Brynn Alred

BA (Hons) Artist Designer Maker

How can we create a coexistence with the climate we live in? As a maker and craftsman I seek to nurture an embodied connection with the environments we find ourselves in. Revealing connections between materials and land. Combining these with the people, plants and insects in urban environments to create beautiful collaborations and interventions.

Lighting: These pieces aim to be fun yet calming. Working with wool and felt has a healing effect for me, by massaging the fibres with hands to create a fluid web.

Wool is one of the most important materials on this island, as evidenced in Welsh flannel or Scottish tartan. With over 60 breeds of sheep in the UK, more breeds than any other country in the world. Sadly though wool is often discarded or burnt as we do not have the infrastructure or industry to use it anymore. This made it an obvious choice for making something that is both healing but also can be used for new and innovative applications.

Please scan the QR codes to find out which breed of sheep the wool is from


Socks, Albany Road to Roath park: Constructed from raw fleece from the Valleys. Scoured, carded, spun and knit into socks. I then wore the socks around my local area picking up the dirt in the street and feeling the streets I walk every day, only looking not touching… until now. The socks were an exercise in embodied connection; the land and history of where I live, through the wool. Re-embedding the socks after their production back into the realities of the urban environment many of us spend our days.

Sut y gallwn ni greu cydfodolaeth â’r amgylchedd rydyn ni’n byw ynddo? Fel gwneuthurwr a chrefftwr rwy’n ceisio meithrin cysylltiad ymgorfforedig â’r amgylcheddau o’n cwmpas. Datgelu cysylltiadau rhwng deunyddiau a’r tir. Cyfuno’r rhain â phobl, planhigion a phryfed mewn amgylchedd trefol i greu cydweithrediadau ac ymyrraeth hyfryd.

Goleuo: Bwriad y darnau yma yw bod yn hwyliog ond yn cynnig tawelwch. Mae gweithio gyda gwlân a ffelt yn cael effaith adferol arnaf, drwy anwytho’r ffibrau â’r dwylo i greu gwe hylifol.

Gwlân yw un o’r deunyddiau pwysicaf ar yr ynys hon, fel y gwelir wrth frethyn Cymreig a thartan Albanaidd. Gyda thros 60 brîd o ddefaid yn y DU, mwy nag unrhyw wlad arall yn y byd. Yn anffodus serch hynny, caiff gwlân ei daflu i ffwrdd yn aml neu ei losgi am nad yw’r isadeiledd na’r diwydiant gennym i’w ddefnyddio bellach. Roedd hyn yn ei wneud yn ddewis amlwg ar gyfer creu rhywbeth sy’n adferol ond y gellir ei ddefnyddio hefyd at ddiben arloesol.

Sganiwch y codau QR o ba frîd o ddefaid y daw’r gwlân

Sanau, Heol Albany i barc y Rhath: Lluniwyd o gnu amrwd o’r Cymoedd. Wedi’i sgwrio, ei gardio, ei nyddu a’i wau’n sanau. Gwisgais y sanau wedyn o gwmpas fy ardal leol gan gaglu’r baw yn y stryd a theimlo’r strydoedd rwy’n eu cerdded bob dydd, gan edrych yn hytrach na chyffwrdd … tan nawr. Roedd y sanau yn ymarfer mewn cysylltiad ymgorfforedig; Y tir a hanes yr ardal lle rwy’n byw, drwy’r gwlân. Ail-wreiddio’r sanau wedi’u cynhyrchu yn ôl i realiti’r amgylchedd trefol lle mae llawer ohonom yn treulio ein dyddiau.


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