Mystery of easels in old TJ Hughes and Henblas Street shops explained

Mystery has surrounded various easels appearing in empty town centre shops this week – with questions to various arts and town stakeholders coming up with a blank.

We have been told that the quiet pop up is via PAPOA, an organisation that aims to make art ‘accessible to individuals who otherwise may not have the opportunity, time or inclination to engage’.

“Preservation and Promotion of the Arts (PAPOA) is an incorporated charitable organisation with a number of concerns. Our aim is to promote and preserve arts in all their current forms.”

Despite being across the road from the future Arts Hub and existing Wrexham Council run Oriel Wrecsam there was no knowledge or promotion of the event that we have found. Likewise those we spoke to at Wrexham Glyndwr University did not know of the event.

We had an entry to our events section with a hint of an external exhibition, however no detail of it being inside various buildings.

The event has been on since yesterday until Friday and is free to enter if open – due to be 10am – 4pm however as the picture above shows early afternoon the exhibition was closed.

Hopefully things will be more accessible to the public for the rest of the week, and that more people will be aware of it due to this!

Top pic: Peering inside TJ Hughes earlier today, via the dirty windows that the absent landlord have neglected to clean over several years.