Y Celfyddydau

Mae Joseph Conran yn artist ac yn strategaethydd ym maes yr amgylchedd. Mae ei ymarfer yn byw yn y gofod rhwng pobl a byd natur, gan gyfeirio’n aml at brosesau naturiol fel ffordd o archwilio dynoliaeth. Yn ei waith artistig a strategol, mae Joseph yn creu gofodau lle gall creadigrwydd ysbrydoli pobl i feddwl yn ddyfnach am eu cysylltiad â byd natur, a’u rôl wrth warchod ei dyfodol.

Preswyliad celfyddydau gweledol— 10/05/25–24/05/25

Yn ystod ei breswyliad, datblygodd Joe ddau brosiect cydgysylltiedig a fydd yn cael eu datblygu ymhellach ar ôl dychwelyd i’r tir mawr. Cafodd y cyntaf ei ysbrydoli gan yr idiom Gymraeg a’r gerdd Bro gan T H Parry-Williams, gan archwilio ffyrdd newydd o fapio ac amlygu “esgyrn” lle. Llosgodd Joe fap o Enlli ar gynfas, gan ei haenu â deunyddiau, geiriau ac arsylwadau a gasglwyd ar yr ynys. Drwy weithdai gyda thrigolion, ymchwil yn yr Ysgol a’r Wylfa Adar, cyfunodd iaith bob dydd, myfyrdodau personol a therminoleg wyddonol i greu cofnod barddonol o le.

Defnyddiodd ei ail brosiect system ddosbarthu fotanegol Carl Linnaeus o’r 18fed ganrif a’r gerdd The Loves of the Plants gan Erasmus Darwin fel fframweithiau i archwilio ecoleg Enlli. Drwy astudiaeth fanwl o blanhigion lleol dan ficrosgop, crëwyd modelau cerfluniol bach sy’n ymgorffori ffurf, amgylchedd a symbolaeth gymdeithasol pob planhigyn, gan ail-lunio hanes naturiol yr ynys drwy lens gyfoes a beirniadol.

Tra’n Enlli, cynhaliodd Joe dri gweithdy a thair sesiwn stiwdio agored. Roedd y gweithgareddau’n cynnwys casglu geiriau, sylwadau a deunyddiau a gafwyd gan breswylwyr ac ymwelwyr fel rhan o’r ymchwil.

Sara Evelyn is a sound and interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans scenography,  composition, DIY electronics, instrument building and printmaking. Their work considers space, materiality, and site and is often created as a response to the acoustic or material elements of a specific place or environment.  

Dark Skies Residency with William Wyndham 24 -31st May 2025

Esyllt Angharad Lewis is an artist from Craig-Cefn-Parc. Her artwork plays with translation as an aesthetic medium. Her adaptation of Anthony Shapland’s novel ‘Lan Stâr’ (A Room Above a Shop) will be released in spring. She is a co-editor at Stamp Publications and won the Ifor Davies Award at the Pontypridd Eisteddfod 2024 for her performance, Blobus a Phryderon Eraill. 

Research and Development Residency with Catrin Menai 12th-19th July 2025  

Using a map of the island’s field names as a starting point, Catrin and Esyllt explored boundaries: of language, land, and perception – through tactile research and collective conversation. They read the fields by walking, sensing, and talking, straddling ways of knowing often kept separate… poetic and scientific, personal and ecological, spoken and written.  

“Imagining the Field” – a two-hour workshop combining a guided walk with reflection on language and landscape. Six participants. 

Catrin Menai is an artist based between Bethesda (north Wales) and Glasgow. She creates narrative-driven works using the communicative potential of everyday objects, gestures, and place. Through film, writing and found objects, and grounded as much in chance encounter as in close study, she explores ways of thinking with our world, considering care and love as a material space for knowledge-making. Her work has been exhibited at Mostyn and The Turner House, and published with Poetry Wales. She completed an MFA at the Glasgow School of Art in 2021. 

Research and Development Residency with Esyllt Angharad Lewis 12th-19th July 2025  

Using a map of the island’s field names as a starting point, Catrin and Esyllt explored boundaries: of language, land, and perception- through tactile research and collective conversation. They read the fields by walking, sensing, and talking, straddling ways of knowing often kept separate… poetic and scientific, personal and ecological, spoken and  “Imagining the Field” – a two-hour workshop combining a guided walk with reflection on language and landscape. Six participants

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www.catrinmenai.co.uk  

ArtesMundi  

Mae Rhian Haf yn creu gosodiadau a cherfluniau gan ddefnyddio rhinweddau cyferbyniol gwydr fel ffocws i’w gwaith. Mae hi wedi arddangos ei gwaith yn eang yn y DU a thramor.

