State of the Estate 2009. Penpont, Brecon.

A large group show to celebrate the development of the Penpont Estate. Several artists were invited to choose a site within the estate and make a piece of work about the development and restoration of the estate.

Enchanted Tree
Enchanted Tree

Enchanted Tree

In fairytales, objects, people and places can be transformed into another state. In this work I am exploring the idea of an imaginary fairytale and have transformed a plane tree into an apple tree. Apples often occur in fairytales. They can be used as a prop, a device or a lure. They carry symbolic meaning of a very ancient kind. In this piece the apples themselves have been through a transformation. In the process of making some of them have emerged from a great heat curiously changed. Some would be classified as windfalls, while others have grown in size and acquired colours never before seen in apples.

The structure surrounding the tree is a fairytale thicket. Its role is to provide protection and nurture for the tree.

The Penpont Estate is itself in just such a state of protection, transformation and nurture.

A is for apple and B is for beautiful.

Apple
Apple
Gilded apple
Gilded apple
Pink apple
Pink apple