Exhibition

Safle Celf / Safle Creu / Y Wal / Derbynfa | AGORED 2025

22/11/2025 – 31/01/2026

This year’s Open Exhibition features over 50 artworks by artists from Wales and beyond. A wide range of media is on display in the Safle Creu, Safle Celf, Y Wal and the reception area – including photography, film, sculpture, painting, textiles, and carvings on slate and wellington boots.

This year’s judges were Llŷr Evans, Ella Louise Jones, Ffion Evans (Galeri’s Arts and Wellbeing Manager), and Nia Arfon (Galeri’s Chief Executive).

Congratulations to the following artists:
Judges prize £1000 - Sioned Medi Evans
Highly Commended £400 – Gwyn Williams
People’s Choice Prize £250 – Visit Galeri Caernarfon to vote for your favourite artwork

CEI LLECHI | Hiraeth

Marged Owain

December - March

This series of work interprets the values of traditional craft in new artefacts that experiment with making and with the story behind the object. The concentric circles are inspired by woodturning and carvings on ancient slates from the Ogwen Valley. The bronze bases represent the importance and value of the time spent learning these craft skills. The glass candles symbolize the fragility of life, and the Welsh thread refers to the varied lengths of everyone’s lives. The purpose of the work is to commemorate and celebrate our traditional crafts, appreciating the skills I inherited from my family in learning these ancient crafts.

ORIEL CAFFI | Inside Out

Diana Williams

28/12/25 – 13/01/26

Since retiring as an art lecturer from the School of Education at Bangor University, Diana now works freelance creating prints and textiles. Her work is often spontaneous, recording certain passages of time within day to day life either at home or beyond, expressing feelings, emotions and text to provoke responses, demonstrating that art reflects the world warts and all.

The proceeds from this exhibition will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians and UNICEF Ukraine.

AR Y FFRÂM | Towards a Deep Map of Bwlch y Ddeufaen.

Alison Craig

16/10/2025 – 19/01/2026

My work as a visual artist investigates the interfaces between drawing, painting and printmaking and the relations between figuration and abstraction. Observational studies made on location are developed in the studio to evoke a sense of place and the exhilaration of the changing seasons; memories of journeys made and a sense of time passing. These preoccupations have kindled an interest in “Deep Mapping”, in which conventional cartography merges with and is subverted by human experience. Deep mapping addresses questions of time and scale, and ideally includes graphic elements, time-based media and a “database”.

Bwlch y Ddeufaen lies 1,300m above sea-level in an important historic landscape on the edge of Eryri National Park. Bwlch y Ddeufaen carried the main highway to the west for at least two thousand years. It remains a public right of way, desolate and windswept, crossed by of trains of huge electricity pylons.

This Deep Map of Bwlch y Ddeufaen started life in 2020 as the final project in an Art & Archaeology distance-learning module with the University of the Highlands and Islands, Orkney. A deep mapping project is, by its’ very nature, open- ended and liable to continuous readjustment. The work displayed here comprises a stage in a journey, rather than its’ ending.