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Mawddach…
Out of love, respect and adoration I have shortened the residency to first name only, my Madonna, Beyonce, Britney. I am indebted to Scarlett, Jake, Toby and my wonderful co-AIR Jo Stapleton for creating the space for such a productive, insightful and exploratory two weeks in Eyri national park. I began my trip with a particular agenda; Go slow, play with texture in my textile practice and play with abstracting layers from a style of ‘almost touching / almost intimate’ between panelled layers to an intersection and interweaving of layers. I did all these things and more and spent my time reading and thinking about The Tain, the Mabinogion (which I can’t pronounce yet) and other local fairy and dragon lore. My highlight was a visit from Ffion Watkin Philips who came to tell Welsh stories at Barmouth Dragon Theatre with other local storytellers. Understanding the cultural memory of fairy stories and recognising the way this also presses across the UK really meant a lot to me. My practice involves textiles but also animation and ritual based installations that move between nonsense and trying to link into a universal experience. Increasingly I have a desire to echo in more of UK’s pagan heritage. So to meet the fairies head-on in the local woodlands on my walks to Arthog waterfall, to fantasise about dragons buried deep under wells under local mountains, and to look out at the estuary each day disappearing into the mist and the mountains, has been incredibly informative. As slow practices go, my residency work is not yet finished but I expect it to be ready for my show Moon Witual which opens IMMINENTLY, (yelp) in London at Batsford Gallery on 21 March 2026 - 22 March 2026. The show especially features a question I have been toying with over the last 6 months in thinking about our planet’s Moon being something between a poetic mirror and an active Kali type force on our lives. It is a public participatory performance piece that also includes an archive-image film called 18.6 Crash and new textile works made during my time at Mawddach. Katie King website
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