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Artists in Residence: Fern Thomas, Adele Vye and Owen Griffiths

FAO is a three person collaborative group founded in 2005 based in Swansea who formed after graduating from Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University in 2005 by members Fern Thomas, Adele Vye and Owen Griffiths. All prize winners from Welsh Artist of the Year, 2009.

Although their individual practices differ, their strategy of working and reasoning for creating work has allowed for a collaborative practice that brings together through cross pollination a fascinating and eclectic practice held together at its core by their shared social and environmental concerns. The three person collective focus on interactive and participatory art, often with an emphasis on environmental concerns.

Work can take the form of interactive actions and live events, through to drawing, photographically documented actions and discussion.  Through their residency in Aberystwyth, FAO hope to make new work through intensive dialogues and experimentation within their strategies of working.

Grŵp cydweithredol â 3 aelod a sefydlwyd yn 2005 ac sy’n dod o Abertawe yw FAO.  Ffurfiwyd y grŵp ar ôl i’r aelodau, Fern Thomas, Adele Vye ac Owen Griffiths, raddio o Brifysgol Brookes Rhydychen yn 2005  Maent i gyd yn enillwyr Gwobr Artist y Flwyddyn Cymru 2009.

Er bod eu gwaith unigol yn wahanol, mae eu strategaeth o ran gweithio a’u rhesymeg greadigol yn golygu eu bod wedi llwyddo trwy drawsbeilliad i greu ffurf ar eu hymarfer sy’n cael ei ddal at ei gilydd gan ystyriaethau cymdeithasol ac amgylcheddol creiddiol sy’n cael rhannu ganddynt i gyd. Mae’r garfan gydweithredol hon yn canolbwyntio ar gelf ryngweithiol a chyfranogol. Yn aml, ceir pwyslais ar faterion amgylcheddol.