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We are launching a new interactive online arts magazine called Cynfas in October 2020. It aims to engage diverse voices in conversation around the national Art Collection at Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales, and encourage rich debate about visual cultures in Wales. It will provide a platform for debate and discussion which will inform the development of the online experience of visual art at Amgueddfa Cymru, as well as its exhibition programmes.

Monthly editions of this new online magazine will feature articles or online art projects produced by people across Wales, in both written and digital formats. Authors and contributors will include: artists, young people, educators, academics, writers and partner organisations.

Get involved

We are inviting people from all across Wales to contribute feature articles (up to 2000 words) or online arts projects or interventions for our thematic monthly editions. Contributions are invited in any media that can be hosted on the web platform, including video and sound and embedded media. 

Our second edition will focus on Visual Culture and Health.

• Is there a role for visual culture in people’s health and wellbeing?
• How does visual culture reflect individual lived experience?
• How can visual culture contribute to an expanded vision of health and wellbeing, which might include representation and agency?
• How might we use visual culture to challenge or develop thinking?

We are looking for submissions that address one or more of the following:

1) brave and engaging content which reflects the rich history and diverse practice of visual culture in Wales

2) responds to work in the Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales Collection

3) explores the role of art and artists in bringing about change

4) exemplifies personal and lived experience

5) suggests how education can address and reflect ongoing conversations in this area

6) considers how the future can be reimagined

Please feel free to make reference to artwork on Amgueddfa Cymru Collections Online, or other visual art content that you have permission to reproduce.

You do not have to be an art critic to apply. We are equally interested in voices of lived experience and those approaching visual culture from a different angle, such as disability, social justice, health, etc. We welcome applications and submissions in Welsh and English.

The deadline for proposals has now been extended to 25 September 2020.

NB: This should be an original piece of work which hasn’t been published previously.

The application process:

• Submit a 200 word summary of your proposed article or project synopsis to Lara.Davies@museumwales.ac.uk
• Include your name, home address, contact details and a brief paragraph about yourself
• A mixed panel will review these summaries within 10 days and decide which ones to take forward
• Successful applicants will be paid (£250) for their contribution

If you are thinking of submitting a proposal and have further questions please contact: angela.maddock@mac.com