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Cronicl Chwech: Mae Dal Angen Godro’r Gwartheg

Since June 2024

Chronicle Six: The Cows Still Need To Be Milked

My life is in the land, in the names of fields,

in the clouds that ghost across the evening sky.

All I have is held by the land, yeah.

Project Details
Creative Team
  • Artist: Mark Storor
  • Producer: Emily Gee

Wedi ei gynhyrchu ar Ynys Môn, mae Cronicl Chwech yn gymysgedd teimladwy a llawn angerdd ac yn gyfres o sgyrsiau gyda ffermwyr lleol ac aelodau o’r cyhoedd. Di flewyn ar dafod, o’r galon a dŵys. Casgliad o farddoniaeth, ffotograffiaeth a cherfluniaeth wedi dod ynghyd dan olau canwyll. Fe fydd y perfformiad yn trafod beth mae’ n olygu i fod yn rhan o’r gymuned ffermio, i weithio ar y tir ac i deimlo’r golled a'r gwagle enfawr ar ol yr rhai sydd wedi ein gadael.

Made on Ynys Môn, Chronicle Six: The Cows Still Need To Be Milked is a delicate assembly, a series of conversations with local farmers and members of the community - unflinching, heartfelt, and profound. It is a collection of small works. Poetry, music, photography and sculpture brought together by candlelight to explore what it means to be a part of a farming community, to work on and with the land, to deeply feel the spaces left behind by those we have lost.

Mae Dal Angen Godro’r Gwartheg premiered in the school room of Ty Capel Seion, Rhosgoch, in September 2025, through a series of intimate candlelit sharings with live poetry readings by Gwyn Parry. Throughout the day an audience of over fifty people witnessed the stories of local farmers and the animals and land they work with.

A publication of Tri Ffarmwr Three Farmers poetry song cycle by Gwyn Parry will be shared this winter.

Photograph of a rocky landscape with stones and trees in silhouette
Cronicl Chwech: Mae Dal Angen Godro’r Gwartheg. Photograph by Chris Keenan
Photograph of a red tractor inside a large iron shed with a sheep dog sat in the driver's footwell.
Cronicl Chwech: Mae Dal Angen Godro’r Gwartheg. Photograph by Anna Levin
Photograph of a cows face very close up, cropped so you cannot see it's ears or nose
Cronicl Chwech: Mae Dal Angen Godro’r Gwartheg. photograph by Ffion Lloyd

Cronicl Chwech is the work of many people:

Back Bone (recorded conversations and music) by Arwel Hughes, Elfed Roberts, Emlyn Williams, recorded by Christian Cherene, music composed by Jules Maxwell

Buchod (photographs) by Ffion Lloyd

Calf (sculpture, broken china) by Doric McMillan

Straeon Cegin by Sharon Eynon, Valerie Hellier

The Shirt Off Your Back (textile, donated work shirts) by Gill Cuthbertson, Sharon Evans Lesley Anne Hughes

Three Farmers: A Song Cycle (poems) by Gwyn Parry (music) by Wil Jones

Tractor (light and sound installation) by Ceri James, Christian Cherene and Jeff Amos, filmed and edited by Anna Levin

Mae Dal Angen Godro’r Gwartheg is dedicated to all those who make a difference daily. Caredigrwydd yw popeth. Kindness is everything.

Mark Storor

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