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1. AMGYLCHEDD ARLUNWYR CYMREIG AC ERAILL

2. Iwan Balawww.iwanbala.com • Mae fy ngwaith yn ymdrin a   thirwedd, tirwedd diwylliant, cof, dychymyg. Tirwedd hunaniaith. R'wyf yn ymdrechu i ymchwilio ac i greu ryw fath o fap o'r tirwedd personol yma, fy ynys fechan, er mwyn ei lleoli o fewn tirwedd ehangach y byd mawr". • My work attempts to define the cultural particularity that I was born with, the language, myths, history and poetry. In a multicultural world, I am aware also of the fragility of all core cultural identities, just as I am aware of the fragility of the landscape and ecology of the places we live in, and the barren materialism of much of our lives.

4. BRENDAN STUART BURNSwww.brendanstuartburns.co.uk • A close relationship with the Pembrokeshire Coast has provoked a large and ongoing series of paintings. • The concept of space, both actual and pictorial; implications of time and place; issues within movement, weather and light; alongside gesture, glimpse and memory are requisite themes within these paintings.

5. Her work explores her experiences of alienation, secrecy, sadness and joy. She uses images of doorways and windows as symbols for the expression of these private experiences. She works with recycled materials and objects which she perceives as containing their own histories. Sarah Bettswww.oriel.org.uk

6. "When I was younger I always intuitively recognised the spirit of the place - in dwellings especially - "This is a happy place". "This is a sad place". I always felt that it was history, the people who had been there, that created this spirit. Currently, I'm living in a place where I've had a lot of problems - a bad neighbour, screaming and fighting geese, cum-backing guinea fowl - to name but a few. I find myself wondering whether its the History of the place or the present that's creating its spirit - I'm LEAVING". Gwenllian Beynonwww.artinwales.com

7. Garner's evocative assemblages deal with the disposability of people. Objects and images from everyday life are used to make works that reflect upon injustice and inequality, particularly with regard to refugees and displaced people. Recycled, discarded materials salvaged from our throwaway society are bundled, creating packaged belongings, packaged lives. DAVID GARNERwww.axisweb.org

8. At the age of 90 Giardelli is still "creating the subtle and poetic relief constructions for which he is best known. Abstract in form, these echo the shifting of the seasons, the wind's energy, or the movements of the tide. They are made from evocative found materials, both man-made and natural, each of which brings its own history and associations. ARTHUR GAIRDELLI

9. "His graffiti inspired paintings and drawings seem to reference TV, overheard conversations or bits of information heard whilst tuning the radio. What we are left with is a mass of arguing mark making that leaves the viewer unsure of how and when to proceed. Howells' work seems a sprawling living 'thing' that has a life of its own" (quoted from Ffresh 3, an exhibition at Chapter/G97 in March 2002). NEALE HOWELLS

10. I paint about the studio, the kitchen, the artist, my children, childhood memories. So imaginative and observational elements co-exist in each work" SHANI RHYS JAMES

11. Her work attempts a distillation of the landscape, seeks to capture its physical being, complete with scars, while revealing its history and - curiously, in works from which the human figure is always absent - showing our relationship to the land past and present. ' MARY LLOYD JONES

12. In my studio, I work surrounded by things: wire which reminds me of hair, real hair and synthetic; horse hair, sheep's wool, muslin, felt, rope, paper; all sorts really. LOIS WILLIAMS

13. Earth art (also called "land art") refers to a movement of artists with wide ranging goals, but all created in nature, employing such materials as stones, dirt, and leaves. Most works are sculptural. ARLUNWYR: Robert Smithson Andy Goldsworthy Walter De Maria Chris Dury Richard Long GWAITH TIR

14. Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973), Spiral Jetty, 1970, black basalt rocks, earth and salt crystals, coil: 1,500 x 15 feet, stretching out counterclockwise into the translucent red water of Great Salt Lake, UT. As yet this has not been done. Spiral Robert Smithson

15. Andy Goldsworthy, one of Two Oak Stacks, 2003, two large balls of stacked and knitted oak sticks, Storm King Art Center, NY. This ball of sticks is directly outside the museum building, visible through the window of the gallery where the other identical ball of sticks was constructed and exhibited Andy Goldsworthy

16. Walter De Maria (American, 1935-), The New York Earth Room, 1977, an interior earth sculpture: 250 cubic yards of earth (197 cubic meters), 3,600 square feet of floor space (335 square meters), 22 inch depth of material (56 centimeters), total weight of sculpture: 280,000 lbs. (127,300 kilos), Dia Center for the Arts, 141 Wooster Street, New York City. Walter De Maria

17. Richard Long (English, 1945-), A Line Made by Walking, 1967, photograph and pencil on board, image: 37.5 x 32.4 cm, Tate Gallery, London. Long created this earth work by walking back and forth along the same line in a grassy field in Somerset, England, wearing away a thin path, which lasted until the grass grew back again. Long took this photo of his work in order to document it. Richard Long

18. Tracey Emin’s My Bed, short-listed in autumn 1999 for the Turner Prize (plate 1), presents a base supporting a mattress, on top of which are rumpled sheets, pillows, panty-hose and a towel; cluttered alongside is an assortment of items from vodka bottles to slippers and underwear, cigarette packs to condoms and contraceptives, Polaroid (self)portraits to a white fluffy toy. Tracey Emin

21. This work was painted while Van Gogh was working in the company of Gauguin at Arles. It was retouched early in 1889. Van Gogh painted a companion picture of Gauguin's armchair, shown by night, now in the Rijksmuseum Vincent Van Gogh, Amsterdam. The two paintings may have been intended to represent the contrasting temperaments and interests of the two artists. Van Gogh