Owain Train McGilvary
2025
(images coming soon)
£15
Buy here
127 x 162mm, 78 pages, Colour printing, Risograph & letter press covers, 2025
Charting McGilvary’s research over the past four years into The Threes Crowns, north Wales’ only gar bar which closed due to an arson attack in 2014, Coronau includes drawings, collages and filmstills by McGilvary, as well as texts by Adrian Howard and Marcus Jack.
Published in conjunction with Batman!, an exhibition of new paintings by Owain Train McGilvary at 20 Albert Road programmed by Lunchtime.
Owain Train McGilvary is an artist from Ynys Môn. He usually works with artist’s video, drawing, collage and painting. His projects pay particularly close attention to cross-disciplinary collaborations and reconfiguring existing archives. Previously he has worked with wrestlers, drag artists, musicians, writers and other visual artists to create multimedia, multilingual and multi-imaginative works.
Recent exhibitions include I’m attended as a portal myself with Bobbi Cameron for Glasgow International, Seeing Red at Pontio Arts Centre and Fel gwacter with Dylan Huw at Mostyn Gallery (all in 2024). In 2022-2023 he was a Wales Venice 10 Fellow supported by Arts Council Wales, Artes Mundi and DAC. He holds an MFA from The Glasgow School of Art and a BA(Hons) in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins. Between September - December he will undertake the Creative Wales Fellowship at The British School at Rome, looking to compare the comic book world of RanXerox with Giorgio De Chirico’s metaphysical paintings.