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Tracey McMaster

South Wales
Artist based in Wales, makes paintings and then videos mostly.

I live in a coastal town in Wales and feel rooted to my environment, the sea, and its stories. I use materials from the sea to help me create my paintings. I make paint from the broken shells of the shoreline. I use this paint and oil paint to produce small and medium scale work in response to themes of women and their relationship to the sea, fertility and belonging. The paintings explore depictions of women as ferocious, strong, magical, salty beings. Through this process, I reflect upon my relationship to the place I live in, accompanied by a longing to know how others might contribute to these ideas.

We, like sea pebbles, are shaped by our environments. I also make moving image works where I connect with individuals in the community as I want to investigate the dynamic relationship between people and place. I advertise in local papers looking for participants who have traditional interests that I find intriguing. The moving image works are around ten minutes in duration and are made through interviews with the contributor in their environment. The people I work with are informed, eccentric or extraordinary in their own way, for example, horologists in their studio surrounded by clocks, psychics holding a seance in an art gallery basement, a pigeon fancier waiting for their pigeons to fly home to roost.


 

Datganiad Artist

Dwi’n byw mewn tref arfordirol yng Nghymru a dwi’n teimlo wedi fy ngwreiddio yn fy amgylchedd, y môr, a’i straeon. Dwi’n defnyddio deunyddiau o’r môr i helpu i greu fymhaentiadau. Dwi’n gwneud paent allan o gregyn toredig y draethlin. Dwi wedyn yn    defnyddio’r paent a’r paent olew hwn i gynhyrchu gweithiau maint bach a chanolig mewn ymateb i themâu fel menywod a’u perthynas â’r môr, ffrwythlondeb ac ymberthyn. Mae’r peintiadau yn archwilio portreadau o fenywod fel bodau ffyrnig, cryf, hudol, hallt. Drwy’r broses hon, dwi’n myfyrio ar fy mherthynas â’r lle rwy’n byw ynddo, ynghyd â dyhead i wybod sut gallai eraill gyfrannu at y syniadau hyn.

Rydym ni, fel cerrig mân y môr, yn cael ein mowldio gan ein hamgylchedd. Dwi hefyd yn gwneud gweithiau delweddau symudol lle dwi’n cysylltu gydag unigolion yn y gymuned gan fy mod i’n awyddus i ymchwilio i’r berthynas ddeinamig rhwng pobl a lleoedd. Dwi’n hysbysebu mewn papurau lleol yn chwilio am gyfranogwyr sydd â diddordebau traddodiadol dwi’n ffeindio’n ddiddorol. Mae’r gweithiau delweddau symudol tua deng munud o hyd ac yn cynnwys cyfweliadau gyda’r cyfrannwr yn eu hamgylchedd. Mae’r bobl dwi’n gweithio â nhw yn wybodus, ecsentrig neu’n neilltuol yn eu ffyrdd eu hunain, er enghraifft, clocwyr yn eu stiwdios wedi’u hamgylchynu gan glociau, seicigs yn cynnal ‘seance’ mewn seler oriel gelf, a bridwyr colomennod yn aros i’w colomennod hedfan adref i glwydo.

 

 

Awake

Early Days

I'm Just so F*cking Happy

Dead Sea

Eyes. Sea.

Sad Mermaid

The Wrong Skin

Evening Swim

MarRage

This Must Be Underwater Love

My cat died and this is where he used to sit

Rock portraits

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