{"id":321168,"date":"2025-12-01T19:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/321168\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T19:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:38:08","slug":"national-gallery-unveils-art-to-celebrate-gwynedd-quarrys-wartime-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/321168\/","title":{"rendered":"National Gallery unveils art to celebrate Gwynedd quarry&#8217;s wartime role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sir Gabriele Finaldi, director of the National Gallery, said the tablet served as a reminder of the crucial moment &#8220;the nation&#8217;s paintings were secreted in caves in the slate hills of north Wales to preserve them for future generations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Kath Davies, of Amgueddfa Cymru, described it as a  &#8220;fantastic&#8221; project commemorating an important historic event which also preserved &#8220;traditional Welsh craft and heritage&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Conceived by artist Jeremy Deller and designed and carved by John Neilson, the tablet was commissioned by Mostyn gallery, Llandudno, and supported by the National Contemporary Art Gallery for Wales (CELF).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Manod Slate Tablet will be on permanent display in the Portico Vestibule of the National Gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Gabriele Finaldi, director of the National Gallery, said the tablet served as a reminder of the crucial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-321168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}