Carreg Ateb: Vision or Dream? brings together newly commissioned works by Welsh artists alongside works by Jeremy Deller and significant collection objects from the National Museum of Wales, Storiel, and Llandudno Museum. 

“Carreg Ateb” is the name of a rock believed to cause an echo, an answering stone. In this context the exhibition invites reflections on how we listen to the past and how we imagine the future. Moving between memory and material, identity and transformation, dream and vision, the artists engage with the land, languages, and layered histories that shape contemporary Wales. 

Together, the exhibition asks: how do we hear the past speak, and what answers do we seek from place. Carreg Ateb: Vision or Dream? reflects on real and imagined spaces, a site of deep memory, radical tradition, and visionary futures.

Co-curated by Jeremy Deller, Kalliopi Tsipni-Kolaza, Joanna Wright and in collaboration with the young company participants at Frân Wen Theatre Company. 

The exhibition accompanies the National Gallery’s NG200: Triumph of Art, a national project by artist Jeremy Deller, which was commissioned by the National Gallery, London, as part of NG200, its Bicentenary celebrations.

Carreg Ateb: Vision or Dream? is supported by the Arts Council of Wales, Cadw and Gwynedd County Council. The exhibition at Mostyn is supported by CELF, The National Contemporary Art Gallery Wales, The Colwinston Charitable Trust, Foyle Foundation, Community Foundation Wales, Mostyn Estates and PPG Paints.