Alannah Harton

BA (Hons) Fine Art


My current work is a continuation from my dissertation, investigating the idea of post anthropomorphism through causality and human agency, enforcing the thought that art exists beyond the human and our anthropomorphic translations of nature.

By looking at natural causality as pieces of art work themselves, my work becomes a collection of documentation and studies. This is not an attempt to make something new, nor is to make a lasting alteration to the landscape, but to enforce the idea that natural causality is, in its own right, art work; to push the theory into the minds of the viewer that this existing phenomenon holds enough merit to be considered art.

Post anthropomorphic art work doesn’t mean that no human agency can take place, but that the work continues to progress or even cease to exist after the human influence has ended. There is no finished, final phase of this work, merely photographs and insights into how it appears at that moment in time before it changes once again.

My work is an attempt to bring better understanding of the landscape and natural causality, emphasising the importance of phenomenon’s that occur beyond the human, outside of our anthropomorphic views.


Mae fy ngwaith presennol yn barhad o’m traethawd hir ac mae’n ymchwilio i syniad ôl-anthropomorffaeth drwy achosiaeth a’r effaith ddynol, gan orfodi’r syniad bod celf yn bodoli uwchlaw priodoleddau dyn a’r rhai anthropomorffig o natur.

Drwy edrych ar achosiaeth naturiol yn ddarnau o waith celf eu hunain, daw fy ngwaith yn gasgliad o gofnodion ac o astudiaethau. Nid ymgais yw hon i wneud rhywbeth newydd ac nid yw’n ymgais ’chwaith i newid y dirwedd mewn ffordd barhaol ond yn hytrach i orfodi’r syniad bod achosiaeth naturiol o’i rhan ei hun yn waith celf; er mwyn gwthio’r ddamcaniaeth i feddyliau’r gwyliwr bod digon gan y ffenomenon yma sy’n bodoli eisoes i’w gymeradwyo iddo gael ei ystyried yn gelf.

Nid yw gwaith celf ôl-anthropomorffig yn golygu na fydd unrhyw effaith ddynol yn digwydd, ond bydd y gwaith yn parhau i symud ymlaen neu’n peidio â bod hyd yn oed wedi i’r dylanwad dynol ddod i ben. Does dim cyfnod gorffenedig i’r gwaith, dim ond ffotograffau ac enghreifftiau o fewnwelediad i sut mae pethau’n edrych ar y foment honno mewn amser cyn iddyn nhw newid unwaith eto.

Ymgais yw fy ngwaith i bobl gael deall y tirlun ac achosiaeth naturiol yn well, gan bwysleisio mor bwysig yw ffenomenau sy’n digwydd y tu hwnt i’r dynol a thu allan i’n safbwyntiau anthropomorffig ninnau.

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