Delwedd: TIRLUN
Delwedd: NID AUR YW POPETH MELYN
Delwedd: CERDYN AUR
Delwedd: CREDIT CRUNCH |
DATGANIAD BYR AM Y GWAITH: Dyma gorff o waith bychain mewn maint cyntaf Angharad Pearce Jones, sydd mwy adnabyddus am weithiau gosod enfawr. Mae Angharad yn cynnal eu gwaith creadigol personol, trwy weithio fel gof a ffabrigydd metel i’r cwmni Haearn – Designer Blacksmiths Ltd Yn ystod ei diwrnod gweithiol, mae hi wedi mynd ati i gasglu ac i ail ffurfio’r man wastraff o gwmpas y gweithdy metel, i greu gweithiau celf bychain. Tra bo rhai angen elfen o greadigaeth i’w trawsnewid, creodd eraill eu hunain Ffurfiwydun o lwch dur ar y wal tu ol i’r torrwr, dros gyfnod o chew mlynedd. Wedi derbyn gorchymyn i dorri ei cherdiau credydd a’u danfon yn nol, creodd Angharad waith celf ohonynt yn lle, a’i alw’n Credit Crunch. Mae’r tameidiau bychain wedi eu hail ffurfio i faint union cerdyn credydd.
SHORT STATEMENT ABOUT THE WORK: Accustomed to producing large scale installations, this is the first body of smaller works produced by Angharad Pearce Jones. Angharad supports her creative practice by working as a blacksmith/metal fabricator, for Haearn-Designer Blacksmiths Ltd. During the course of her working day, she has collected and re-modelled some of the detritus and waste products of the metal workshop, forming them into small scale works of art. One work formed itself over a period of six years, from layers of iron dust congealed on the workshop wall, behind the metal disc cutter. Credit Crunch was developed from a request by credit card companies to “cut up your cards and send them back to us “ . Angharad decided to hold on to them and produce a work of art instead. The individual cut pieces have been re-formed into the exact scale of a credit card.
"Mae gwaith Angharad Pearce Jones, sef cerfluniau bychanig bron, hudol a rhyfedd, yn defnyddio haearn, llwch a phren - deunyddiau sylfaenol bywyd - i ymgorffori, yn hytrach na chynrychioli, y dirwedd naturiol fel elfen hanfodol, sydd mor bwysig fel bod yn rhaid ei warchod dan wydr." - Declan McGonagle, Cyfarwyddwr Coleg Cenedlaethol Celf a Dylunio, Dulyn. Detholwr: Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru, Arddangosfa Agored 2012
"Angharad Pearce Jones’ almost miniature sculptures, mesmerising and strange, use iron, dust and wood – the stuff of life – to embody, rather than represent, the natural landscape as fundamental, so important that it has o be protected under glass."
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