The sculptures of the Welsh artist John Meirion Morris (1936-2020) encompass a range of ‘spiritual’, ‘political’ and ‘cultural’ subjects, including a number of portaits of Welsh poets, portrayed in a way that brings the living presence of the awen into the hard materials of the sculptors craft.
His spiritual subjects often include references to mythological characters and objects such as the ‘Pair Dadeni’ (Cauldron of Rebirth) illustrated above, Gwydion’s Hudlath (magic wand), and studies of Rhiannon, Bran, and others characters from the Mabinogi.
Always engaged with the essence of his subjects rather than sentimental idealistion his shapes and materials achieve an uncompromising solidity rather than the ethereality that often characterises such subjects but their life shines through the apparently intractable matter of their construction.
A glimpse of this in the brief video and on his website referenced below.
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