In Autumn 2023 we’re hosting artist Sean Edwards in residence at our Platfform 2 reading room.
Yr Hydref hwn rydym yn croesawu Sean Edwards i ystafell ddarllen Platfform 2.
Following on from Sean Edwards’ recent exhibition - For What we Have - as part of The Common Guild’s ‘Anywhere in the Universe’, a project centring the public library, we’re delighted to be hosting Sean in residence at our Platfform 2 reading room this Autumn.
Sean Edwards’ work investigates the sculptural and political potential of the everyday. The work intertwines simple sculptural objects, mixed media installations and audio-visual components with personal family and political histories. In For What we Have, Sean made a series of small-scale sculptures designed, like books, to be held in the hand and close to the body, and to sit on the shelves of a library. Considering the library catalogue as a site for sculpture, each work was assigned a unique shelf mark and entered into the library system. Enfolded into the cataloguing mechanisms of the library, the sculptures were locatable in the stacks; supported and contextualised by neighbouring titles.
Sean is interested in the act of browsing books within a library, where books act as portals to other places beyond our everyday realities. Through his residency with Peak, Sean will continue researching the library as a space imbued with a subtle and enduring political consciousness.
On Thursday 7th December, Sean Edwards will be in conversation with writer Jude Rodgers. Read more and book your place here.
Artist Biography
Sean Edwards (b. Cardiff 1980), graduated with an MA from the Slade School of Art in 2005, and is currently Programme Director for Fine Art & Photography at Cardiff School of Art and Design. He represented Wales at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019) and was awarded the Turner Prize Bursary in 2020 for the installation ‘Undo Things Done’. Recent solo exhibitions include 'chased losses', Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (2022) ‘distant borrowing’, Tanya Leighton, Berlin (2021); ‘Undo Things Done’, Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham, Senedd, National Assembly for Wales and Bluecoat, Liverpool (both 2020). Group shows include ‘British Art Show 9’, Hayward Touring and ‘The World We Live In’, Southbank Art Centre, London (both 2022); ‘Olaph the Oxman’, Copperfield Gallery, London (2019).
Yn dilyn arddangosfa ddiweddar Sean Edwards – For What we Have – fel rhan o broject The Common Guild ‘Anywhere in the Universe’ oedd yn canolbwyntio ar lyfrgelloedd cyhoeddus, rydym wrth ein boddau i fod yn croesawu Sean fel artist preswyl ein stafell ddarllen ar Blatfform 2 yr Hydref hwn.
Mae gwaith celf Sean Edwards yn archwilio potensial cerfluniol a gwleidyddol bywyd beunyddiol. Mae’r gwaith yn cydblethu gwrthrychau cerfluniol syml, gosodiadau cyfrwng cymysg ac elfennau clyweledol gydag hanesion teuluol a gwleidyddol personol. Yn For What we Have, lluniodd Sean gyfres o gerfluniau bychan oedd wedi’u cynllunio, fel llyfrau, i gael eu dal mewn llaw ac yn agos at y corff, ac i eistedd ar silffoedd llyfrgell. Gan ystyried catalog llyfrgell fel safle ar gyfer cerflunio, aseiniwyd marc silff unigryw i bob darn o waith unigol a gosodwyd hwynt o fewn system y llyfrgell. Wedi’u mewnblannu ym mecanweithiau catalogio’r llyfrgell, roedd modd dod o hyd i’r cerfluniau yn y pentyrrau llyfrau; wedi’u cynnal a’u cyd-destunoli gan y llyfrau o’u cwmpas.
Mae gan Sean ddiddordeb yn y weithred o bori drwy lyfrau mewn llyfrgell, lle mae llyfrau yn gweithredu fel pyrth i lefydd eraill tu hwnt i’n realiti beunyddiol. Drwy gyfrwng ei breswyliad gyda Peak, bydd Sean yn parhau i ystyried y llyfrgell fel gofod sydd wedi’i liwio ag ymwybyddiaeth wleidyddol cynnil a pharhaus.
Ar Ddydd Iau 7 Rhagfyr, bydd sgwrs rhwng Sean Edwards a’r sgwennwr Jude Rogers. Darllenwch fwy ac archebwch eich lle fan hyn.
Bywgraffiad Artist
Graddiodd Sean Edwards (g. Caerdydd 1980), gydag MA o Ysgol Gelf y Slade yn 2005, ac ar hyn o bryd fe yw Cyfarwyddwr Rhaglen Celf Gain a Ffotograffiaeth Coleg Celf a Dylunio Caerdydd. Cynrychiolodd Cymru yn 58fed Biennale Fenis (2019), a derbyniodd fwrsariaeth y Turner Prize yn 2020 ar gyfer y gosodiad ‘Undo Things Done’. Mae arddangosfeydd unigol diweddar wedi cynnwys ‘chased losses’, Oriel Temple Bar, Dulyn (2022) ‘distant borrowing’, Tanya Leighton, Berlin (2021); ‘Undo Things Done’, Tŷ Pawb, Wrecsam, Senedd Cymru a Bluecoat, Lerpŵl (ill dau yn 2020). Mae sioeau grŵp yn cynnwys ‘British Art Show 9’, Hayward Touring a ‘The World We Live In’, Canolfan Gelf Southbank, Llundain (ill dau yn 2022); ‘Olaph the Oxman’, Oriel Copperfield, Llundain (2019).