Chapter Gallery

Chapter Gallery An international art space that commissions and presents contemporary exhibitions. Free entry. Entrance to Chapter Gallery is always FREE.

We offer a programme of exhibitions, residencies, commissions and events by established Welsh and international artists. Due to COVID-19, capacity in the gallery is limited to 10 people. To be kept up to date with future plans, exhibitions and events please visit our website where you can also sign up to our regular e-newsletter www.chapter.org

Take a peek behind the scenes of Lu’s studio. Acquisition Ongoing: Carbon Age Souvenirs is a “gift shop” of the future w...
17/06/2026

Take a peek behind the scenes of Lu’s studio.

Acquisition Ongoing: Carbon Age Souvenirs is a “gift shop” of the future where objects and prints are reimagined as cultural artifacts of speculative fiction.

Adorning our café bar walls until 29 August.

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Cymerwch gipolwg tu ôl i’r llen yn stiwdio Lu.

“Siop roddion” y dyfodol lle mae gwrthrychau a phrintiau yn cael eu hail-ddychmygu fel arteffactau diwylliannol ffuglen ddyfaliadol.

Yn addurno waliau ein caffi bar tan 29 Awst.

Join us for the opening of COMMS FAIL by artist writer and performer, Roy Claire Potter on Friday 26 June, 6-8pm.Develop...
15/06/2026

Join us for the opening of COMMS FAIL by artist writer and performer, Roy Claire Potter on Friday 26 June, 6-8pm.

Developed with fellow autistic artists, radio astronomers and musicians, COMMS FAIL combines research on solar flares and electromagnetic pulse weapons with the shortwave radio’s place in dystopian fiction, moving across performance, radio, exhibition and publication.

Step into a narrative artwork about communications failure, electromagnetised bodies, and what connection looks like after catastrophe.

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Ymuno â ni ar gyfer agoriad COMMS FAIL gan awdur-artist a pherfformiwr, Roy Claire Potter ar nos Wener 26 Mehefin, 6-8pm.

Wedi’i ddatblygu gyda chyd-artistiaid awtistig, seryddwyr radio a cherddorion, mae COMMS FAIL yn cyfuno ymchwil ar fflachiadau solar ac arfau pwls electromagnetig gyda lle’r radio tonfedd fer mewn ffuglen ddystopaidd, gan symud ar draws perfformiadau, radio, arddangosfeydd a chyhoeddi.

Camwch i mewn i waith celf naratif am fethiant cyfathrebu, cyrff electromagnetig, a sut olwg sydd ar gysylltiad ar ôl trychineb.

Thank you to everyone who joined us to make magnets, design zines and get temporary tattoos!   Williams café installatio...
04/06/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us to make magnets, design zines and get temporary tattoos!  

Williams café installation Acquisition Ongoing: Carbon Age Souvenirs continues until 29 August. Come and play. 🎀

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Diolch i bawb sydd wedi ymuno â ni i wneud magnetau, dylunio cylchgronau a chael tatŵs dros dro!

Mae gosodwaith caffi Lu Williams, Acquisition Ongoing: Carbon Age Souvenirs yn parhau tan 29 Awst. Dewch i chwarae.🎀

It’s your last chance to see the works of Imogen Stidworthy: In a thread of airThrough installation and film, Imogen exp...
28/05/2026

It’s your last chance to see the works of Imogen Stidworthy: In a thread of air

Through installation and film, Imogen explores what it means to have a voice, and what it means to listen, inviting us to engage with communication beyond words, through gesture, rhythm and atmosphere.

Visit the exhibition from Tuesday – Sunday, 12–5pm until 7 June.
🔗 Find out more via link in our bio

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Dyma’ch cyfle olaf i weld gwaith Imogen Stidworthy: In a thread of air

Drwy osodwaith a ffilm, mae Imogen yn archwilio beth yw ystyr bod â llais, a beth yw ystyr gwrando, gan ein gwahodd ni i edrych ar gyfathrebu y tu hwnt i eiriau, drwy ystum, rhythm ac awyrgylch. 

Ar agor Mawrth-Sul, 12-5yh, tan 7 Mehefin.

