A DEATH Valley ghost town called Swansea will soon be celebrated in the city centre.
A DEATH Valley ghost town called Swansea will soon be celebrated in the city centre.
An artist called Graham Dolphin, as part of the Art Across the City project, has recreated a stone monument that’s sited at the former mining frontier town in the heart of the Californian desert.
The recreated monument will be located at the bottom of the ramp outside the Civic Centre on Oystermouth Road.
As part of the project, artists have also been working with schoolchildren to make hand-painted signposts pointing the way to other towns and cites across the world called Swansea. The signposts will be put up close to the recreated memorial.
Towns and cities also called Swansea can be found in Canada, Australia, America, Jamaica, and Cuba. Most have connections to the emigration of miners.
The former Californian town of Swansea was once a boomtown for mining and the smelting of silver in the 1860s and 1870s.
Art Across the City is run by Locws International. These installations are among many that will be popping up across Swansea from Saturday March 21 until June 1.
Cllr Robert Francis-Davies, Swansea Council’s Cabinet Member for Enterprise, Development and Regeneration, said: “Public art makes a big contribution to the individuality of cities and helps generate a sense of place that encourages people to explore.
“What’s being done as part of the Art Across the Swansea project this year is terrific because it will encourage people to read more about other towns and cities called Swansea across the world. It’ll be a fun and educational project that’s sure to capture people’s attention.
“We’re delighted to have played our part this year by helping arrange the location of several artworks in and around the Civic Centre. It’s projects like this that cement Swansea’s status as a leading city of culture”
Also planned for the Civic Centre’s foyer area are hanging balloons that will celebrate the building’s social and architectural significance
Have a look at www.locwsinternational.com for more information on everything being planned.
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