Rhys Cockell

BA (Hons) Fine Art

Rhys Cockell

My work is Currently exploring My Idea of synthetic masculinity, the idea that masculinity in its traditional ideals can be manufactured or performed in some way. The work explores the stereotypes of masculinity through material and form but also though the use of irony.

As a queer artist, I find masculinity interesting and complicated to self identify. its something that I perhaps flutter in and dont always conform to, and I find as Ive explored my own queerness my urge to confirm to traditional masculinity is looser than what it has been in the past. The work explores This masculine fluidity through an ironic performative masculinity.


Ar hyn o bryd, mae fy ngwaith yn archwilio fy syniad o wrywdod synthetig, y syniad y gall gwrywdod yn ei ddelfrydau traddodiadol gael ei greu neu ei berfformio mewn rhyw ffordd. Mae’r gwaith yn archwilio stereoteipiau gwrywdod drwy ddeunydd a ffurf ond hefyd drwy ddefnyddio eironi.

I mi, fel artist ‘queer’, mae gwrywdod yn ddiddorol ac yn gymhleth mewn perthynas â hunaniaeth. Mae’n rhywbeth nad wyf bob amser yn cydymffurfio ag ef, ac wrth i mi archwilio fy hunaniaeth fy hun, rwy’n gweld bod fy awydd i gydymffurfio â gwrywdod traddodiadol yn llacach na’r hyn a fu yn y gorffennol. Mae’r gwaith yn archwilio’r hylifedd gwrywaidd hwn drwy wrywdod perfformiadol eironig.

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