Suit Project
The project was centred upon the farming community in West Wales. Peter was interested in exploring the current social and cultural landscape of farming through a socially engaged art project. He selected and work with five farmers representative of the type of agriculture within the Cardigan area. Asked the farmers to work in a formal business suit, with the aim of introducing a symbolic and surr...
Scratch
TRACE - THE CAT SHOW CARDIFF ART IN TIME International Performance Art 14th - 17th March 2007 Cardiff School of Art & Design [CSAD] University of Wales Institute Cardiff [UWIC] Sculpture Court & locations, CSAD Ointment - 'Scratch' Ointment responded to the courtyard environment of the college site. The group carried several hundred bales of straw through the building i...
Paintings
'Walker' - Materials: oil based pigments on birch plywood, laminated onto soft wood plywood forming a dense block. Untitled oval painting 2 (37.5 x 28.2 x 4cm) Materials: oil based pigments on birch plywood, laminated onto soft wood plywood forming a dense block. ...
Crwydro (wander)
This was a collaboration between artists' collectives Ointment and Boreal Art/Nature. A period of process-led expedition and exchange wandering the woodland and uplands of the Preseli hills. At the culmination of the project the work was shown at Clynfyw Countryside Centre Pembrokeshire. The work produced by Peter came together in the form of an installation consisting of drawings and artefacts cr...
2mph
'2mph', undertaken in the summer of 2002 involved walking continuously from Cardigan in West Wales to London, with fellow artist Simon Whitehead, a goose and a dog, tracing the old drovers roads. The aim of the project was to produce a deep map of the journey then present material at the ResCen Nightwalking festival of performing arts conference, London. For further information see www.untitedstat...
Eli
The project spanned the seasons between summer 2004-spring 2005. For each individual group member the process and research uncovered and created intense and productive outcomes. We met at regular points though out the year usually taking walks in West Wales traversing different habitats gathering small numbers of plants and herbs, from which we made ointment, maps, collected sound and video mat...
Walk With Me
Walk-With-Me is an on going artist led project to inspire people to walk, record and share their thoughts, images and experiences online. The thumb sticks are cut and made from the hedgerows in West Wales by Peter Bodenham. The sticks have been numbered and purposely placed in the world. Peter hopes individuals will steal these abandoned sticks, take them home, and be inquisitive and generous enou...
Drawings
Walker - ink drawing - 38 x 29 cm. Calvin & Nike - Pencil on wood 70.5 x 49cm Flaneur - ink on paper - size A1 Untitled - Pencil on wood - 50 x 35cm Home / Cartref - Pencil on wood - 100 x 126cm Gardner 1 pencil on wood 65cm x 49cm...
I have started to produce a series of small images printed onto luggage labels. The prints are boxed framed mounted on a white ground, placed off centre within the frame. The tile of this print is ‘walker’ a recurrent theme within the work. A friend recently quoted “walk and it will be solved” I’m unsure of the literary reference but it rings true. The framed prints are £265 - 1/100 i...
Sculpture
This spoonscape features a branch with carved spoons either end, architectural model trees, text and a accompanying drawing. The welsh text translates 'inhabit'. This form of small wall frames a method of making sculpture that keeps throwing up possibilities; it's an itch that steel needs scratching. ...