Composite images of Y Bont: TOP ROW, the full sculpture formerly at Coleg Harlech; CENTRE ROW, four details; BOTTOM ROW, proposed abridged version (left), two details (right).
Scene & Word on 1st October launched a campaign to find a new home in Wales for one of Jonah Jones’s greatest works, the monumental wall sculpture Y Bont (The Bridge), which was created for Coleg Harlech in 1969–70. The work was dismantled in 2012 following the closure of the campus, and has since been in storage in Lampeter [see story here]. Ideally the sculpture will be recreated in its full original form; otherwise Scene & Word hopes to find a site that can accommodate an abridged version retaining all the essential elements.
The campaign was launched with a three-page article by Peter Jones, director of Scene & Word, published in the Welsh-language monthly Barn. The magazine can be bought in all good Welsh bookshops (price £4.80) or the article can be found on the Barn website at https://barn.cymru/cy/chwilio-am-gartref-i-gerflun/.