....Meri Wells: Ceramic Portal Series..Meri Wells: Cyfres Porthol Serameg....
....5 May –..5 Mai –....
....Studio 6..Stiwdio 6....
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A new series of craft work in focus from Welsh ceramic makers
Series curation: Wendy Lawrence
Meri Wells
I work in a tin shed in a valley. The small figures come out of the hedge that I can see from the window. They march past reviving forgotten imagery of childhood stories and our cultural myths. I try to draw them in that first fleeting glimpse. They are best viewed in groups, from the perspective of personal history and the elemental associations with certain places. The larger, often lifesize pieces are, I believe, a result of disillusionment with how we repeatedly fail to sustain a functional society. So I based these on forms which inhabit a parallel universe and often they are self portraits. They are made from coiled, grogged clay and soda fired in a wood kiln to stoneware temperatures, using locally sourced slips.
My figurative sculptures are hand build and fired in a wood kiln with locally sourced slips and soda. Suitable for indoor and outdoor locations, they offer an alternative look at life, glimpsing the variations as they leak through the gaps in our reality and occasioning a double take involving memory and emotions.
All works available to purchase
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Cyfres newydd o waith crefft mewn ffocws gan wneuthurwyr serameg Cymreig
Curadur y gyfres: Wendy Lawrence
Meri Wells
Bydda i’n gweithio mewn sied dun a honno mewn cwm. Daw’r ffigurau o’r gwrych y galla i ei weld o’r ffenest. Byddant yn gorymdeithio heibio i mi gan adfywio delweddaeth anghofiedig straeon plentyndod a’n mythau diwylliannol. Bydda i’n ceisio eu harlunio yn y cipolwg cyntaf hwnnw. Maent i’w gweld orau mewn grwpiau o bersbectif hanes personol a’r cysylltiadau elfennol â rhai lleoedd arbenning. Canlyniad yw’r darnau, maint go-iwan yn aml, yn fy marn i, i ddadrithiad ynglŷn â sut y byddwn o hyd yn methu â chynnal cymdeithas weithredol. Felly bydda i’n seilio’r rhain ar ffurfiau sy’n anheddu bydysawd cyforchrog ac wedyn mae yna huanbortreadau. Maent yn cael eu gwneud o glaid wedi’i grogio a’i dorchi a’i danio a soda mewn odyn goed i dymheredd llestri called gan ddefnyddio slipiau o ffynonellau lleol.
Mae fy ngherfluniau ffigurol i wedi’u gwneud â llaw a’u tanio ar odyn goed gyda slips a soda lleol. Yn addas ar gyfer lleoliadau dan do ac awyr agored, maen nhw’n cynnig golwg wahanol ar fywyd, yn rhoi cipolwg ar yr amrywiadau wrth iddyn nhw ddiferu drwy’r bylchau yn ein realaeth a pheri ail-olwg sy’n golygu cof ac emosiynau.
Mae’r gweithiau ar gael i’w prynu
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