reply to d.jones - (read it here)

DIOLCH yn fawr mr jones for taking the time to visit the show... i sense that you didn't understand the work there but that is not your fault.. being trained at the rca and even announcing an ma after your name says more about your interpretation of the public and society.. you may find others are impressed by these initials but as with politicians they may have been well educated but that doesn't guarantee anything....
you dig a very big hole for yourself though because what I am involved in and perhaps others see in the work is the best of western art combined with the mixture of myself.... original new work have always found its perception hard to take in so don't feel to bad about it... lets say time will be my judge...... its also a shame that you use swaveing statements in reference to other artists work instead of giving an actual point, perhaps a fact that you have discovered about their work?.. or do all your knowledge come from books and other peoples views..... there were lots of answers there but you didn't have any questions.. you put a lot of essence on to the titles yet these are used buy me as first a form of reference for myself and second to get up the noses of others, so that proved a success, i suppose... titles are not important in any work.... anybody reading your essay would perhaps be unable to judge what you know about art and what if anything you have discovered.... why you should have a go at the gallery though is perhaps just weird..... maggie knight director there would consider you work as she shows a vast amount of artists there very quickly, and she does it very efficiently and with contemporary feel... couple of years ago I successfully listed a local telephone box as neaths new contemporary art gallery, if you had turned up to one if its fictitious exhibitions would you have realised that it was just a phone box?.... as for other points to do with art in wales well welsh art is shit haven't you noticed? there is absolutely nothing of interest going on in the visual arts, except for myself... too many people call themselves artists and exhibitions have always got this intellectually written crutch supporting it... it seems to me that most creative people have gone into other forms like film, architecture, music and fetish design... I hope that what i'm doing in wales now will have an effect on the new generations coming through and the feed back that I get is that this could be happening.... try not to think to much when you are writing.... if you would like to find out more about the work that i've helped do then some articles i've written and worth reading would be 'one wales' magazine oct/nov 01 issue two (it has pictures) and golwg oct 14 01/ 14 02 magazine.... one article is written about the will roberts retrospect that was at the museum of wales and in writing about this work I tried to get inside his mind and bring to the reader's attention an aspect of the show that would explore the paintings... next time you attend another one of our shows attack it as if you are a columbo, try and uncover something hidden, missed by most and very importantly the motive?

neale howells is preparing large work for the phoenix gallery in brighton June 2003

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