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28/10/2026

Jack Moyse: A Sorry State 📉

Oriel Sploj, Machynlleth
Open today! Jack Moyse: A Sorry State

What happens when the welfare state fails the people who depend on it?

Come to Sploj to see A Sorry State by Jack Moyse. Open today and next Wednesday 4th November 10.00 – 15.00.

Tune in to Jack’s Radio Dyfi show today 17.00-18.00!

Photographs by Isaac Peat

A Sorry State explores the realities of navigating a broken welfare system in Wales, challenging the rhetoric that vilifies those who rely on state support.

Produced in collaboration with people with lived experience of disability, the project brings together photography, installation, sculpture and performance, translating their experiences of the welfare system into artwork.

A Sorry State is a project funded by the Welsh Arts Council, produced in collaboration with Menna Buss, Abby Poulson, GS Artists, 9to90 Creative Community, Oriel Sploj, Disability Arts Cymru and Ffotogallery.

🗓️ Open until 5 November 2026
📍 Unit 2, Bank Lane, Machynlleth, SY20 8EL

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Jack Moyse: A Sorry State📉

Oriel Sploj, Machynlleth
Yn agor heddiw! Jack Moyse: A Sorry State

Beth sy’n digwydd pan fo’r wladwriaeth les yn methu’r bobl sy’n dibynnu arni?

Dewch i Sploj i weld A Sorry State gan Jack Moyse. Ar agor heddiw ac eto ddydd Mercher nesaf, 4ydd Tachwedd, rhwng 10.00 a 15.00.

Gwrandewch ar raglen Jack ar Radio Dyfi heddiw rhwng 17.00 a 18.00!

Lluniau gan Isaac Peat

Mae A Sorry State yn archwilio realiti llywio system les sydd wedi torri yng Nghymru, gan herio’r rhethreg sy’n pardduo’r rhai sy’n dibynnu ar gymorth y wladwriaeth.

Wedi’i gynhyrchu ar y cyd â phobl sydd â phrofiad byw o anabledd, mae’r prosiect yn cyfuno ffotograffiaeth, gosodiadau, cerflunwaith a pherfformiad, gan drawsnewid eu profiadau o’r system les yn waith celf.

Mae A Sorry State yn brosiect a ariennir gan Gyngor Celfyddydau Cymru, a gynhyrchwyd mewn cydweithrediad â Menna Buss, Abby Poulson, GS Artists, 9to90 Creative Community, Oriel Sploj, Disability Arts Cymru a Ffotogallery.

🗓️ Ar agor tan 5 Tachwedd 2026
📍 Uned 2, Bank Lane, Machynlleth, SY20 8EL

26/10/2026

SALTMARSH
LOWRI HECKLER
12/11/26-06/12/26
Sploj is excited to present SALT MARSH, a solo exhibition by Lowri Heckler, opening 12 November, 6:30–9:30pm.

Three chains hang from burnt fence posts jutting out from the wall. Silver maple leaves, each bearing a message, are tied along their lengths. Their forms resemble throwing stars, or little hands held up in greeting or defence. Frozen petals gather among them. Helicopter seeds become spikes. Gifts, perhaps, or forms of protection. Beauty and violence are offered hand in hand.

A proverb is carried from mouth to mouth. A fable offers a lesson, often at a cost. Fairy tales promise transformation, but rarely without consequence. Their warnings survive long after the circumstances that produced them have disappeared.

Drawing on the Welsh landscape and the Otherworld of Annwn, SALT MARSH explores storytelling as a way of navigating an uncertain world. Here, fable and landscape meet in a place where the whimsical turns violent, and the beautiful becomes difficult to trust.

Mae Sploj yn falch o gyflwyno SALT MARSH, arddangosfa unigol gan Lowri Heckler, sy’n agor ar 12 Tachwedd, rhwng 6:30 a 9:30yh.

Mae tair cadwyn yn hongian o bolion ffensio wedi’u llosgi, sy’n ymwthio allan o’r wal. Mae dail masarn a***n, pob un â neges wedi’i hysgrifennu arno, wedi’u clymu ar hyd y cadwyni. Mae eu siâp yn dwyn i gof sêr, neu ddwylo bach wedi’u codi mewn cyfarchiad neu amddiffyniad. Ymgasglai petalau wedi rhewi yn eu plith. Mae hadau coed masarn, y rhai sy’n troelli fel hofrennydd, yn troi’n bigau. Rhoddion, efallai, neu ryw fath o amddiffyniad. Cyflwynir harddwch a thrais law yn llaw.

