Exhibition: Be our Guest, Oriel Davies, Newtown.

Thirty artists selected to re-visit and challenge the expected norms, attributes and desires normally associated with the notion of the traditional Bed & Breakfast.

I explored the concept of the comforting full morning breakfast, juxtaposed with the images revealed as the plate is cleared. The Welsh Dresser’s role as the repository of family history and pride is revisited.

Extract from a Review of Be Our Guest By Ellen Bell, the Artists’ Newsletter Review

At a distance Sian Hughes’ Dresser Plates & Bowls, 2013 appear tranquil in their blue & white correctness, but look closer and each one holds in its centre an open mouth – a silent screaming orifice regurgitating faded images of Victorian figures, seagulls and windows