About the Exhibition

Oriel Wrecsam is delighted to announce Segrgrair, an exhibition of new work by Paul Eastwood as part of its PERICLO programme.

Paul Eastwood works across text, sculpture, performance, video, drawing, printmaking and textiles. He is primarily concerned with how objects and people occupy architectural space and the built environment, and how objects have the potential to communicate cultural identity.

Segrgrair follows a research project exploring what message/stories Welsh speakers would chose to leave for future generations if the Welsh language was to become extinct in a hundred years and to identify the cultural signifiers of Wales. The project had particular focus on Welsh identity within Welsh crafts and cultural artefacts, questioning whether Welshness could reside within objects. A further research trip, to Chandigarh, explored the city Le Corbusier designed for an independent India. This research project grew out of the desire to study how we are governed by the buildings we occupy and how architecture can suggest the aspirations of cultural identity.

Artists

Paul Eastwood