A TENBY builder will be giving his opinions of modern art in a new television programme 'On Show: Artes Mundi - Your Say' (this Sunday, April 4, BBC One Wales).
Dai Jones, who is a passionate surfer in his spare time, has been invited to have his thoughts on the first ever Artes Mundi exhibition in Cardiff captured on camera. In the programme he explains what he thinks of the pieces, which include hanging sculptures of body parts, dreamlike underwater films and an 11-metre vinyl wallscape.
"You know, I live in a very beautiful part of Wales within the Pembrokeshire National Park, and I spend a lot of my free time surfing on the beach, but I think the galleries and exhibition spaces are the National Parks, they're the zoos, they're the sanctuaries of human nature, the human condition," said Dai.
"You can spend a few hours walking around a gallery and you'll find the wildflowers of human creativity, from the wild orchids of human spirit to give vistas of human emotion, and it's a shame that not enough people are getting involved in museums.
"I think it's excellent that Cardiff is showcasing work of this type - contemporary and international art - so that people can go along and be challenged by it, see new things and learn from it maybe."
'On Show: Artes Mundi - Your Say', can be seen this Sunday on BBC One Wales at 11.15 pm and on Monday BBC2W at 9 pm.