127 x 162mm, 78 pages, Colour printing, Risograph & letter press covers, 2025

Charting McGilvary’s research over the past four years into The Threes Crowns, north Wales’ only gar bar which closed due to an arson attack in 2014, Coronau includes drawings, collages and filmstills by McGilvary, as well as texts by Adrian Howard and Marcus Jack.

Published in conjunction with Batman!, an exhibition of new paintings by Owain Train McGilvary. This series –– presented within an installation of everyday debris relating to the studio or the dancefloor –– is a point of reflection within a larger body of work and research into homosocial imagery, stemming from amateur photography from North Wales’ only gay bar and absences from Cardiff’s museum archives. Over the last four years, McGilvary has been engaging in various collaborative endeavours with his peers to re-assemble the various formal and informal archival materials into multimedia installations.

These archival remnants have also become visual material for his paintings, within which to create new narratives –– pushed up and layered over gay iconography from popular culture, comic books, fanfiction and internet searches, particularly regurgitating and fracturing paintings of the Welsh mining community by Jack Crabtree. These paintings hold a dense pictorial landscape which seek to reinterpret an idea of a collective (and personal/individual) specifically Welsh gay identity.

Published by