Gwyrdh Glas Workshops
AS PART OF FLAMM BY CREATIVE KERNOW
During these workshops facilitated by local artist Sovay Berriman we will share thoughts on identity & Cornwall, and then using the reclaimed materials available such as cardboard, paper and cloth to make ‘rubbish sculptures’. Through the practical art-making Sovay invites the identity conversations to flow in a slightly different way. We will draw inspiration from the granite forms of carns of Kernow/Cornwall such as Carn Brea, The Hurlers, Trencrom and Rough Tor and are titled Gwyrdh Glas – Liwyow a Gernow / Colours of Cornwall.
We will paint the rock sculptures in colours that connect to our identities and relationships with the rocks of Kernow, and we’ll name these colours in Kernewek/Cornish. If a fitting word does not exist, we will create one through conversation and use of Kernewek/Cornish dictionaries loaned to the project by Kowethas an yeth Kernewek.
The colours and their words will be collected in a sample book – Liwyow a Gernow (Colours of Cornwall) which will be added to the MESKLA | Brewyon Drudh archive, and offered to the Cornish Language Office to contribute to the gelyver kernewek (Cornish Dictionary). The Cornish Language Service will adjust the names we’ve created to ensure they ‘make-sense’ within the linguistic rules of the language.
Both the rock-sculptures and the sample book of colours will be included in Sovay’s exhibition Gwyrdh Glas as part of Flamm in Redruth 21st-22nd October. If they agree, participants names will be included in the details of the project, and the MESKLA | Brewyon Drudh PEOPLE page.
Workshops are sometimes drop-in, and sometimes bookable, please see each listing for details.
Sat 7th October | Krowji, as part of the Fun Palaces weekend
Tues 10th October 11am – 1pm | The Shire Hall, IntoBodmin for Hospital Rooms’ Cornwall Project
Sat & Sun 21st & 22nd October | Flamm Cornwall open drop-in. Location: Market Hall, Market Way, Redruth, TR15 2AU
Fri & Sat 27th & 28th October | Lowender Festival, Redruth
For more info about Sovay Berriman, the workshops and events please visit https://sovayberriman.co.uk/MESKLA-workshops
CORE is being presented as part of a multi-layered programme of exhibitions and events. Supported by Art Night, Counterpoints Arts, Creative Kernow, Cultivator, Good Growth, Levelling Up, Shared Prosperity Fund and Cornwall Council. Part of the Platforma festival 2023, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England.
