Workers Gallery

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Small but fierce artist-led studio, #gallery & workshop in S #Wales valleys. Est 2014.Resident artists Chris Williams & Gayle Rogers. #Art & Sport, Graphic Novels, #Photography & Sculpture. Cargo e-bike tours/delivery. Also 'Friends of the Workers Gallery'

Poster in dark yellow, mid blue and white. Top is two speech bubbles overlapped one saying Meet and Make Friends the other contains cartoon images including a camera, musical notes, knitting and some one drinking from a dotty cup.
Artist talk to a seated audience in the interior of a white walled gallery.
Photo of a white walled gallery interior with people seated in rows listening to two people talking.
Poster in bright colours for launch and celebration of Noisy Valley graphic novel. Image of book shows protesters in a hilly valleys landscape.
Cartoon hand drawn figure with funny little crown on. They are saying in a speech bubble - what's that smell?
Hand decorated envelope with the central motif being an arched rectangle. In it is a cartoon style drawing of two figures seated in a scooter in a sunny hilly landscape. They are smiling. The words beneath are in bold black and say Rhondda Drawn and Read.
Drawing in deep blue pencil of a figure next to a grave covered in flowers and football related offerings
Poster in dark yellow, mid blue and white. Top is two speech bubbles overlapped one saying Meet and Make Friends the other contains cartoon images including a camera, musical notes, knitting and some one drinking from a dotty cup.
Greyscale poster for exhibition called Rhondda Drawn and Read with details of the venue the Workers Gallery in Ynyshir. The poster has a small logo with a simple cartoon style line drawing of two figures seated on a lambretta style scooter.
Book being held on the left with just a thumb visible. Book is in an acid orange with a central portrait photo in black and white with 3 similar portraits below in a horizontal row. Large black blocky text at top says Kathy Burke. Smaller white text below it says a mind of my own.
Poster in muted yellows and earthy brown. Image is a linocut of a figures hair morphing into a tee with a bird atop of a branch singing out. Heading in yellow is a rounded bold font in a mustard yellow says winter Open. Artists and the venue details are listed in mainly black type below.
Poster in dark yellow, mid blue and white. Top is two speech bubbles overlapped one saying Meet and Make Friends the other contains cartoon images including a camera, musical notes, knitting and some one drinking from a dotty cup.
Video running through an exhibition of artwork on the walls and plinths. The video is taken in a white walled gallery and begins with focussing on the show poster.
Poster for Friends of the Workers Gallery open art exhibition. Image is a landscape on a bight day. A hand appears to be holding an instant photo that shows the words Winter Open.
Facade of the Workers Gallery with shutter wrap of a photo of a streetscape of back lanes. A pink hoarding is above
Poster for Friends of the Workers Gallery open art exhibition. Image is a landscape on a bight day. A hand appears to be holding an instant photo that shows the words Winter Open.
Poster for Friends of the Workers Gallery open art exhibition. Image is a landscape on a bight day. A hand appears to be holding an instant photo that shows the words Winter Open.
Interior of a white walled gallery photographing a quilt with 4 leaves and curvy wood sculpture in a corner
Large quilt on wall made of colourful rectangle patchwork with 3 large sunflowers at bottom.
Poster for From The Needle by Christine Bowen - an exhibition of textile art. The left hand image column is various stitched leaf motifs.
Poster for From The Trees and exhibition of sculptures created during an outdoors residency at Sausage Camp by Chris Williams. Launch event strap line in red. Photo of spikey wood sculpture being rolled through water by Chris in light blue t-shirt and grey trousers.
Poster for Outsiders exhibition by Marc Davenant - subtitled Journeys through homelessness. Image centrally is a photo of a portrait photo on a dark surface next to spent cigarettes and coffee cup reflected.
Poster for Outsiders exhibition by Marc Davenant - subtitled Journeys through homelessness. Image centrally is a photo of a portrait photo on a dark surface next to spent cigarettes and coffee cup reflected.
3 bright coloured bead keyrings saying Cymru, Cariad & Yma o Hyd
Person (called David Mayne) holding up two drawn portraits of him made by young visitors to the gallery. One is on a clip board - both are on white A4 paper. David is smiling and has short cropped hair and beard and sunglasses on He is smiling. His portraits look like him and are super cool.
Close up photo of long chunky wooden bench at an angle to show bench top geometric pattern.
Painting of two figures floating in a black sky with blue flecks. The top figure has a yellow top and mid brown trousers. The figure below is only visible from the waist up and wears a white sleeveless petticoat.
Poster with an off-white uneven textured background with Outsiders depicted in a black stencil design attop. Below is a photographic image depicting a head shot photo in grey scale of a person with a large beard. The portrait is on dark grey surface with cigarette stubs scattered around and a disposable coffee cup partially. as Moc visible at top right. The image is fel the latent and partially reflected below. WORKERS GALLERY 1 June to 31 August Poster design by Marc Davenant
Poster for cancelled event called Outsiders Stories from the Margins by The Wallich at the Workers Gallery. Image of a head and shoulders of a man facing the viewer with a wooden hoodie pulled over his head.
