The Welsh Group
| Formation | 1948 |
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| Type | Visual arts |
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Membership
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Jacqueline Alkema, |
| Website | www.thewelshgroup-art.com |
Jacqueline Alkema,
Eileen Allan,
Jenny Allan,
Lynne Bebb,
Simone Bizzell-Browning,
Paul Brewer,
Glenys Cour,
Ivor Davies,
Ken Dukes,
Wendy Earle,
Heather Eastes,
Lorna Edmiston,
Paul Edwards,
Ken Elias,
Anthony Evans,
Veronica Gibson,
Chris Griffin,
Robert Harding,
Clive Hicks-Jenkins,
Sue Hiley Harris,
Mary Husted,
Dilys Jackson,
Jacqueline Jones,
Angela Kingston,
Dan Llywelyn Hall,
Robert Macdonald,
Philip Muirden,
Michael Organ,
Shirley Anne Owen,
Gustavius Payne,
Roy Powell,
Susan Roberts,
Alan Salisbury,
Philippine Sowerby,
Antonia Spowers,
Ceri Thomas,
Thomasin Toohie,
Jean Walcot,
Islwyn Watkins,
Claudia Williams,
The Welsh Group (Welsh: Y Grŵp Cymreig) is an artists' collective, with the purpose of exhibiting and "giving a voice" to the visual arts in Wales.
The group began in 1948 as the South Wales Group, consisting of both professional and amateur artists. The group's initial conception was a response to the Royal Cambrian Academy's relatively weak representation from south Wales at that time. In the foreword to the South Wales Group’s first exhibition catalogue, David Bell wrote “It is the purpose of the Group to establish a new link between the artists of South Wales and their public".
During the 1960s the South Wales Group had begun exhibiting further afield in north and mid Wales and into Bristol and Shrewsbury. The group adopted its current, broader title of The Welsh Group by 1975, by which time it had also become a fully professional artists' group and, though its south east tendency is still an issue of some contention, the group had expanded its membership beyond south Wales (including a number who are also members of the Royal Cambrian Academy and/or the splinter group initiated in 1956 when the South Wales Group failed to become a southern Academy; the 56 Group Wales).
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