Gwneud Synwyr

Adoption coats Installation
‘Gwneud Synwyr’ 
Collaborative residency with artist Carlos Pinatti  ( Argentinian artist based in Wales ) 
Residency at National Museum and National Eisteddfod Maldwyn . 
2003.  
This work was exhibited at the National Eisteddfod in a location near the welsh border. 
A Body of work to do with Identity, and change of Identity in two locations in Rural Mid Wales. work consists of : film 9 16 mins ),  adoption coats, photographs, museum case of agriculture identity tools, books of sheep ear marks, branding irons. 
This work has a narrative between how lambs that loose their Mother Ewes during lambing season on farms and how lambs that do not have a Mother are put together through the use of adoption coats. The farmer skins the dead lamb to put the coat on the lamb that is in need of adoption. The coat in a matter of days becomes irrelevant and gets hung up. 
The school it self is seen as the adoption coat where children form non welsh speaking homes are taught the welsh language, the new alphabet and change of identity as the children become bilingual.  This is a tribute to the work the teacher does in helping new migrant children at the School be part of the welsh culture and landscape. A Thank you to those parents that encourage  this bringing fresh blood to an ancient culture in order to keep it a live. 
however in both locations, if there is an over influx of incomers to the School of if the Farm is farmed intensively ( factory )  the skills of both farmer and Teacher are unable to function in this way.  
tags : welsh culture , culture, farming art, art and farming, welsh art, welsh artist, rural, rural art , rural installation, wool installation , wool work,  art and language , coats,  
cat : Installation art, Culture art, Visual art , textile art, sculpture, 
 16 min film   
wooden rail
coat hooks  
name tags  
welsh wool
cured lamb skin
wooden farm door
strip of photographs of the skinning of dead lamb. 
image 1 :  
wooden rail suggesting a School coat rail with metal hooks and name plates with welsh names inserted,  one ‘x’ name plate. A woollen child’s felt coat made of welsh wool  hangs on the hook symbolising the School with a suggested slate insert with the beginnings of the welsh alphabet.  
image 2 : 
A still form the film where we see an english non welsh speaker copy her welsh speaking friend as she writes down the welsh alphabet on the modern white board.