The third film in The Director’s Cut series sees us visit the small sea-side town of Llandudno in north Wales. Chris Sharratt introduces us to director Martin Barlow and Wales’s largest contemporary art gallery.  It would be easy to miss the new Mostyn gallery in Llandudno, to stroll by the late Victorian, terracotta façade and convince yourself that, no, this can’t be the £5m building designed by the same architects responsible for BALTIC in Gateshead. Big money so often requires big statements, but Mostyn is subtle, quiet and pleasingly modest. It all adds to the sense of discovery as you pass through its sliding glass doors, the red brick of history giving way to modern grey concrete, before its light-filled main gallery space unfolds in front of you. Of course, Llandudno was where the family of Lewis Carroll’s Alice regularly holidayed. And, while Mostyn may not offer up anything quite so unexpected and surreal as Alice’s rabbit hole – you won’t find Mad Hatters sipping lattes in the sleek new Café Lux upstairs – it is something of an art Wonderland in the midst of this north Wales seaside town. At odds with its surroundings but possessing a strong sense of belonging, Mostyn is, as Carroll might have put it, all wrong and all right, all at the same time. Martin Barlow, Mostyn’s director since 1997, likes it that way. A local boy who went away to study and work abroad, he eventually answered the call of Cymru and returned home. Like Mostyn, which began life in 1901 as the first gallery in the world dedicated to the work of women artists, Barlow’s career history is anything but conventional. His move into the visual arts began with a secondment to Tate Liverpool in 1988. He went there for three months and stayed for 18, the experience convincing him that it was time for a career change... Read the full text by at axisweb.org/​thedirectorscut/​martinbarlow