Preswyliad Crefft 2–16 Awst 2025

Treuliodd Rhian bythefnos ar yr ynys yn edrych ar gysgodion, golau, gorwelion, planhigion ac ati. Crëodd gerflun ymatebol i’r safle: papur wedi’i frwsio ag olew ac wedi’i bwytho at ei gilydd

Tŷ Newydd – 30 darn wedi’u hysbrydoli gan y 30 corff a ddarganfuwyd yma rhwng 1993–98. Cafwyd hyd i 25 o feddau, gan gynnwys un gyda phump o blant. Awgrymodd arddull y claddu ddyddiadau canoloesol, ac roedd darn arian o’r 10fed ganrif yn un bedd. Cludwyd yr esgyrn oddi ar yr ynys ac nid ydynt wedi dychwelyd eto. Papur wedi’i oleuo ac ei wnïo.

Llewyrch – Wedi’u hysbrydoli gan olau’r gorwel – cysgodion, haenau, adlewyrchiadau. Crëais 30 darn o wydr, gan ddefnyddio technegau i archwilio golau a gofod.

Cyflwynodd Rhian weithdy collage gan ddefnyddio cysgodion planhigion i greu printiau a darluniau, ynghyd ag arddangosfa stiwdio ar ddiwedd y preswyliad.

www.rhianhaf.com

@_rhianhaf

Mae Huw Jones yn byw yn Rhoscolyn yn Ynys Môn, ac mae ei waith wedi’i wreiddio yng nghyffro tirluniau Ynys Môn ac Eryri. Mae ei broses greadigol yn dechrau yn yr awyr agored, gan ddal newidiadau byrhoedlog mewn golau, tywydd a thymhorau drwy frasluniau a pheintiadau mewn gouache, acrylic a chyfryngau cymysg. Yn y stiwdio, mae’n datblygu’r rhain yn weithiau gorffenedig, gan gadw bywiogrwydd a mynegiant y marciau gwreiddiol. Mae ei waith yn archwilio rhyngweithio lliw, gwead a chyfansoddiad, gan amlygu rhinweddau haniaethol a gofod negyddol. Nod Huw yw mynegi ymdeimlad dwfn o le a chysylltiad, gan greu gwaith celf sy’n gwahodd y gwyliwr i ymgysylltu â’u tirlun.

Preswyliad Celfyddydau Gweledol 26 Gorffennaf – 2 Awst 2025

Huw weithdy paentio du-a-gwyn

www.huwjonesart.co.uk

@huwgarethjones

Enlli and Lleucu are Dwy – a dynamic flute duo from Cardiff. They are musicians who combine their interests in folk music, traditional dance, classical music, and Welsh culture to produce work that incorporates electronic effects and extended techniques in performances that create a unique, energetic, and memorable sound. 

 In 2023, Dwy won a commission from the National Eisteddfod and the Arts Council to create an outdoor performance as part of the WYTH project, which would push the boundaries of traditional forms and bring clog dancing to new audiences. Since then, Dwy has enjoyed developing and expanding on this idea. 

Music and Performance Residency – 19th July – 2nd August 2025 

Dwy are the first musicians to take part in the Ynys Enlli residency programme and it was brilliant to hear their music being carried around the landscape on the sea breeze. 

They turned the studio into a recital space, then a clog dancing workshop and later in the week a stage for a show. They developed a piece that was then performed at the National Eisteddfod on 7 of August 2025. 

www.dwy.cymru  

@dwy.music 

Marged Tudur is a poet, writer, and editor from Morfa Nefyn and now lives in Caernarfon. She graduated in Welsh at Aberystwyth University, studied an MA in Creative Writing, and was awarded a PhD for her study on reading lyrics form Welsh pop songs from the last fifty years as literature.   She is one of the editors of Rhywbeth i’w Ddweud (‘Something to Say’, Cyhoeddiadau Barddas, 2017), a volume by various contributors that looks at the power of words by exploring influential political Welsh songs. 

 In 2020 she published her first volume of poetry, Mynd (‘Going’, Gwasg Carreg Gwalch), in which she discusses the experience of losing her brother. The volume won the 2021 Book of the Year award in the Poetry category and is selected to our 2021 Bookcase. 

Aled Rhys Jones  

Aled Rhys Jones works as a camera operator and director. 

