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New Contemporary Artworks for Swansea
Tine Bech, Jackie Chettur, Rebecca Spooner, Simon Whitehead
8th – 31st October 2010
A series of new public art projects commissioned by Swansea arts charity Locws International, are set to be staged during the Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts in October 2010. Each of the temporary projects celebrate the rich and diverse history of the city and explore aspects of the city’s culture.
Danish artist Tine Bech has been working with the communities of St Thomas, Grenfell Park and Port Tennant as part of the SA1 Swansea Waterfront Art Programme to develop an artwork that reflects the area’s rich maritime history. She is working with local people through a series of ‘Light Drawing’ workshops to explore the history and memories of the local community. These drawings are to be the inspiration for a bold, colourful sculpture for the SA1 area that represents the local communities’ relationship with this historic area of Swansea.
Welsh artist, Rebecca Spooner has responded to Cwmdonkin Park and the inspiration it gave to Dylan Thomas and particularly his poem ‘The Hunchback in the Park’. She has responded to the park’s rich wildlife and created a film-based work that explores the impact our urban parks can have upon us, both in giving us the opportunity to be connected to nature and in turn with ourselves. Set alongside other artefacts and memorabilia that relate to Dylan Thomas, her work is viewable at the Dylan Thomas Centre.
Marking 70 years since the beginning of the devastating bombing of Swansea during the Second World War, Simon Whitehead returns to this traumatic part of the city’s history by exploring the bomb craters left across the city and collating stories of peoples’ experiences and memories of them. Using a series of aerial photographs of the city taken by the Luftwaffe, he has created an interactive map that takes the viewer on a walk through the landscape of the city to discover if any of the craters still exist and what happened to the ones that have disappeared.
There is also another chance to see Jackie Chettur’s ‘…it is 89 days since we left the Mumbles Head’. The history of the Swansea ‘Cape Horners’ journeys are beautifully told through a series of images that are displayed within stereo viewers. If you missed it last time here is a second chance.
Maps and further information about the artworks will be available at the Locws Hub at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea.
Locws International works with international and Welsh contemporary artists to create new visual artworks and projects that respond to the culture and heritage of the City of Swansea. With Support from The Arts Council of Wales, The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, The City & County of Swansea and the Welsh Assembly Government.
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For further information contact Holly Davey, Project Manager on 01792 468979 or holly@locwsinternational.com/old for images or further information
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Celf GyfoesNewydd ar gyfer Abertawe
Tine Bech, Jackie Chettur, Spooner Rebecca, Simon Whitehead
8 – 31 Hydref, 2010
Mae cyfres o brosiectau celf gyhoeddus newydd a gomisiynwyd gan yr elusen y celfyddydau Abertawe Locws Rhyngwladol, yn mynd i gael ei chynnal yn ystod yr Ŵyl Cerdd Abertawe a’r Celfyddydau ym mis Hydref 2010. Mae pob un o’r prosiectau dros dro yn dathlu hanes cyfoethog ac amrywiol y ddinas ac yn archwilio agweddau o ddiwylliant y ddinas.
Tine Bech wedi bod yn gweithio gyda chymunedau St Thomas, Parc Grenfell a Phort Tennant fel rhan o’r SA1 Glannau Abertawe Rhaglen Gelf i ddatblygu gwaith celf sy’n adlewyrchu hanes yr ardal morwrol cyfoethog. Mae’n gweithio gyda phobl leol drwy gyfres o ‘Light Drawing’ gweithdai i archwilio hanes ac atgofion y gymuned leol. Y darluniau hyn i fod yn ysbrydoliaeth i beiddgar, cerflun lliwgar ar gyfer yr ardal SA1 sy’n cynrychioli perthynas y cymunedau lleol ‘â’r ardal hanesyddol o Abertawe.
Rebecca Spooner wedi ymateb i’r Parc Cwmdonkin a roddodd ysbrydoliaeth i Dylan Thomas ac yn enwedig ei gerdd ‘The Hunchback yn y Parc’. Mae hi wedi ymateb i fywyd gwyllt y parc yn gyfoethog ac yn creu gwaith ffilm yn seiliedig sy’n edrych ar yr effaith y gall ein parciau trefol wedi arnom ni, yn rhoi cyfle i ni fod yn gysylltiedig â natur ac yn ei dro â ni ein hunain. Set ochr yn ochr â arteffactau a phethau cofiadwy eraill sy’n ymwneud â Dylan Thomas, ei gwaith yn viewable yn y Ganolfan Dylan Thomas.
Marcio 70 mlynedd ers cychwyn y bomio dinistriol o Abertawe yn ystod yr Ail Ryfel Byd, Simon Whitehead i’r rhan hon trawmatig o hanes y ddinas gan edrych ar y Craterau bom chwith ar draws y ddinas ac yn coladu straeon o brofiadau pobl ac atgofion ohonynt. Gan ddefnyddio cyfres o luniau o’r awyr ar y ddinas a gymerwyd gan y Luftwaffe, mae wedi creu map rhyngweithiol sy’n cymryd y gwyliwr ar daith trwy dirlun y ddinas i ddarganfod os oes unrhyw un o’r Craterau yn dal i fodoli a beth a ddigwyddodd i’r rhai sydd wedi diflannu.
Mae hefyd yn gyfle arall i weld Jackie Chettur’s ‘…it is 89 days since we left the Mumbles Head’. Mae hanes y Abertawe ‘Cape Horners’ teithiau yn cael gwybod hyfryd trwy gyfres o ddelweddau sydd yn cael eu harddangos mewn stereo gwylwyr. Os byddwch yn ei golli tro diwethaf yma yn ail gyfle.
Bydd Mapiau a gwybodaeth bellach am y gwaith celf ar gael yn y Ganolfan Locws yn Amgueddfa Genedlaethol y Glannau, Abertawe.
Locws Rhyngwladol yn gweithio gydag artistiaid cyfoes rhyngwladol a Cymru i greu gwaith celf gweledol newydd a phrosiectau sy’n ymateb i ddiwylliant a threftadaeth y Dinas Abertawe. Gyda Cymorth gan Gyngor Celfyddydau Cymru, Y Sefydliad Esmée Fairbairn, Dinas a Sir Abertawe a Llywodraeth Cynulliad Cymru.
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Nodiadau i Olygyddion: Am wybodaeth bellach, cysylltwch â Holly Davey, Rheolwr y Prosiect, ar 01792 468979 neu holly@locwsinternational.com/old
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