[lang_en]Land and Sea
Quadrant Shopping Centre / Bus Station
Neville Gabie has created a project that literally illustrates the face of Swansea: its landscape, buildings and evolving skyline.
Travelling on various bus routes around the city, Gabie produced a series of drawings onto the windows of the bus in the brief moments it stopped to pick up passengers. By filming this process, it became a way of mapping and holding onto the glimpses one sees when passing through the city.
Alongside the bus journey, Gabie presents two parallel films, a train journey across Siberia and a sea passage to Antarctica. By presenting the three journeys together, in the Quadrant Shopping Centre on the approach to the bus station, he creates a metaphorical starting point for the journey of the imagination, as well as a real launch pad for many Swansea adventures.
Neville Gabie was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and now lives and works in Stroud, UK.
He completed his MA in sculpture at the Royal College of Art in 1988. He has undertaken a number of international residences, and has curated and organised off-site projects in the UK. His work has been shown extensively internationally and nationally.
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Land and Sea
Nghanolfan Siopa’r Cwadrant / Orsaf Fysus
Mae Neville Gabie wedi creu prosiect sydd yn darlunio wyneb Abertawe yn llythrennol: ei thirwedd, ei hadeiladau a’i nenlinell sy’n newid o hyd.
Drwy deithio ar amrywiaeth o lwybrau bysus o amgylch y ddinas, mae Gabie wedi cynhyrchu cyfres o luniadau ar ffenestri’r bws yn yr eiliadau prin pan arhosodd i godi teithwyr. Drwy ffilmio’r broses hon, daeth yn ffordd o fapio a’r gipolwg y mae rhywun yn gweld wrth deithio trwy’r ddinas.
Ynghyd â’r daith ar y bws, mae Gabie yn cyflwyno dwy ffilm baralel, taith drên ar draws Siberia a thaith ar y môr i Antarctica. Trwy gyflwyno’r tair taith gyda’i gilydd, yng Nghanolfan Siopa’r Cwadrant ger yr orsaf fysus, mae’n creu man cychwyn trosiadol ar gyfer taith y dychymyg, yn ogystal â lle go iawn i ddechrau ar sawl antur yn Abertawe.
Ganwyd Neville Gabie yn Johannesburg, De Affrica ac erbyn hyn mae’n byw ac yn gweithio yn Stroud, y DU.
Cwblhaodd MA mewn cerflunwaith yn y Coleg Celf Brenhinol ym 1988. Mae wedi cael sawl cyfnod preswyl rhyngwladol, ac mae wedi curadu a threfnu prosiectau oddi ar y safle yn y DU. Mae ei waith wedi cael ei arddangos yn helaeth yn rhyngwladol ac yn genedlaethol.
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