GOLLWNG // SLOUGH

GOLLWNG//SLOUGH is the trace of a huge charcoal drawing that covered the east wall of Capel Bethel in Cwmrheidol until March this year. It is the aftermath of the shedding of a latex skin which now holds the drawings imprint, like a giant tattoo.

The drawing was an extemporisation from photographs taken by the artist and other explorers of long abandoned lead and silver mines of Ceredigion. The chapel was built in 1872 to service the burgeoning local Welsh and incoming Cornish mining community of the Rheidol valley at the time.

There is a film of the process, as the latex rolled itself down the wall. Both the film and the object will premier at the National Eisteddfod 2025 in Wrexham this July.