Our next event a lecture by Mary Husted, a story of art and family, on 1st September 2026, 7:30 pm, Park Road, Barry, CF62 6NX. £5 on the door (no card machine), FREE to members.
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Saturday 8th August and Sunday 9th August 2026 11am – 5pm Canonhill Artspace, Off Canon Street, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan CF62 7RH What3words///others.reader.labels The artists and makers of Canonhill Artspace studios are opening their doors to reveal their unique working environments. There will be a chance to meet the artists and discuss their work in a
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Talk by professional paper conservator Emily O’Reilly on Friday, 29 May 2026 at 7:30 pm at St Francis Millennium Hall. Free to Art Central Friends members, £5 to visitors.
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‘Augustus John, Sir William Orpen and the Beautiful German Spy’, an illustrated talk by Prof Tony Curtis, on Friday, 8 May 2026, at 7:30 pm, St Francis Millennium Hall. Free to members, £5 to non-members. All welcome.
21 February, Saturday. The Artist RICHARD BOWERS has been invited by the AC friends Committee to give us a talk about his exhibition VANISHING POINT which is currently installed at Art Central Gallery on Kings Square. Drinks will be served from 1pm in the gallery Foyer and the Artist talk will take place around 1.30pm.
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Talk on William Hogarth, Tuesday, 3 February 2026, 7:30 pm, at St Francis Millennium Hall. Free to members, £5 to non-members. Join Art Central Friends at the talk for £10 for the year, then will be free for the whole season.
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As part of the current exhibition, the Annual Di Setch Artist Talk will this year be on Saturday 29th March from 2 pm to 3.30 pm at Art Central gallery, Kings Square, Barry CF64 4RW. The talk will be given by DIANE DAVIES (editor of Friends of the National Museum newsletter). ‘Felicity Charlton and Edith
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Dr Ceri Thomas gave an outstanding talk on Saturday evening about his late father, the sculptor Robert ‘Bob’ Thomas. Robert was very much part of the history of Wales and Barry and was the sculptor of the well-known pieces, Aneurin Bevan in Cardiff and the Miner’s Family in the Valleys among many others. We were
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Saturday 14th December, Dr Ceri Thomas will give a talk about his father, Robert Thomas – a famous Welsh Sculptor, in St Francis Millennium Hall.
Saturday 12th October 7.00 pm at St Francis Millennium Hall a talk by Dr Jonathan Hicks on the life of Margaret Lindsey Williams. Maggie, as she liked to be known, was a superb artist who was commissioned to produce portraits of Princess Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Mary and many more of the great and
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