Gorchydd Llwch
Dust cover

Dust cover was made of welsh wool from yr Ysgwrn and neighbouring farms, felted using Ysgwrn well water.
Made for the Anglesey National Eisteddfod in 2017, a response to the Black chair one hundred years on.
Dust cover is supported on a metal frame.
The work was also exhibited in the Sendd ( Welsh Goverment building , Cardiff ) 

Winning the chair for measured poetry in the National Eisteddfod is the pinnacle of a poets carrier, In 1917 The chair was won by Hedd Wyn of Yr Ysgwrn Trasfynnydd, who never came  to know of his success as he was killed in the war a few weeks before the ceremony. The chair was covered in a black cloth during the sad ceremony in 1917 and known ever since as the black chair. The black chair came back to Trawsfynnydd and has been there ever since. This eisteddfod chair was different, as it was a throne and highly symbolically carved, was made by a Belgium refugee,  and has the words Hero carved on the chair ( the tile of the competition that year ) Hedd wyn was killed in Belgium in the trenches.
Dust Cover, being a felt cast of the black chair also resembling a Throne, has references to world leaders that have power, however the slightly haunting empty chair reminds us that we still have an empt chair to represent what we wanted one hundred years on.

Gerald Williams,  Hedd Wyn’s nephew who lives at the Ysgwrn has given his life to welcome visitors wanting to see the chair, allowing us not to forget the story and a reminder of Peace, what was and still  wanted a 100 years on. The work also being a kind tribute to him today.