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Angharad Pearce-Jones


" Branding the Land", 2005,
mixed media

Angharad was born in 1969 in Bala/North Wales. She studied 3D-Design at Brighton University and gained her BA(hons) in 1995. By 1999 she had completed her MA at University of Wales Institute, Cardiff .

She now lives and works near Ammanford/West Wales

Has exhibited at the Monrovian National Gallery, Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff and in Zagreb/Croatia

Statement: "Pearce-Jones creates large scale installations from a variety of dislocated and juxtaposed materials. Scaffold poles clothed in flock wallpaper signify the hurried veneering of the South Wales post industrial landscape. A huge signature of a landscape designer in red bizzy lizzies questioned issues of land ownership and human manipulation of the land. "Branding the Land" refers to the many ways in which the land at Middleton has been cultivated. When William Paxton owned Middleton he employed Samuel Lapidge to create a manufactured landscape of lakes and trees. This was no more ‘natural’ than the farmland of the estate – seemingly arbitrary clumps of trees were meticulously designed. Today the Botanic Garden and Norman Foster’s Dome, the Great Glasshouse, are a continuation of the cultivation of the land. Using red flowers to recreate a vast signature of Samuel Lapidge, Angharad Pearce Jones reminds us of the designer’s interventions in the landscape begun in 1785. By placing the signature onto the grassy bank of the Glasshouse, past interventions are linked with today's developments.
Another exhibit of hers is a 40ft tapestry made of metal meshing and dyed wool at the Abbey Woolen Mill in the Maritime and Industrial Museum by Bala-born Angharad Pearce Jones.