Arwydd arall (Another sign), 2023 - ongoing
Steel road-sign frames and prints on aluminium
70 x 61 x 45cm
In this series of signs, short poems in the strict meter form of
cynghanedd reflect on the narratives of peatlands and our relationship to the textures of these landscapes. They use the brown colour typical of tourist signs dotted throughout rural environments in a combination of Welsh, English and Irish.
“Cynghanedd, an oral tradition whose rigid strictures enable a uniquely melodic poetics, is an apt medium for an artist who consistently probes the capacity of existing material (whether sculptural, linguistic, or both at once) for propositional, speculative, even fantastical ends: a mode of eco-inclined sculpture both refreshingly undidactic and distinctly contemporary.”
- Dylan Huw
for Artforum
Installation view: Cors Fochno raised bog, May 2025