🔗 Mwy o wybodaeth am yr arddangosfa drwy’r ddolen yn ein bio

It’s your last chance to see the works of Imogen Stidworthy: In a thread of airThrough installation and film, Imogen exp...
28/05/2026

It’s your last chance to see the works of Imogen Stidworthy: In a thread of air

Through installation and film, Imogen explores what it means to have a voice, and what it means to listen, inviting us to engage with communication beyond words, through gesture, rhythm and atmosphere.

Visit the exhibition from Tuesday – Sunday, 12–5pm until 7 June.
🔗 Find out more via link in our bio

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Dyma’ch cyfle olaf i weld gwaith Imogen Stidworthy: In a thread of air

Drwy osodwaith a ffilm, mae Imogen yn archwilio beth yw ystyr bod â llais, a beth yw ystyr gwrando, gan ein gwahodd ni i edrych ar gyfathrebu y tu hwnt i eiriau, drwy ystum, rhythm ac awyrgylch. 

Ar agor Mawrth-Sul, 12-5yh, tan 7 Mehefin.

🔗 Mwy o wybodaeth am yr arddangosfa drwy’r ddolen yn ein bio

26/05/2026

Take a peek behind the scenes of Lu Williams’ studio 👀

Join us for the opening celebration of Acquisition Ongoing: Carbon Age Souvenirs on Friday 29 May from 6–8pm. Free to drop in!

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Cymerwch gipolwg tu ôl i’r llen yn stiwdio Lu Williams 👀

Ymunwch â ni yn y dathliad agoriadol i Acquisition Ongoing: Carbon Age Souvenirs nos Wener 29 Mai 6–8pm. Galwch heibio am ddim!

It’s your last chance to see Nina Thomas’ work in our café bar.In The Broken Speaker, Nina works with captioning and sil...
12/05/2026

It’s your last chance to see Nina Thomas’ work in our café bar.

In The Broken Speaker, Nina works with captioning and silent film as her medium to explore speech, voice and silence, situating these within Deaf and disabled historical contexts.

Throughout the work, she expands captioning both within and beyond the frame; you will see the captions move onto the café bar walls here at Chapter. She’s deliberately chosen to caption breath and hesitation – elements often omitted in traditional captioning – rather than treated as a failure of communication, here they become meaningful in their own right. Breath occupies the space between us. Nina turns toward instances of uncertainty and interdependence in her work, and searches for moments of shared understanding.

About the artist

Nina Thomas is an artist; her work often explores captioning as a creative medium. Nina is profoundly deaf and has worked for many years to advocate for change in the cultural sector, working with cultural venues to improve accessibility. She was a trustee of the charity Stagetext, a founding member of The Film Bunch (a deaf and hard-of-hearing film organisation). As an artist, Nina has exhibited at venues such as LUX, British Ceramics Biennial, The Crypt Gallery (NW1), Liberty Festival 2022, Tate Exchange (Tate Modern, London) and OVADA (Oxford).

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Dyma’ch cyfle olaf i weld gwaith Nina Thomas yn ein caffi bar.

Yn The Broken Speaker, mae Nina’n gweithio gyda chapsiynau a ffilmiau mud fel ei chyfrwng i archwilio lleferydd, llais a thawelwch, gan osod y rhain mewn cyd-destunau hanesyddol Byddar ac anabl.

Drwy ei gwaith, mae’n ehangu capsiynau yn y ffrâm a’r tu hwnt iddi; byddwch yn gweld y capsiynau’n symud i waliau’r caffi bar yma yn Chapter. Mae hi wedi dewis capsiynu anadlu ac oedi yn bwrpasol – elfennau sy’n aml yn cael eu gadael o gapsiynau traddodiadol – yn hytrach na’u trin fel methiant cyfathrebu, yma maen nhw’n dod yn ystyrlon yn eu rhinwedd eu hunain. Anadl yn llenwi’r gofod rhyngon ni. Mae Nina yn rhoi sylw i ansicrwydd a rhyngddibyniaeth yn ei gwaith, ac yn chwilio am eiliadau o gyd-ddealltwriaeth.

