Call For Artists
Helfa Gelf / Art Trail is looking for participants for this year’s open studio event and would love to hear from artists and crafts people across the region. This is an amazing opportunity for artists to get their work seen by both the local community and visitors to the region.
Helfa Gelf /Art Trail takes place in Gwynedd, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham counties. We invite the public to visit artists at work in their studios and it is a chance for visitors to experience this normally hidden world and get to chat to the artists and crafts people about their creative process.
In addition to the Open Studios, curated exhibitions of work will be held in a number of venues across North Wales throughout the year. As a member of Helfa Gelf your work is also featured in our catalogue and you have your own updatable page on our website onto which you can upload an on-line gallery.
This project has received funding through the Rural Development Plan for Wales 2007-2013 which is funded by the Welsh Assembly Government and the European Agricultural fund for Rural Development. Thanks to this money we are able to work with a PR agency this year to increase the profile of the event and the artists involved.
We will also be running lots of free professional development workshops to help artists develop their practice. Our training program has been put together after consultation with the artists and caters specifically to their needs. Workshops included are: digital photography, social media for marketing, creating your own publicity materials, creating a film of your studio to upload onto Facebook, press, publicity and marketing and seminars by a series of established artists and curators.
Helfa Gelf covers a wide range of the visual and applied arts, including painting and sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, jewellery making, basket weaving, woodcarving and photography. It is an exciting opportunity for the public to not only see where and how the artists work but to buy direct from the makers.
The seventh annual open studio event for local artists will be held 7-9, 14-16,21-23,29-30 September 2012.
For further information on how to apply visit our web site at www.helfagelf.co.uk. or e-mail info@helfagelf.co.uk
Applications Surgeries
Helfa Gelf /Art trail on line application form is now live!
We realize that some of you may find it difficult to fill the form in without help, so we have organised two application surgeries, where you can have one on one support from our website designer to fill in the form and upload your images and CV.So let us take away the headache of on-line application!
To Book a place please e-mail Sabine@helfagelf.co.uk
Hurry as places are limited!
Surgeries will be held from 10am-3pm on 3 February and 24 February at Glasdir, Plas yn Dref, Llanrwst, LL26 0DF, UK
No Suitable Place?
This year we are offering a studio bursary for artists interested in hiring temporary studio space so they can be part of Helfa Gelf. If you have a space in mind, know it is available, but want help to cover the costs, please send us a proposal by Monday the 27th of February .To download a proposal form, please go to our website www.helfagelf.co.uk and click on the red star “-2012- APPLY ONLINE!”
Fill in and send by e-mail to sabine@helfagelf.co.uk
Or by post to:
Helfa Gelf /Art Trail
PO Box 206
Penmaenmawr
LL30 9FP
If there’s anyone still looking for a studio space to rent during the Helfa Gelf month we have 4 spaces available at Parc Glynllifon near Caernarfon. Each space is £125 for the month and you could apply for the bursary to pay for it (Deadline 27-02-12). There will be 5 other resident artists open there as part of the trail, so a great little hub of creativity! Please e-mail iard@live.co.uk or phone 01286 830839/ 07786567129 if you’re interested.