Oriel Archipelago is a studio and occasional gallery/event space in the estuary village of Llansteffan, Carmarthenshire.
Oriel Archipelago uses the physicality of an archipelago – a cluster of distinct but connected islands – as a metaphor under which to reframe and create relationships between a diverse range of practices.
Residency : Peter Arthur Moon. 4th-10th November 2024
Peter Moon is a musician, composer and film maker from Cornwall.
Peter has a background in the field of performance art and music. He is a member of the celebrated post rock band Held by Trees and the Cornish Jungian themed Unknown Replica. He is also an award winning writer, lecturer and recently, a film director. Working from his studio The Ambience Factory in Truro, Cornwall, he also scores music and create soundscapes for films.
Peter’s interest lies between the intersections of ancient ritualistic landscapes, hauntology, psychogeography, folklore and the fading languages of Breizh, Kernow, and the living language of Cymru
His work is rooted within modern and ancient Brythonic folklore, science, science fiction and psychological horror. Artistic responses may be returned in the formats of story, film - in a modern context, sound, documentary along with music.
During his artist residency at Oriel Archipelago, Peter intends to immerse himself in Welsh folklore both ancient, in the form of written history and landscape and modern, exploring, recording and reinterpreting landscapes and mysteries of The Welsh Triangle, the UFO incidents reported during the 1970s. Whether real or imagined, he is interested in how they became modern folklore and what that means to the people of Wales.
The residency will let him further develop an understanding of the similarities between the Brythonic cultures of Brittany, Cornwall and Wales.
The outcomes will depend on the findings, but Peter foresees a Welsh folklore and science fiction investigation themed script to be translated into Welsh along with 16mm film capture and tests, Super 8mm film of Standing stones/Meini hirion and a factual podcast.
Peter wishes to make connections to film makers in Wales with a view to creating a collaborative Cornish / Welsh project.
Exhibition: Crossings and Driftings/ Croesi a Crwydro
Vera Boele-Keimer and Sarah Rhys. 18th November - 1st December 2024
Crossing the Line I (2024) Vera Boele- Keimer 2024
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Oriel Archipelago. Studio and Art Gallery, Llansteffan, Carmarthen SA335JT
