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Life changing sickness is a commonality that connects many artists' otherwise disparate practices across decades, genres and lifetimes*. Deserters asks, ‘What is the relationship between illness and making? ‘Good health’ has obvious merit – but what about the value of ‘ill health’?’
Society draws a line between the healthy and the sick; mind and body; good and bad. Artists often occupy the fault line between these definitions and while illness, a common theme in art and literature, can be seen as a symbol of alienation, it can also be the key to ‘desertion’ into a creative space.
This exhibition brings together the work of 12 artists: Jenny Alderton, Delphi Campbell, Hal Camplin, Laura Dutton, Johannes Gérard, Dave Gowers, Steph Mastoris, Charlotte Morgan, Jack Moyse, Nel, Tracie Peisley and Katya Robin, to reveal themes and modes that can be broadly described as: abstraction, repetition and pattern making; nature and healing; lying down while the world stands up; the body – whole and in parts; words and printed text. In addition to the main funded project, the website will also feature work by other artists who are showing their work online.
Supported by Zoë Gingell, curator of Oriel Y Bont, Caroline Humphreys and Bella Kerr are co-curating Deserters, alongside Amanda Roderick, who is also creating its online presence.
The project is co-funded by the Arts Council Wales Create Fund, the University of South Wales and by the extra, unpaid time and goodwill of all the exhibitors, curators and other contributors.
Mae salwch sy'n newid bywyd yn gyffredinrwydd sy'n cysylltu arferion a oedd fel arall yn wahanol i lawer o artistiaid ar draws degawdau, genres a bywydau*. Mae Deserters yn gofyn, ‘Beth yw’r berthynas rhwng salwch a gwneuthuriad? Mae rhinwedd amlwg i ‘iechyd da’ – ond beth am werth ‘afiechyd’?’
Mae cymdeithas yn tynnu llinell rhwng yr iach a'r claf; meddwl a chorff; da a drwg. Mae artistiaid yn aml yn meddiannu’r bwlch rhwng y diffiniadau hyn ac er bod salwch, sy’n thema gyffredin mewn celf a llenyddiaeth, yn gallu cael ei weld fel symbol o ddieithrwch, gall hefyd fod yn allweddol i ‘ddiffeithwch’ i mewn i ofod creadigol.
Mae’r arddangosfa hon yn dwyn ynghyd waith 12 artist: Jenny Alderton, Delphi Campbell, Hal Camplin, Laura Dutton, Johannes Gérard, Dave Gowers, Steph Mastoris, Charlotte Morgan, Jack Moyse, Nel, Tracie Peisley a Katya Robin, i ddatgelu themâu a dulliau y gellir eu disgrifio’n fras fel: haniaethu, ailadrodd a gwneud patrymau; natur ac iachâd; gorwedd tra saif y byd; y corff - yn gyfan ac mewn rhannau; geiriau a thestun printiedig. Yn ogystal â'r prif brosiect a ariennir, bydd y wefan hefyd yn cynnwys gwaith gan artistiaid eraill sy'n dangos eu gwaith ar-lein.
Gyda chymorth Zoë Gingell, curadur Oriel Y Bont, mae Caroline Humphreys a Bella Kerr yn cyd-guradu Deserters, ochr yn ochr ag Amanda Roderick, sydd hefyd yn creu ei phresenoldeb ar-lein.
Ariennir y prosiect ar y cyd gan Gronfa Creu Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru, Prifysgol De Cymru a thrwy amser ychwanegol, di-dâl ac ewyllys da yr holl arddangoswyr, curaduron a chyfranwyr eraill.
References
* The Wellcome Collection Misbehaving Bodies (September 2018 – January 2020, London)