Oriel Q - Queens Hall Gallery, High Street, Narberth, Pembrokeshire, SA67 7AS [t] 01834 869454 Manager: Lynne Crompton
Philippa Lawrence
Bound
12 January to 10 February
Bound was an Arts Council of Wales 'Creative Wales' supported project. I aimed to identify and 'wrap' an ancient dead tree in each of the old counties of Wales.
At present this stands at nine counties and I hope to return to the project in time and with funding to complete my intention.
This exhibition is a photographic record of this project.
My reason for making work comes from a desire to connect with others – to assuage some of the feelings of separateness, which form part of the human condition.
A desire to take work out of a gallery environment into the public realm and to draw attention to the beauty in the everyday is illustrated most visibly in Bound.
The project connects me to the land: physically, in the time spent wrapping the trees and through the long journeys spent in seeking them out; and also emotionally, when meeting and talking to those local to the area and those that own and work the land.