Visual Arts Residency 30th August – 13th September 2025  

Together they will be collaborating on a short poetry film. While Marged was writing and walking, Aled was filming and recording sounds, above the waves, along edges of rocks, on the mountain, between two fields, near the lighthouse, in the houses, in the school, in the remains of the abbey – in sun, rain, wind and in the early hours of the morning. From filming time-lapses to filming in slow motion, he tried to document the landscape and the busy comings and goings of the people who live and work on the island. 

waleslitexchange.org/authors/tudur-marged  

@margedtudur 

Rebecca Thomas is a scholar and creative writer specialising in the history, culture, and literature of medieval Wales. Her main area of research explores how Welsh identities were constructed in medieval texts. Her book History and Identity in Early Medieval Wales (Boydell & Brewer, 2022) examines how names, territory, language, and origin legends shaped national identity. The book won the Francis Jones Prize for Welsh History (2022), and in 2023 she received the Learned Society of Wales’s Dillwyn Medal for contributions to the humanities. Her current British Academy–funded research focuses on hostages in medieval Wales and the political and cultural connections between Wales and the wider world. 

Alongside her academic work, Rebecca is also a creative writer and has published two medieval historical novels for young adults, Dan Gysgod y Frenhines (2022) and Y Castell ar y Dŵr (2023). In 2022 she was appointed Welsh Writer in Residence for Bannau Brycheiniog National Park, producing Anturiaethau’r Brenin Arthur (2024) in response to the nature and climate crises. Her essay Cribo’r Dragon’s Back won the inaugural O’r Pedwar Gwynt Essay Prize in 2021, and in 2025 she will be Artist in Residence in Ynys Enlli and one of the Hay Festival’s Writers at Work.

 Writing Residency 16th-30th August 2025  

David and Rebecca spent two weeks in Ynys Enlli as Resident Artists in August, continuing their research and writing on the island’s monks and saints. 

David Callander is a medievalist and literary scholar who specialises in early Welsh poetry and medieval Welsh literature. His research is comparative in nature, seeking to explore what can be learnt by bringing together distinct literary traditions, comparing Middle Welsh, Old English, Middle English, and medieval Latin texts. He also undertakes comparative research between vernacular and Latin texts from medieval Wales and other Celtic languages. His other areas of interest include examining how modern literary theory and medieval literature can mutually inform one another, and studying the post-medieval transformation of medieval texts. This was the focus of his latest book Trawsffurfio’r Seintiau (Transforming the Saints, University of Wales Press, 2024), based on the trilingual hagiographic anthology Yale, Osborn fb229.

Writing Residency 16th-30th August 2025  

David and Rebecca spent two weeks in Ynys Enlli as Resident Artists in August, continuing their research and writing on the island’s monks and saints!  

David Callander is a scholar working on medieval literature. He has dealt with the lives of Welsh saints from the Middle Ages, editing several texts for the seintiau.cymru project and publishing his latest book, Transforming the Saints: The Yale Manuscript of the Lives of the Saints. University of Wales Press, 2024 on this subject. Rebecca Thomas is a historian and novelist. She has published three young adult novels with Gwasg Carreg Gwalch and her first adult novel, Y Tŵr , was published by Sebra in April 2025. 

Richard Harris (b 1954, Devon) has been making environmental sculpture since 1976. While studying at Gloucestershire College of Art and Design, he chose to work outdoors, building structures from found stone and wood. After his studies, he spent a year based in a Dartmoor studio, further deepening his connection with nature. Harris rose to prominence as the first resident artist at Grizedale Forest in 1977, where he explored specific sites and worked with natural materials to create human-scale works encouraging subtle, intuitive interaction. From 1979–81 he travelled in Australia, becoming aware of Aboriginal relationships with the land, creating Hollow Hill, an earthwork in Melbourne. Returning to the UK, he was drawn to the north east’s growing public art scene, working on major projects in Gateshead and County Durham, including Passage Paving on London’s South Bank and a residency in Wuppertal, Germany. Since 1994, Harris has lived in Wales and worked widely across Europe, Japan, Korea, and Cuba. His sculptures often balance engineering precision and natural form, from polished stainless-steel poles elevating stones in the Weymouth Olympic sculpture to finely cut slate wings at the Senedd in Cardiff, each work reflecting and heightening awareness of its environment. 

Group Site Responsive Sculpture Residency 13 – 20th September 2025 

During his residency on Enlli, Richard Harris responded to the elemental force of wind and sea, creating work that reflected the movement, energy and harmony between land and water. Inspired by the piles of seaweed thrown ashore by the storm, he explored ideas of natural forms and hidden spaces, using stone and seaweed as his materials. His work became a live response to Enlli’s wild landscape, forming a direct connection between body, materials and the natural elements. 

