Spineless Wonders: making spineless wonder books

Considering the book as a permeable container, we’ll be exploring physical gestures such as folding, cutting, tearing, collaging, tracing, and erasing, to create sequences held within its form.

The workshop will be led in English and Welsh by visual artist Catrin Menai and print specialist Harriet Fuller.

All materials will be provided, but you're invited to bring any papers, fragments, notes, or found elements you feel drawn to incorporate into the process.

Catrin Menai is an artist and writer from Wales, whose narrative-driven work draws on everyday objects, gestures, and place. Working with film, writing, and found materials, she brings together poetic fragments and archival sources in conversation with languages, eras, and geography.

Harrie Fuller is a fine artist, printmaker and technician whose practice is informed by gathering objects, imagery and inspiration from daily life and adventures along the coast. She primarily uses photography, screen-print and drawing to translate these experiences into bold, colourful artwork.

Image credit: Tango in Stanzas by Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch

Gan ystyried y llyfr fel cynhwysydd athraidd, byddwn yn archwilio ystumiau corfforol megis plygu, torri, rhwygo, coladu, olrhain a dileu, i greu dilyniannau sy’n cael eu cadw o fewn ei ffurf. Caiff y gweithdai eu harwain trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg a’r Saesneg gan yr artist gweledol Catrin Menai a Harriet Fuller sy’n arbeniglo ar argraffu.

Darperir yr holl ddeunyddiau'n cael eu darparu, ond fe'ch gwahoddir i ddod ag unrhyw bapurau, darnau, nodiadau, neu elfennau rydych chi wedi’u canfod ac yn teimlo y dylid eu cynnwys yn y broses.

Artist ac awdur o Gymru yw Catrin Menai. Naratif sy’n gyrru ei gwaith a daw ysbrydoliaeth o wrthrychau, ystumiau a llefydd sy’n rhan o fywyd pob dydd. Gan weithio gyda ffilm, ysgrifennu a deunyddiau mae hi’n eu canfod, daw Catrin â darnau barddonol a ffynonellau archifol ynghyd mewn sgwrs gydag ieithoedd, cyfnodau amser a daearyddiaeth.

Mae Harrie Fuller yn artist, gwneuthurwr printiau a thechnegydd cain. Caiff ei gwaith ei lywio gan ddelweddau, casglu gwrthrychau ac ysbrydoliaeth o fywyd bob dydd ac anturiaethau ar hyd yr arfordir. Mae hi'n defnyddio ffotograffiaeth, sgrin-brint a lluniadu yn bennaf i drosi'r profiadau hyn yn waith celf beiddgar, lliwgar.

Credyd delwedd: Tango in Stanzas gan Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch

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