If you look up the meaning of collaboration you will find Anthony Garratt and his installation Uschel ac isel (high and low). ‘Uchel ac Isel’, is a spectacular outdoor painting installation, which tells a unique story about the history, geography and industrial heritage of North Wales, encouraging visitors to make a deeper connection with the region’s dramatic landscape and the forces that shape it. High and Low features two paintings, created in two very different dramatic and inspiring sites: one floating high on the flanks of Snowdon on Llyn Llydaw, and one hung low, deep beneath the mountains in an abandoned slate cavern. Each of the two location offers a unique and arresting opportunity for highly visual storytelling and contemplation: from the soaring light and
reflected imagery of the mountain lake to the dark atmospheric shadows and acoustics of the abandoned slate cavern. Both sites have great historical and geographical significance. Because the paintings were created in situ and then seen in context, they offered a very different way for the viewer to engage with both the art and the landscape which inspired it – Anthony Garratt. Anthony’s art and ideas came to light with the support from Judith Mathews as patron and the collobaration of photographer and filmer Richard Broomhall with project design and build developed by Mark and Loz Cann.
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