Alison is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist working across performance, installation, and social engagement. Her work invites re-enchantment with the natural world through ritual moments, immersive journeys, and interactive installations. She reimagines spaces for performance and social connection with a strong focus on sustainability. The embodied, sensory relationship between audience, place, and story is central to her practice. Alison predominantly works in public spaces, inviting accidental encounters and moments of the unexpected within the everyday. Her recent work includes large-scale participatory performances and installations with Creative Folkestone, the National Trust, and the Kent National Landscape & Pas de Calais UNESCO Geopark bid. She was recently selected as one of eight Future Wales Fellows, supported by Arts Council Wales, Natural Resources Wales, and Peak Cymru. 

Group Site Responsive Sculpture Residency 13 – 20th September 2025 

During her residency in Ynys Enlli, Alison Neighbour developed a series of walking scores for the island, including night-time walks and journeys for day visitors, as templates for similar work elsewhere. She also continued to evolve her practice of “dancing with rocks”, building on work she had begun on the island in May and exploring how this could meet an audience. The week, shaped by a powerful storm that raged around the studio, also inspired new performance and sculptural work responding to the raw energy of the weather. 

Alison set out to discover what the wind might offer, to experience what it was like to greet the storm as it first struck the island. During her explorations, the tide gifted her a beautiful cloak of seaweed, five strands from one holdfast, each with long translucent fingers, asking to be worn and brought back to life. Together they faced the storm, holding fast in 50mph winds and letting the wind lead their movement in a dance between earth, sea, and air. Throughout the week, her thoughts turned to precarity and shelter, the fragile nature of existence and the island’s many forms of refuge, from rare lichens to young seals, fledgling birds, and human inhabitants. Later, the cloak was hung in Y Storws, a small building by the harbour, a place of shelter as they waited for the boat home, filled with the wild energy of possibility. 

www.alisonneighbourdesign.com 

@alisonneighbourart 

Jeanette Gray, originally from Scotland and now based in mid Wales, is a weaver and artist who specialises in working with wild, locally gathered plant materials. She began weaving in 2012 after attending her first willow basketry course – “love at first basket”! In 2017, she completed a two-year professional training in basketry at City Lit College in London and has since developed a sensitive practice that combines traditional techniques with environmental awareness. Her work centres on connecting people with the landscapes around them, using weaving as a way to explore the relationship between nature, community, and cultural heritage. She believes that weaving offers a tangible and reflective way to understand the value of the natural world, creating deep connections between ecology, culture, and people. 

Group Site Responsive Sculpture Residency 13 – 20th September 2025 

Jeanette’s stay on Ynys Enlli was cut short, and she was unable to fully realise her planned projects on the island. However, she continued to develop the work on the mainland, responding to the experiences and materials gathered during her time there. She plans to return in the future to complete the projects she began, continuing to explore the relationship between light, material, and landscape in response to the island’s unique environment. 

@Weaving_wild 
www.weavingwild.co.uk  

Bu Jo yn byw ac yn gweithio ar Enlli o 2007-2018 ac mae’n mwynhau defnyddio deunyddiau crai fel gwlân a helygen o’r ynys i wneud darnau defnyddiol a hardd. Mae Jo yn gwneud rygiau gwlân, basgedi helyg a nifer o eitemau ffelt; mae’r rhain ar gael i’w prynu yn ei siop ar yr ynys neu drwy ei gwefan.

Bu’r artist bywyd gwyllt Kim Atkinson yn byw ar yr ynys am saith mlynedd cyntaf ei bywyd ac eto am ddeng mlynedd yn yr 1980au a’r 90au. Mae ei gwaith wedi ei arddangos ar hyd a lled Cymru a Lloegr ac oherwydd ei henw da fel artist cafodd ei gwahodd i weithio mewn llawer rhan o’r byd gan gynnwys Awstralia a Gwlad Pwyl. Mae delweddau nodweddiadol Kim i’w gweld ar lawer o’r nwyddau a werthir yn y siop.

Bu’r artist, awdur a bardd Brenda Chamberlain yn byw yng Ngharreg o 1947 i 1962. Roedd yn gyfnod hynod o gynhyrchiol yn ei bywyd. Yn ystod y cyfnod hwn enillodd Fedal Aur Celf yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol ddwywaith. Mae modd gweld rhai o’r murluniau a beintiodd ar waliau Carreg hyd y dydd heddiw, ac ysbrydolwyd amryw o’i pheintiadau a’i lluniau gan yr ynys, yn ogystal â’i nofel Tide Race: 1962, yn ei bumed argraffiad – Seren, Mawrth 2019.