Ein brenin a fu, ein brenin a fydd

Legendary  Landmarks

Cerrig Meibion Arthur, amongst the Preseli mountains in Pembrokeshire.

Sarn Gynfelyn, near Aberystwyth, Ceredigion.

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This collaborative project seeks to produce a number of artistic interventions in the landscape, directly inspired by and themed around the legendary history of each particular location and the events said to have occurred there. 

 

The aim is to produce a physical and virtual network of monuments to myth and the resurrection of ancient cultural traditions through the new guise of contemporary art.  It seeks to become a mass movement in order to recapture and resurrect traditional cultural landmarks both literally and ideologically.  It forms a three-fold occupation of cultural space along with physical space in the landscape and virtual space on the web dealing with the complex relationships between narrative and the landscape/environment and what issues that raises in how we define our identity.  It will seek in a small way to recapture the reigns of contemporary artistic practice, ideologically transfixed by the shock of the new and redirect it towards the traditions that have been the inspiration for art and culture for hundreds of years. 

 

Along with this preservation and reinvigoration of folk culture it will seek to remove the cultural object away from the traditional contexts of art, away from the commercial hub of London and into the remote hills, woods and shores of the Celtic west. 

 

The ultimate aim of this project is to expand from this initial series of work into a flourishing, collaborative national, even international network of artworks each marking legendary/mythological sites in order that we should think once again upon the glories of our past that define the very places in which we live and the people we are today.

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