"Look closer. You find an enchantment, an abdication
of metropolitan fret and status-struggle in favour of a leisurely logging of
elements; a landscape that is out of time, unresolved. In transition. Memorials
of discontinued industries. New money spent on new things. Hillsides learning
to disguise their wounds."
Iain Sinclair from his introduction to The
Valleys, with Anthony Stokes 2007, Seren, ISBN 978-1-85411-444-0
Publications
The
Valleys/Anthony Stokes, with an introduction by Iain Sinclair pub. Seren,
Bridgend, 2007
ISBN 978-1-85411-444-0
Exhibitions
2007-09
The
Valleys (with financial assistance of Arts Council of Wales)
2007
Cynon
Valley Museum & Gallery, Aberdare.
Oriel
y Bont, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd.
St David’s
Hall, Cardiff.
2008
National Library
of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Grand Pavilion,
Porthcawl.
2009
(projected) National
Museum of Wales (National Waterfront Museum, Swansea)
Group
Exhibitions
2008
Welsh
Artist of the Year 2008, St David’s Hall, Cardiff, (Photography
Award) 22.6.08 - 26.7.08 (catalogue)
Y Lle Celf (Visual
Arts Pavilion) National Eisteddfod of Wales, Cardiff 2-9.8.08 (catalogue)
Bibliography/Reviews
‘The Valleys
Anthony Stokes’ Ashley Davies. Buzz. April 2007
Gwales Review
Jane MacNamee gwales.com Spring 2007 ‘Pictures from the valley -
now showing at a bookshop near you.’ Dave Edwards. Rhondda Leader.
26.4.07
‘Is Bridgend
a place to be proud of?’ Steffan Rhys. Glamorgan Gazette. 3.5.07
‘Valleys
Views: where life is peachy.’ ed. Hannah Jones. Western Mail magazine.
5.5.07
‘The Valleys
Anthony Stokes’ Ben Brain. Amateur Photographer. 12.5.07
‘The Valleys
Anthony Stokes’ Steve Lindenburn (news video recording) BBC Wales.
Wales Today. BBC1 2.7.07
