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The Dingle (part 2) |
artist(s):
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Dominic Clare |
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Llangefni [north Wales] |
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July 2003 |
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In a project to improve access to the woodlands and Local Nature Reserve known as The Dingle or Nant y Pandy in the centre of Llangefni, Anglesey, a local partnership including Cwmni Tref Llangefni, Cydcoed, the Isle of Anglesey County Council, Cywaith Cymru. Artworks Wales and local community groups has completed the first phase of a conservation and development programme that gives pride of place to a series of artworks by the three sculptors Nigel Talbot, Reece Ingram and Dominic Clare. The artworks comprise of three gateway sculptures and individual works, all complementing the provision of wooden boardwalks, wheelchair access, new footbridges and a programme of woodland management. |
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Just a few hundred yards up the road towards Rhosmeirch and across the road to the town’s bowling green and tennis courts, Dominic Clare’s gateway sculpture signposts another entrance to the magic of the Dingle. Again, Dominic’s inspiration is the natural history of the area, and specifically plant life and their seeds. The archway to the entrance is based on a Chestnut leaf found in the Dingle, whilst the upright form behind a sturdy, chunky gate is based on the same leaf shape, but this time in a three dimensional version. In these works, Dominic has split the oak lengthways, revealing the beauty of the wood itself and reinforcing the feeling that the work presents an invitation to enter within and explore.
But Dominic has not confined his work to the entranceway. Almost by accident you will discover other sculptures, inspired by the local plant life – a Chestnut Bench, shaped by the natural curves of the branches of this piece of Chestnut which originally grew in the Dingle; a Lords and Ladies bench, inspired by the plant’s cluster of orange seeds; a Wood Anemone sculpture, based on the plant’s seed pods and carved in Cedar wood and scorched; the ‘Anther’ sculpture, based on the Wood Rush flowers that cascade down the hill and the Bluebell, based on the plant’s seed and carved in oak. Sturdy and robust, Dominic’s sculptures are a fitting celebration of the variety of plant life in the woodland.
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One of the strengths of the current project to reclaim and regenerate this local nature reserve, for local people and visitors, is that the artworks are not seen as supplementaries but as integral parts of a varied and inspiring experience.
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