aged between 15 and 24 you can get directly involved with exhibition organisation. The programme is free. You do not have to be studying art and you do not have to be in education to join. All we ask is that you are enthusiastic and prepared to give up some of your spare time.

Sessions are held at the gallery outside school/college hours. These include learning new skills, taking trips to other galleries and visiting artists’ studios. The Young Curators is about making new friends, working as a team and exploring new ideas and skills. You will learn all about what it takes to put on a major exhibition and then put one on at the Gallery!

The Young Curators work with the project officer and Gallery staff to learn about:

  • How ideas for art exhibitions are generated
  • How to research artists and artworks
  • How artworks are chosen for exhibition
  • Working with contemporary artists and other curators
  • Practical things such as borrowing artworks; transporting, conservation and care of artwork
  • Exhbition design, layout and lighting
  • Interpretation & education - how to engage visitors in an exhibition
  • Organising related events - openings, education workshops & events
  • Marketing & publicity

Past exhibitions curated by Oriel Davies’ Young Curators

Sing on tree reading "Where would you rather be"

Lines of Desire
Young Curators 2010

28 August 2010 - 03 November 2010

An exhibition which brings together artists who explore ideas connected with journeys, maps and routes, borders, timelines, songlines, narratives and story lines. This rich and ambitious show includes drawing, photography, moving image, sound and installation by 20 national and international artists. more >

Astronaut holding Welsh flag

Extraordinary Days
Young Curators 2009

04 July 2009 - 05 September 2009

Extraordinary Days is an exhibition looking at positivity and humour in contemporary art. It has been organised by the Oriel Davies Young Curators - a group of 14 young people based in mid Wales, aged between 16 and 23: Aishah, Becca, Caitlin, Claudia, Kelly, Kirsty, Laura, Nia, Sarah, Stephanie, Sophie, Rachael, Rhian and Rhys. more >

Gallery installation detail

Me v U
Young Curators 2008

09 August 2008 - 04 October 2008

Curated by Oriel Davies Young Curators, 'ME v U' focuses on ‘conflict’. Through personal arguments, political debates, cultural differences, family struggles and internal struggles, we all face conflict on a daily basis. With newly commissioned work by Rabab Ghazoul alongside work by Andy Warhol, Paul Seawright and Richard Billingham, 'ME v U' explores what conflict means to the individual. more >