Welsh Language Tour & Workshop: Sawangwongse Yawnghwe

Friday, 12 December 2025

Aberystwyth Arts Centre

Free

Past

1 large painting with a monochrome painting of an old photograph of a woman surrounded by colourful geometric patterns. Next to it is a series of 11 still life paintings of poppies. Artworks by Dark blue walls with several small wooden shelves each with a yellow wax cast of an object on them. small poems written in white scattered on the walls. Two large circular tables with more wax casts. Artworks by Sawangwongse Yawnghwe. — Sawangwongse Yawnghwe, Installation view at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Artes Mundi 11, 2025-26. Photography - Rolant Dafis

Join us in Gallery 1 for a tour & workshop exploring Sawangwongse Yawnghwe’s work, led by Artes Mundi Engagement Producer, Elena Blackmore.

Sawangwongse Yawnghwe is a Burmese artist whose work deeply engages with the complex history of Myanmar, his family’s exile, and the experiences of ethnic minorities, particularly the Shan. Through painting, he reconstructs historical and personal narratives, and family archive to explore themes of displacement and identity.

In a creative workshop, we will then explore how visual forms can reproduce and compete with these stories and visualise contestation using colour. Combining traditional drawing techniques with the abstraction.

If you would like to request any access support or to contact us with any questions, please email abby.poulson@artesmundi.org

This tour and workshop will be delivered will be led through the medium of Welsh. To join an English Language tour & Workshop please see our other events.

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