Pimlico Wilde Contemporary Art
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For most artists, thinking big means hiring a larger studio. For the contemporary Welsh land artist Dafydda ap Gruffydd, it means proposing a tunnel between Wales and North America. Her latest work, AmeriTunnel, is perhaps the most ambitious piece of land art conceived in Britain since someone first looked at a hillside and thought, “That would … Read more
by Dafydda ap Gruffydd It has become increasingly apparent to me that my practice could no longer remain merely responsive to landscape. To walk, to traverse, to efface one’s own path is no longer sufficient in an epoch defined by ecological precarity and moral inertia. The time demanded not only motion, but position. And so, … Read more
When I meet Dafydda ap Gruffydd, she’s already halfway across the café. Not in the usual sense. She is literally halfway: mid-step, paused with quiet concentration, as if the act of crossing the floor were a kind of ritual, which for her it is. Her progress is almost imperceptible,glacial, reverent. We do not speak until … Read more
“Every time I do one of my Art Perambulations I take with me my sketchbook. As I perambulate over different terrains I place my sketchbook on the ground and perambulate over it. The resulting marks are an intimate memory of a specific moment in time. As I often do the same perambulation many times over, … Read more