Poster for outsiders photography exhibition by Marc Davenant. Image shows portrait of man with longish hair and beard lying on dark grey surface with spent cigarettes and half drunk takeaway coffee.
Poster in a cartoon panel style for workshops for Rhondda Drawn and Read. Colourful panels are behind white thought bubbles, exclamations and speech bubbles.
Poster in a classis comic page style with bright colours and cartoon icons including speech and thinking bubbles. The heading is Rhondda Drawn and Read in 3D style white drawing.
Alt Text: Mid blue, white and bright yellow poster for the Meet and Make Friends for those living with dementia and their family friends and carers. Two speech bubbles at the top contain the group's title & cartoon style drawings of heads and various creative activities. Two more speech bubbles below have the dates. Below that is the venue dates.
Poster for Rhondda Drawn and Read comics project in a comic style panel full of white speech and thought bubbles over a brightly coloured background
Poster with an off-white uneven textured background with Outsiders depicted in a black stencil design at top. Below is a photographic image depicting a head shot photo in grey scale of a person with a large beard. The portrait is on dark grey surface with cigarette stubs scattered around and a disposable coffee cup partially. as Moc visible at top right. The image is partially reflected below. WORKERS GALLERY 1 June to 31 August Poster design by Marc Davenant
Poster in pinks and white with white and black lettering headed Small Press Day Saturday 19th July. Drawn cartoon style image in pinks of a figure looking over their shoulder at the flying books and pencils behind them.
Alt Text: Mid blue, white and bright yellow poster for the Meet and Make Friends for those living with dementia and their family friends and carers. Two speech bubbles at the top contain the group's title & cartoon style drawings of heads and various creative activities. Two more speech bubbles below have the dates. Below that is the venue dates.
Poster in a classis comic page style with bright colours and cartoon icons including speech and thinking bubbles. The heading is Rhondda Drawn and Read in 3D style white drawing.
David standing next to two chairs holding a red ribbon that he has just cut from the chairs
A completed jigsaw of the coastal scene of whitby
Photo of a sculpture made of a central square block of wood with spears coming from it. The centre and parts of the spears have been blackened by fire. It sits in a wooded area on a sunny day.
Poster in blocks of bright yellow and cerise pink. Image at top is of an open book being held to obscure someone's face. There is an image to the right of the black and white front cover of a photobook called outsiders. It is if a misty park bench with a figure.
Poster with an off-white uneven textured background with Outsiders depicted in a black stencil design at top. Below is a photographic image depicting a head shot photo in grey scale of a person with a large beard. The portrait is on dark grey surface with cigarette stubs scattered around and a disposable coffee cup partially. as Moc visible at top right. The image is fel the latent and partially reflected below. WORKERS GALLERY 1 June to 31 August Poster design by Marc Davenant
Photo of a jigsaw of a painting of a coastal town with brown, white Nd cream red roofed houses. On the horizon is a church and ruin.
Photo of a completed jigsaw on a left to right downwards slant. The jigsaw image in a retro illustrd interior of a hairdressers.
Poster with an off-white uneven textured background with Outsiders depicted in a black stencil design at top. Below is a photographic image depicting a head shot photo in grey scale of a person with a large beard. The portrait is on dark grey surface with cigarette stubs scattered around and a disposable coffee cup partially. as Moc visible at top right. The image is fel the latent and partially reflected below. WORKERS GALLERY 1 June to 31 August Poster design by Marc Davenant
Chris with blonde short hair and a big smile as he puts on a large black and red rucksack over his light brown coat in a room painted mid green.
Poster in light turquoise and white with words Slow Sunday in white with black outline over a fading turquoise circle.
Gayle standing next to a big red bicycle in the gallery interior. She wears a light brown helmet and a red and blue ski type jacket.
Poster for Outsiders exhibition by Marc Davenant. It had a grey background and a central photograph which includes a surface with a portrait photo, cigarette stubs and half drunk takeaway coffees.
Poster in light turquoise and white with the words slow Sunday central on a fading out to white turquoise circle.
Yellow poster with cartoon drawn heads and creative actives drawn in mid blue. Activities include drinking tea, knitting, camera workshop, jigsaw puzzling, board games and painting.
Yellow poster with cartoon drawn heads and creative actives drawn in mud blue.
Comic strip showing a figure thinking and feeling that they are having a bad day but then they are at their football club - happily with others. By Gayle Rogers
Photographer David Hurn in front of the Workers Gallery shutter decorated with his photograph of Tylorstown in the 1970s. Image is of a terraced street with washing on lines as part of the Rhondda Heritage Trail.
Packs and leaflets of retro and replica posters, pamphlets & cards on a yellow and white dotty table cloth
Poster for Book Champions book club meet up on Wednesday 14th May 6.45-8.45pm The poster has a bright yellow column background on left and bright pink on the right. An open book being held to someone's face is under text at the top. A black and white portrait picture of David Mayne is at the bottom right. He wears a flat cap and large dark framed glasses and has a beard.