We are involved in lots of projects to support our members and the wider community. At the VC Gallery we offer a warm welcome, the chance to meet new people and take part in some of our community projects. Below are just some of our current projects that you can be a part of!
It's worth joining the time bank here on Connect Pembrokeshire - VC Gallery run some of their volunteering events through this and if you're registered, you can earn time credits for your efforts!
First you see and respond to a request like this:
And before you know it, you're having fun with friends like this:
If you’re from the Armed Forces Community, we would love to hear from you. Our latest project, ‘The Art of Memories’, is sponsored by The Armed Forces Covenant Fund and is designed to bring about an integration between; ex-Forces members, those still serving, and the community at large. ‘The Art of Memories’ project aims to collect stories from veterans living in Pembrokeshire and help transform them into works of art.
We want stories of action, stories of camaraderie, stories of families left behind. Funny stories—sad stories, and all shades in between. These stories will be recorded and used in our art and creative writing workshops and eventually published in a book of poems, which will form part of a Remembrance Tour in locations across Pembrokeshire.
If you’ve got a story to tell, get in touch for a chat with our Military Peer Mentor and become a part of The VC Gallery's latest project: ‘The Art of Memories’.
Get Creative with Nina
Welcome to The VC Gallery's Online Creative Workshops. You're a few clicks away from embarking on a fully interactive, virtual workshop specialising in art. These workshops are designed to fill a huge creativity gap in the arts. They will be run by award-winning artist, Nina Camplin. As well as providing you with an artistic outlet, these workshops are a means of combatting social isolation during these difficult times.
NINA CAMPLIN - ARTIST
Nina Camplin is a mural artist based in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, specialising in trompe l’oeil. She is interested in challenging perceptions of space and creating scenes of faked realities, such as windows, doors and broken walls that open up the flat surface of the wall to give the viewer the optical illusion of an additional dimension beyond. She has worked on many public art projects nationwide, receiving commissions from various Councils including Luton, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Southampton, Isle of Wight, Dorset, and Poole and has won 2 Design Awards for her subway murals in Luton. She has exhibited her paintings in many shows across the UK and her work varies from abstract to photorealistic, depending upon the current project she is working on. Most recently, she has been using recycled canvasses to work on, mixing the realistic with the abstract, allowing snippets of the original painting to show through in the final work.
These workshops are for everyone, but especially the digitally-excluded. So please, don't be put off by the virtual aspect of these ground-breaking workshops. If you're not the hottest online, we'll make sure you're able to take part by sending SOS Art boxes and by offering one-to-one telephone mentoring. We can't wait to see what you'll create. It's our hope that these workshops will give people the confidence to access The VC Gallery in the future in order to socialise and express themselves through art.
This project was made possible through funding from South Hook LNG and PAVS