Two exhibitions of work by past and current Criw Celf participants are set to take place at Oriel Davies Gallery in Newtown this month.

The exhibitions will be officially opened by Louise Wright of The Arts Council of Wales, on Saturday, March 9 at 3.15, in a special event with the young artists, their families and friends.

The artworks in Mobile Tales were created by 35 members of the Criw Celf project, in workshops with poet, artist and comic maker Nicky Arscott who lives and works in Llanbrynmair.

The workshops involved working with sequential images to tell a story or express an idea on the theme 'Citizens of the World'. They worked collaboratively in small groups to create striking, monochrome mobiles.

Flexuous is a specially commissioned artwork by former Criw Celf participant and Welshpool pupil Sophie Kumar-Taylor.

This Criw Celf commission celebrates Sophie's accomplishments as an early career artist and provides her with an opportunity to create a site-specific piece at Oriel Davies.

Sophie was a participant in Criw Celf in 2012-13 while she was a 6th Form pupil at Welshpool High School. She went on to gain her degree in Fine Art at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David's Carmarthen and is now a practicing artist. Throughout this time Sophie has returned regularly to Oriel Davies to assist at Criw Celf workshops, and has presented at a Criw Celf Arts Careers event. She will be leading her first Criw Celf workshops alongside this exhibition, to explore tessellated shapes, an aspect of geometry that Sophie has explored in depth in her artwork.

Flexuous responds to the gallery space by creating flowing lines full of bends and curves in an entirely geometric room. This brightly coloured, and vigorous foliage-like artwork brings colour and energy to the white walls. Sophie's inspiration for this commission evolved from making origami-like forms to create geometric patterns. These were contorted with great care to create curved edges giving the work an almost organic look, which adds to their energy as they flow around the gallery walls.

Flexuous and Mobile Tales are showing at Oriel Davies from March 9-30, with free entry.