This work was made during an artist’s residency in Wales and explores the relationship between Welsh mythology, cultural identity and the visual residues found the landscape. Through image making Childerley investigates how mythology has been co-opted as a part of the national identity and how stories and characters have been manipulated to political ends.
The landscapes are site specific, of places where events in Welsh myth and story are said to have occurred. She also made portraits in the landscape with people in places they knew to be of mythological significance and poignant to their own lives. There is a timeless quality to the images alongside reference to contemporary contentions such as the military fly zones, nuclear power and reservoirs that serve English cities.
The photographs are snapshots across time, from sites, which have barely changed in a thousand years to others that are more modern inventions, considering the way myth and story are being memorialised in Welsh culture today.
