Lansiad Llyfr / Book Launch - John Byrne: Useful Art

Fri Mar 06 2026 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm UTC+00:00

Tŷ Pawb | Wrexham

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Lansiad Llyfr \/ Book Launch - John Byrne: Useful Art
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Digwyddiad lansio yn cynnwys sgwrs gyda'r awdur / Launch event including an In Conversation with the author
About this Event

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Mae'r llyfr clyfar, pryfoclyd hwn yn datgelu sut mae Celf Ddefnyddiol yn newid y byd.

A oes rhaid i gelf fod yn brydferth? Beth os gall fod yn ddefnyddiol yn lle hynny? Yn y llyfr arloesol hwn, mae John Byrne yn dangos sut mae'r cysyniad o 'Gelf Ddefnyddiol' yn helpu artistiaid a chymunedau i ymladd yn ôl yn erbyn y meddiannaeth neo-ryddfrydol o'n mannau, gwasanaethau a bywydau.

Mae Byrne yn dangos y gall rhwydweithiau o actifiaeth dan arweiniad artistiaid a gweithredu uniongyrchol yn y gymuned ddarparu llyfr chwarae cydweithredol o ddewisiadau amgen effeithiol a chynhwysol. O brosiectau adfywio trefol sydd wedi ennill Gwobr Turner i fecws, gerddi llysiau a mannau celfyddydau aml-ddefnydd, mae gan Gelf Ddefnyddiol botensial enfawr i ddod â phobl ynghyd, adfer a chadw sgiliau a gwybodaeth leol ac adennill ymdrech artistig er lles y byd go iawn.

Gan archwilio detholiad rhyngwladol o brosiectau, arddangosfeydd ac actifiaeth, mae'r gwaith newydd pwysig hwn yn hyrwyddo'r newid o estheteg i werth defnydd, gan herio ffyrdd traddodiadol o weld y byd yn symbolaidd trwy gelf. Gan gyrraedd y tu hwnt i resymeg ariannol y byd celf, mae Byrne yn dangos sut y gall Celf Ddefnyddiol gynnig pecyn cymorth artistig ar gyfer gweithredu newid radical.

Bydd y digwyddiad lansio am ddim hwn yn cynnwys Sgwrs rhwng John a Chyfarwyddwr Creadigol Tŷ Pawb, Jo Marsh, am y llyfr, y daith a arweiniodd John at ei ysgrifennu, ac am rai o'r enghreifftiau ynddo.

Darperir lluniaeth ysgafn ac mae'r digwyddiad am ddim i fynychu, a bydd y llyfr ar werth ar y noson.

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This smart, provocative book reveals how Useful Art is changing the world.

Does art have to be beautiful? What if it can be useful instead? In this cutting-edge book, John Byrne shows how the concept of 'Useful Art' is helping artists and communities fight back against the neoliberal takeover of our spaces, services and lives.

Byrne demonstrates that networks of artist-led activism and community-based direct action can provide a collaborative playbook of impactful and inclusive alternatives. From Turner Prize-winning urban regeneration projects to bakeries, vegetable gardens and multi-use arts spaces, Useful Art has enormous potential for bringing people together, recovering and preserving local skills and knowledge and reclaiming artistic endeavour for real-world good.

Exploring an international selection of projects, exhibitions and activism, this important new work champions the shift from aesthetics to use value, challenging traditional ways of seeing the world symbolically through art. Reaching beyond the financial logic of the art world, Byrne shows how Useful Art can offer an artistic toolkit for implementing radical change.

This free launch event will include an In Conversation between John and Tŷ Pawb Creative Director Jo Marsh about the book, the journey that led John to writing it, and about some of the examples within it.

Light refreshments provided and the event is free to attend, and the book will be on sale on the night.

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Tŷ Pawb, Market Street, Wrexham, United Kingdom

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