Mae diarhebion yn cael eu trosglwyddo ar lafar. Cyniga chwedl gwers i’w ddysgu, er yn aml mae yna bris i hynny. Addawa chwedlau trawsnewidiad, ond yn aml efo sgil effeithiau. Mae eu rhybuddion yn parhau ymhell ar ôl i’r amgylchiadau a’u creodd hen ddiflannu.

Gan dynnu ysbrydoliaeth o dirwedd Cymru a’r Arallfyd Annwn, mae SALT MARSH yn archwilio adrodd straeon fel ffordd o lywio byd ansicr. Yma, mae chwedl a thirwedd yn cyfarfod mewn man lle mae’r rhyfeddol yn troi’n dreisgar, a lle mae’n anodd ymddiried yn yr hyn sy’n hardd.

04/10/2026

A Sorry State gan Jack Moyse ⚖️

Diolch i bawb ddaeth i ymuno â ni ar gyfer yr agoriad.

Mae A Sorry State, mewn cydweithrediad â Ffoto Cymru , yn archwilio profiadau o lywio’r system les yng Nghymru drwy ffotograffiaeth, gosodwaith, cerflunwaith a pherfformiad.

Mae’r arddangosfa ar agor tan 29 Hydref 2026.

📍 Sploj, Uned 2, Bank Lane, Machynlleth, SY20 8EL

Byddem wrth ein bodd yn eich gweld 👓

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A Sorry State by Jack Moyse ⚖️

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening.

A Sorry State, in collaboration with ffotocymru, explores experiences of navigating the welfare system in Wales through photography, installation, sculpture and performance.

The exhibition is open until 29 October 2026.

📍 Sploj, Unit 2 Bank Lane, Machynlleth, SY20 8EL

We’d love to see you 👓

10/08/2026

Cielo (Trofannolismo)
Morag Colquhoun
15/08/26-19/08/26

Opening: Saturday 15th July, 2:00pm to 6:00pm

Please join us for our new exhibition Cielo (Trofannolismo) by Morag Colquhoun. Ceilo is a video installation exploring planetary connections and polyrhythmia through the ecologies of Ynys Enlli (Wales) and Salango (Ecuador). Films loop at different speeds, creating new juxtapositions, breaks and synchronicities. A pair of Manx shearwaters reunite in their burrow after migrating from South America to Enlli and whilst the underwater calls of ballenas (whales) echo back.

We will open the exhibition with a talk from 1400-1600, followed by the exhibition opening from 1600-1800. In the talk Morag Colquhoun will be joined by environmental archaeologist, Patricia Allan, marine biologist, May Platt (joining by video from Ecuador), and writer, Rebecca Ray.

Cielo (Trofannolismo)
Morag Colquhoun
15/08/26-19/08/26

Opening: Saturday 15th July, 2:00pm to 6:00pm
Dewch draw i weld ein harddangosfa newydd, Cielo (Trofannolismo) gan Morag Colquhoun. Mae Cielo yn osodiad fideo sy’n archwilio cysylltiadau rhwng gwahanol rannau o’r blaned, a’r rhythmau sy’n eu cysylltu, drwy ecolegau Ynys Enlli a Salango yn Ecwador. Mae’r ffilmiau’n chwarae ar wahanol gyflymderau, gan greu cyfuniadau, toriadau a chydamseriadau newydd Mae pâr o adar drycin Manaw yn ailuno yn eu nyth ar ôl mudo o Dde America i Enlli, tra bod galwadau tanddwr y morfilod yn atsain.
Byddwn yn dechrau gyda sgwrs rhwng 2–4yp, ac yna agoriad yr arddangosfa rhwng 4–6yp. Yn y sgwrs, bydd Morag yn ymuno â’r archeolegydd amgylcheddol Patricia Allan, y biolegydd morol May Platt (yn ymuno drwy fideo o Ecwador), a’r awdur Rebecca Ray.
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Unit 2 Bank Lane SY20 8BQ

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Important! Tomorrow, Tuesday 14 July at 12.00, is your last chance to see Effi o Blaenau. Due to an error, this screening is not listed in the printed programme.

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We’d also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who came to watch the film. We had a great turnout for all our screenings, and we’re so pleased to see this Welsh-language film receiving so much positive recognition everywhere, not just at the Lantern.

Thank you for supporting Welsh cinema!