Elinor Williams

BA (Hons) Artist Designer Maker


I believe that art should be an experience, where the viewer interacts and explores the installation space and the work within it. As an artist, I strive to create work that is able to evoke emotions and awaken the senses of the viewer, which I believe, makes an installation effective. Artists such as Yayoi Kusama, and her infinity mirror installations and Tara Donovan, with her use of everyday objects, have vastly inspired my own work over the years. The natural world has also been a major influence in my art, and crystal caves specifically, are the main source of inspiration for my final piece.

Paper is the main medium of my work, as it is a mundane, everyday material that society tends to hold no value to or see no beauty in. The relationship between paper and light is the focus of my work. The installation consists of paper that, through scoring, folding and manipulating, form into organic, tubular structures that have a likeness to naturally formed crystals.
The fluid but clean forms emit a glow as the light diffuses through the layers of the paper. An ethereal atmosphere is created, as the light transforms the shapes, and the beauty of the paper is highlighted. The forms have a sense of depth and dimension, as well as fragility once lit, and they almost don’t even resemble the material, paper, anymore. The paper used in the installation is handmade by myself, using only found scraps and offcuts of paper.


Rwy’n credu y dylai celf fod yn brofiad lle y bydd y gwyliwr yn rhyngweithio ac yn archwilio gofod y gosodiad a’r gwaith o’i fewn. Gan fy mod yn artist, rwy’n ceisio creu gwaith sy’n gallu ennyn emosiynau a deffro synhwyrau’r gwyliwr sydd yn fy marn i yn gwneud y gosodiad yn effeithiol. Mae artistiaid megis Yayoi Kusama a’i gosodiadau Infinity Mirrors a Tara Donovan a’i defnydd hithau o wrthrychau bob dydd wedi bod yn ysbrydoliaeth enfawr yn fy ngwaith i fy hunan dros y blynyddoedd. Mae’r byd naturiol yn ddylanwad mawr yn fy nghelf hefyd ac ogofeydd grisial yn benodol yw’r brif ysbrydoliaeth ar gyfer fy narn olaf.

Papur yw prif gyfrwng fy ngwaith gan ei fod yn ddefnydd cyffredin bob dydd na fydd cymdeithas yn tueddu i roi dim gwerth iddo na gweld unrhyw harddwch ynddo. Y berthynas rhwng papur a golau yw ffocws fy ngwaith, mae’r gosodiad yn cynnwys papur sydd drwy ei sgorio, ei blygu a’i drin yn ffurfio darnau tiwbaidd organig sy’n debyg i grisialau sydd wedi’u ffurfio yn naturiol.
Mae’r ffurfiau hylifol ond glân yn loyw wrth i’r golau dryledu drwy’r haenau papur. Caiff awyrgylch etheraidd ei greu wrth i’r golau drawsnewid y siapiau a chaiff harddwch y papur ei amlygu. Mae ymdeimlad o ddyfnder a dimensiwn i’r ffurfiau yn ogystal â breuder wedi eu cynnau. Ac o’r braidd y byddan nhw hyd yn oed yn ymdebygu i’r deunydd, papur, mwyach. Mae’r papur a ddefnyddiwyd yn y gosodiad wedi’i wneud â’r llaw gennyf i fy hun gan ddefnyddio dim ond darnau o dor-papur a phytiau y des i ar eu traws fy hun.

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