David Jones Centre - Launch Conference

14 September 2012, Drwm, National Library of Wales

The conference featured:

  • Keynote Speaker,  Professor Paul Hills, Emeritus Professor of Renaissance Art at the Courtauld Institute.
  • A presentation on the National Library’s David Jones collections
  • David Jones Between the Wars: the Years of Achievement, a new film by Derek Shiel and Adam Alive.  The film was introduced by writer/co-director Derek Shiel.

There were short presentations on the Centre’s two main research areas, namely The Enclosed Garden by David Jones

  • The relation between word and image
  •  Modernism, and its legacy, in Wales


To discuss this, or to find out more about the Centre and its launch, please contact

Dr Luke Thurston, lut@aber.ac.uk