{"id":31378,"date":"2016-10-30T20:14:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T20:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=31378"},"modified":"2016-10-30T20:14:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T20:14:11","slug":"voxpop-how-important-is-art-in-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2016\/10\/30\/voxpop-how-important-is-art-in-cardiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Voxpop: Art in Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UK\u2019s biggest\u00a0art award returns to Cardiff this year with six artists competing to take home the \u00a340,000 prize.<\/p>\n

Artes Mundi<\/a> is a competition with an international focus. There is no restriction for entry but in order to progress artists must engage with the human condition, often tackling global social issues through forms of contemporary visual art.<\/p>\n

\"National

Making Cardiff its home since 2004, this exhibition is the largest of its kind in the UK, offering greater reward than even the Turner Prize. Jane Hughes-Wynn, who works with Artes Mundi, says, \u201cThere has been much comment in the past about media and culture being very London-centric, Artes Mundi and organisations like it help to show that culture can and is succeeding across the UK.\u201d Evidently it is particularly strong\u00a0within the cultural community found in Cardiff.<\/p>\n

Building on this Iwan Llwyd, from Arts Council Wales<\/a> who provide some funding\u00a0 for this exhibition, makes clear that now is precisely the time to be supporting the arts as Artes Mundi makes real and practical contributions to the economic, social and cultural life of Wales.<\/p>\n

\"John

Artes Mundi are determined to see people engage with contemporary art and so over the course of the exhibition, from 21 October<\/a>, there will be opportunities to get involved with\u00a0tours, creative sessions and family workshops. Also working on a project exploring regeneration\u00a0in post-industrial South Wales valleys, the team behind this prize aim to empower the disempowered through art within communities.<\/p>\n

\"Bedwyr

Making this year\u2019s shortlist are artists from across the globe, including welsh multimedia artist Bedwyr Williams<\/a>, Ghanian born filmmaker John Akomfrah<\/a> and award-winning French-Algerian artist Neil Beloufa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Ne\u00efl

With the prominence of this prize in mind, and figures from Art Council Wales indicating that 78.6% of adults attend at least one arts event annually, we took the streets to see how important art really is in Cardiff.<\/p>\n