Inside Out Art Group

land; terrain;earth;territory is one of the current exhibitions on at MOMA in Machynlleth and well worth seeing. This project has brought six professional visual artists from their native Celtic communities to live and work in a neighbouring culture, sharing ideas and skills with their Celtic cousins and developing their own work. On until 29th Feb.Moma Wales

There is some fascinating work by Catrin Williams who combines fabric, paint and textiles. I particularly liked the work of Jonathan Macleod who who discovered “links with Welsh music and birdsong…”

Of the five works he exhibits called Birdsong 1-5, I liked this particular one best. As someone who is fascinated with the multi sensory, it got me thinking about  how interesting it is to consider expressing one sense e.g. the aural with another e.g. the visual, as Macleod has done here. The elusive, fragile and transitory nature of birdsong is so well captured by the materials that he has used to make his work. This photograph hardly does the piece justice.

This has to be one of the best “found objects” of the century – especially as it is padlocked to the railing (one would have to cut out that section of the railing to exhibit it!) and just a few yards from the Museum of Modern Art in Machynlleth. I wonder if Saatchi would approve?  Remember the Saatchi programme where the artist who finally got to display her work in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg exhibited a piece of railing onto which a large chunk of tree had become impaled?