Re-emergence

‘Re-emergence: Concerning memory and place’ was an event/exhibition which took place at Newton House, Dinefwr, Llandeilo from July 7th to August 31st 2012.

This was a site specific work with the main event being a night time projection.

The project is documented on Land2 where the moving images are viewable.

Projection night 2012. Photo credit Frank Menger

The exhibition and moving image is a response to a room, now semi ruined, which was once surrounded by a painted frieze of reclining female figures, known as ‘The Painted Ladies’ during the second world war when Dynevor (now known as Newton House) was requisitioned as a military hospital.

The murals were completely eroded by the elements decades ago, when the courtyard roof caved in after the house had come close to dereliction.

Sarah wished to create a re-enchantment of the derelict space using moving image and projection., she was interested in what Gaston Bachelard describes as the ‘intimate immensity’ of childhood memory, this combined with black and white negatives kindly lent to her by the photographer John Bulmer.

Bulmer had visited Dynevor during the Arts Festivals seasons that were run there from 1966-68 documenting the rehearsals for the music productions. However he also photographed interiors and outbuildings at the same time including, thankfully, these now lost murals.