Saturday 21st February 2pm
Join artist Penny Hallas as she gives us a tour around her latest exhibition Sighting at elysium gallery. This will be followed with a talk by geologist and geopark officer Alan Bowring on Deep Time.
FREE ENTRY
ALL WELCOME
Alan Bowring: Deep Time
An earth scientist by training, Alan worked in practical nature conservation and countryside access in the north of England before moving to south Wales 19 years ago to take up a role with the (then) Brecon Beacons National Park Authority, developing the Fforest Fawr Geopark. Interests in history, language and maps inform his conversations with artists and scientists. Drawing together different strands, he frequently engages audiences in landscape history – both indoors and in the field – encompassing stories of Nature’s role in deep time and the attentions of our own species so much more recently. Once a keen rock-climber and caver, you’re more likely to find him now hunting down some obscure piece of industrial archaeology in the borderlands of industrial and agricultural Wales.
Alan Bowring: Amser Dwfn
Gwyddonydd daear wrth ei hyfforddiant, gweithiodd Alan ym maes cadwraeth natur ymarferol a mynediad i gefn gwlad yng ngogledd Lloegr cyn symud i dde Cymru 19 mlynedd yn ôl i ymgymryd â rôl gydag Awdurdod Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog gan ddatblygu Geoparc y Fforest Fawr. Mae diddordebau mewn hanes, iaith a mapiau yn llywio ei sgyrsiau gydag artistiaid a gwyddonwyr. Gan dynnu linynnau gwahanol ynghyd, mae’n aml yn ymgysylltu cynulleidfaoedd â hanes tirwedd – dan do ac yn y maes – gan gwmpasu straeon am rôl Natur mewn amser dwfn a sylw ein rhywogaethau ein hunain gymaint yn fwy diweddar. Ar un adeg yn ddringwr creigiau ac ogofâu brwd, rydych chi’n fwy tebygol o’i weld nawr yn hela rhyw ddarn anamlwg o archaeoleg ddiwydiannol yn derfynau diwydiannol ac amaethyddol Cymru.