Dan Rees

Exhibition

Dan Rees

Kelp
26 October - 5 January 2014

MOSTYN I Wales is delighted to present an exhibition titled Kelp by Swansea-born artist Dan Rees. Rees’ starting point for Kelp is his own love of laverbread, which he regularly has sent from Wales to his studio in Berlin.

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Rees’ starting point for Kelp is his own love of laverbread, which he regularly has sent from Wales to his studio in Berlin. He believes that laverbread, a seaweed based food, has yet to get the attention it deserves. This is especially true when considering the trade of seaweed in other countries, particularly in Asia where it has been a food staple for centuries.
This approach to national identity and Wales’ heritage is entirely characteristic of Rees’ other works, which have regularly drawn from the particularities of his upbringing, his background and his place of birth. His response to place and time, as well as issues of memory, the everyday and, often, the context of art itself is used almost as a medium in its own right, in his diverse artworks that range from painting, drawing, sculpture and sound based pieces.

Through a number of different approaches – amongst them packaging design, photography, sculpture and satirical cartoons– Kelp sees Wales’ trade of seaweed and laverbread rethought, reconsidered, and appealing to the modern day consumer.

 

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Organised in partnership with Amgueddfa Cymru- National Museum Wales and supported by the Colwinston Charitable Trust.