COMMS FAIL by Roy Claire Potter is a new sound installation in our gallery from 27 June – 1 August.Shaped by an autistic...
07/05/2026

COMMS FAIL by Roy Claire Potter is a new sound installation in our gallery from 27 June – 1 August.

Shaped by an autistic approach to communication, where meaning is not only carried by words but through pattern, rhythm, texture and environment. Sound moves through objects, surfaces and bodies.

COMMS FAIL is an evolving project moving across performance, radio, exhibition and publication, with each version building from the last. This iteration extends a live performance first staged in Liverpool and broadcast on Resonance FM, into a month-long listening environment.

Roy is an artist writer whose practice spans experimental writing, vocal performance, drawing, sound art and installation. Their work explores communication constraints, subtext and complex group dynamics – often with a wilful humour.

COMMS FAIL is a Partner Award 2025 commission with , made possible by Arts Council England ().

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Gosodwaith sain newydd gan Roy Claire Potter yw COMMS FAIL a fydd yn yr oriel rhwng 27 Mehefin ac 1 Awst.

Mae wedi’i lywio gan ddull awtistig o gyfathrebu, lle nad geiriau yn unig sy’n cario ystyr ond patrwm, rhythm, gwead ac amgylchedd. Mae sain yn symud drwy wrthrychau, arwynebau a chyrff.

Mae COMMS FAIL yn brosiect esblygol, gan symud ar draws perfformiadau, radio, arddangosfeydd a chyhoeddi, gyda phob fersiwn yn adeiladu ar y diwethaf. Mae’r cam yma’n ehangu ar berfformiad byw a lwyfannwyd am y tro cyntaf yn Lerpwl ac a ddarlledwyd ar Resonance FM, mewn amgylchedd gwrando dros gyfnod o fis.

Artist ac awdur yw Roy, y mae eu gwaith yn cynnwys ysgrifennu arbrofol, perfformiadau lleisiol, arlunio, celf sain a gosodwaith. Mae eu gwaith yn archwilio cyfyngiadau cyfathrebu, is-destun, a deinameg grŵp cymhleth – yn aml â hiwmor bwriadol.

Mae COMMS FAIL yn waith comisiwn Gwobr Partner 2025 gyda Gŵyl Ddwyflynyddol Lerpwl, a wnaed yn bosib diolch i Gyngor Celfyddydau Lloegr ().

28/04/2026

“There is a relationship for me and those materials between the fragility of language, the fragility of bodies, and also the fragility of the ecological system.”

Imogen Stidworthy: STILL LIFE BABEL exhibited as part of In a thread of air.

Chapter Gallery is open Tuesday-Sunday 12,5pm.

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Imogen Stidworthy: STILL LIFE BABEL esy’n cael ei arddangos fel rhan o In a thread of air.

Mae Orial Chapter ar agor ddydd Mawrth - sul 12-5yh.

Join us to celebrate the opening of Imogen Stidworthy: In a thread of air, this Saturday from 4–7pm.Imogen’s moving imag...
19/03/2026

Join us to celebrate the opening of Imogen Stidworthy: In a thread of air, this Saturday from 4–7pm.

Imogen’s moving image and installation form a sonic-somatic landscape of voicing, shaped by people who experience different ways of being.

Everyone is welcome.

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In a thread of air is supported by principal funder , , and .
AV and installation by Exhibition Services.

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Ymunwch â ni i ddathlu agoriad o Imogen Stidworthy: In a thread of air, ddydd Sadwrn 21 Mawrth, 4–7pm.

Mae gosodwaith a delwedd symudol Imogen yn ffurfio tirlun sonig-somatig o leisio, wedi’i siapio gan bobl sy’n profi gwahanol ffyrdd o fod.

Mae croeso i bawb.

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Cefnogir In a thread of air gan Ymddiriedolaeth Elusennol Colwinston, Sefydliad Freelands, Cyngor Celfyddydau Lloegr a Phrifysgol John Moores Lerpwl.
Cymorth ychwanegol gan Spike Island Exhibition Services.

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Tuesday 11am - 5pm
Wednesday 11am - 5pm
Thursday 11am - 5pm
Friday 11am - 5pm
Saturday 11am - 5pm
Sunday 11am - 5pm

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