The 12th century folktales of The Mabinogion have served as a key reference for the exhibition, and the artists have responded by making new works that incorporate painting, sculpture and textiles.

Elinor Stanley uses painting to amplify and heighten experience with glowing imagery in strange and filmic compositions. She is drawn to the vigour of the fantastical – the placid persistence of its presence in human interpretations.  For ‘Stand on All Fours’  she has created a body of paintings based on the flower woman Blodeuwedd, amongst other absurd and violent happenings from The Mabinogion. Blodeuwedd has become a recurring character in the works, neon lit and staring- making her way through paintings to quilts.

In Mark Corfield-Moore’s painting practice, the act of weaving on a loom becomes a meditation on the idiosyncrasies of past events and experiences. Memories, be they historical or personal, are re-performed through a hybrid process incorporating painting and ikat, in which the artist paints images with dye directly onto strands of loose cotton threads before they are woven permanent. For ‘Stand on All Fours’, Corfield-Moore will continue to explore his experience as part of the Thai/British Diaspora. In particular he will focus on the distinction between language and sound, in terms of his own purely oral understanding of the Thai language, and in more general the slippage and use of the Latin Alphabet for both the Welsh and English languages.