Crossed Paths

Oriel Davies presents the Welsh component in an immersive multi-media installation and contextual exhibition that offers a non-representational and ecological response to an area within the Cambrian Mountains, West Wales.

In the summer and autumn of 2017, the artist, wearing a sheep fleece and covered in 14 GoPro cameras crawled, in stages, along 5.5 mile of sheep tracks in the Cambrian uplands: from the peat and heather moorlands high up at Pen y Garn, down through acid grassland and peaty Molinia / rush bogs and finally into the improved pastures and managed farmlands to the Pwllpeiran Upland Research Centre in Cwmystwyth. As a kind of cyborg sheep/human she attempted to document, experience and understand the mountain, its inhabitants and its matter, in relation to her body, moving in an altered state through the landscape.

The resulting work and exhibition features discussions by the researchers at Pwllpeiran, alongside creative responses from local musicians including Ric Lloyd, Harriet Earis, Tim Noble, Diarmuid Johnson and Jasper Salmon. Contributions have also been made by poet Zoe Skoulding, writer Phil Smith, photographer Hannah Mann and Rhys Thwaites-Jones of Fforest Films who has made a documentary film about the project.

A publication accompanies the project.

Link to a short documentary film by Rhys Thwaites about Miranda Whall's project.

Events

Opening & Panel Discussion: Crossed Paths | Miranda Whall | Saturday 21 April
*Launch event: Panel Discussion | 4 - 5.30pm
*Exhibition Opening | 6 - 8pm

Field Trip - Crossed Paths | Miranda Whall | Saturday 26 May | 2 - 5pm

Development of the project can be followed on the artist’s blog -

http://www.mirandawhall.space/

Supported by the Arts Council of Wales and Aberystwyth University