Algae’s where it’s at.
If you want to learn about seaweeds, try here for a the most common ones found around these shores. Or check out the Gwymona learning page for more info.
Gwymona was started by Kirsti Davies, as part of a 'Future Wales Fellowship', funded by Natural Resources Wales and run by Arts Council Wales. The fellowship is designed to better understand how art and culture can play a role in engaging people in key issues such as the climate and nature emergencies. You can find out more about the fellowship here.
Whilst searching for things to feel cheerful about in the face of an uncertain future, seaweed felt like a glimmer of hope. Its versatility and resilience was inspiring and its beautiful shapes and colours blew away the cobwebs.
Gwymona is all about collaboration between seaweed and people. Seaweed has so much to offer in the face of a climate/biodiversity/cost of living crisis and in return we should appreciate it and the oceans that sustain all life.
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As part of the fellowship, Kirsti will be organising talks, walks and food around the middle of March 2023, in Mid-Wales. Click here for more details.
Note on the content of this website. The ‘future’ aspect of this fellowship has stired up a lot of thought about the future of this planet but also the future of art and the role of the artist. Most of this website has been written by the author Kirsti Davies, but it has also used artificial intelligence (AI) to produce images and text (which is an fun process for me as I have Aphantasia and I pretend it’s my minds eye!). Where does the future of artists and designers fit with AI? Will we all be made redundant? Or does it free us up to go deeper, as it has in this project. The aim is to replace as many of the AI generated images with photos of real people, making real change and having real fun.
Please get in touch if you’re keen to collaborate, we’d much rather work with humans.
