Marged Pendrell
Ar y gweill - Work in Progress
Please see my blog about work in progress April - August
Experimental beginnings to understand how the layers of experience of ‘Place’ , connect from a historical, geological and personal viewpoint. I aim to develop this spatial vocabulary that challenges ways of thinking about place and belonging (‘cynefin’).
Layered paper works following a visit to Cwmorthin quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog exploring what was present and absent within the quarry landscape.
Layered works of past and present mapping below and above the quarry surface
Following our walk around the Dorothea Quarry in Dyffryn Nantlle and continuing the series on layered ‘Deep Maps’.
This incorporates sketch book material, geometric text, physical map drawings layered with a collaborative map that we all used as a starting point on that day.
Rhiw Bach quarry maps highlighting the history, colours and contour
"Dresel Bach Gwyllt" ... yn duanc o'r Ddresel Griddfan'.
Wedi eu gwneud efo olwynion a mwrthwl pren o shed tad Jill. Y Gwedddill o'n shed i.
Cypyrddau Chwarel - Quarry Cupboards
Displaced / Dadleoli
Continuing with my Quarry Cupboards, a female stripper finds herself on the shelves of a quarry dresser.
‘Beth yw’r platiau yma I gyd?’
The Ddresel has played a large part in my thinking process both physically as I visit quarry houses and as part of the larger collaborative 'Ddresel Griddfan' we are working on. This series of 4 drawers are fragments of memories.
1.'Môr y Papurwal/ Sea of Wallpaper” -2nd version
2. ‘Y Parlwr/The Parlour”
A dresser drawer as shrine incorporating both the work of men (rubbings of slate carvings)and women (crochet placemat)of the quarry. Dogs are supporting the books that played an important part in quarry homes.
3. “Y Byd tu Allan -The Outside World”
A more literal glimpse into the past, with quarry ponies making their way back from the sea in the trucks they pulled down full of slate. The lamb symbolising farming, remains a constant in their lives.
4. “Y Fam Gymraeg/The Welsh Mam “
The 4th in this series of dresser cupboards exploring the matriarchal society of Welsh quarry families.
Charcoal drawings exploring the repeated form and patterns of the blocked windows and door structures of Rhiw Bach Quarry.
Work in progress: Nov/Dec 2018
I have continued to explore the blocked windows and doors with repeated line echoing the formation of slate over time. The works below explore various scales.
Window forms (disused) - line
Window forms (disused) -colour of lichen
Using blocked forms as positive forms
Work in progress January 2019
My main work for the last few months has been the ‘Cwrlyd Llechen ‘- ‘Slate Quilt’. It was made from recycled roofing slates, using roofing slate hand cutting tools, the French scissors and later, a small guillotine. This work’s progress both in concept and in practise will be detailed in a blog post shortly.
The pattern incorporated traditional Welsh quilt designs
The finished quilt and pillows are true to the scale of a double bed used in Blaenau Ffestiniog during the early 20th century.
To see more work in progress take look at The Mapping Room