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Foundation for Life video compilation  2025 (11.57 mins) Reflections of Art + Design Foundation Course past students, many taught by Osi Rhys Osmond at Carmarthen School of Art in west Wales  https://vimeo.com/1051629499

Have we asked enough questions?  2015 (14.57 mins) Osi reflects on his life, and offers his thoughts about drawing, art appreciation, politics, and coming to terms with cancer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1acX9o7zZM

My Brief Eternity: Ar Awyr Le  2015 (12.30 mins) Tells the story of Osi Rhys Osmond and his last work of art, which he chose to create for Maggie’s South East Wales https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmBXubXy-BQ
 
Life Class – part one  2014 (31.14 mins)
Osi Rhys Osmond teaches drawing to Foundation art students in Swansea at his last life class https://culturecolony.com/en/media/video/osi-osmond-life-class-part-one
 
Life Class – part two  2014 (16.57 mins)
Osi talks about his life, his art, his hair and his cancer

https://culturecolony.com/en/media/video/osi-osmond-life-class-part-two

 
Machlud /Sunset – watercolours painted in Llansteffan  2012 (2 mins) https://vimeo.com/77799473
 
‘Graphic essays’ on the work of R.S.Thomas 2012 (4.27 mins) https://vimeo.com/97257826
 
Osi Rhys Osmond : The Tip 2009 (20.10 mins) Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 3 as the second part of “Twenty Minutes: Two Welsh Hills”. Osi climbs the spoil heap at Mynydd Machen and sees how history, which was once written in the landscape, is disappearing.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9STuNEqSFw
 
Trinity St Davids : Honorary Fellowship 2013 (1.41 mins)
 
Osi Rhys Osmond’s last work for Maggie’s Cancer Centre 2015 (2.18 mins) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-34290716
 
Byd o Liw 2006 2006 (24.07 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-DcyUAhAv0
 
Osi Rhys Osmond, the life class and other things essay by Bella Kerr published in Encounters with Osi 2014 https://www.bellakerr.com/encounters-with-osi/
 
Welsh Arts Archive – Osi Rhys Osmond by Bernard Mitchell Photographer https://bernardmitchell.co.uk/osi-rhys-osmond/

Osi Rhys Osmond on mentoring The Exhibitionists TV programme  July 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/posts/osi_rhys_osmond_on_mentoring_the_exhibitionists

BBC – Radio 4 – FUTURE PROOFING – The Immortality of the Crab  A radio programme discussing ideas of immortality, featuring Osi Rhys Osmond (at 17.20min of 25.45min). Broadcast on 20th September 2014.

BBC – Radio 3 – Free Thinking 2008 – Osi Rhys Osmond’s Free Thought

The items below are archived but links are no longer available:

Osi Rhys Osmond  featured in BBC programme The Culture Show 

Josef Herman lecture by Osi Rhys Osmond previously available on the Culture Colony website

From the Ruins  Osi Rhys Osmond and Iwan Bala discuss land, memory and history in Anselm Kiefer’s work and how this relates to contemporary art in Wales.

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Lliwiau was a series of 6 visually-stunning TV programmes  about colour, presented by Osi Rhys Osmond, broadcast  in Welsh on S4C 

Byd o Liw 

Cwpwrdd Dillad TV programme S4C