DAY 4

26th July 2025

Bracelet Bay, Swansea

DYDD 5

26 Gorffennaf 2025

Traeth Bae Bracelet, Mwmbwls

GWYL CERFLUN TRAETH 2025

Artists /Artistiaid:

SARA HOLDEN,

TINA MARIE CUNNINGHAM,

JENNY CHISHOLM

Photographer / Ffotograffydd Prosiect: PHIL HOLDEN

The fourth destination in our Beach Sculpture Festival tour was Bracelet Bay in Mumbles. Bracelet Bay is a small, rocky beach near Mumbles Head with beautiful views of the Mumbles Lighthouse and the Bristol Channel. It's known for its mix of sand, pebbles, and rock pools, with some areas accessible at low tide. Its a popular beach with children for rock pooling and exploring the rocky areas surrounding the bay. There is a lot of materials here to use for making sculptures such as different coloured pebbles, shells, feathers, seaweed as well as sand. The weather continued to be warm and sunny as the artists set up the site with flags especially designed and made for the Festival by pupils at Oystermouth Primary School. Families and people of all ages soon started to arrive ready to take part in their artist led workshops and some amazing sculptures began to take shape on the beach. Their experiences are recorded here in photos and words.

We made an octopus which we were very happy with. Our creativity was definitely enhanced through the workshop - previously we found being creative challenging. Events like this are worthwhile as they have a low impact to the environment and connect us with nature.

The children really enjoyed being creative at the beach - it whiled away an afternoon in a delightful way.

It was a great way to learn about the natural environment.

The sculptures are so impressive!

We made lots of different sculptures and spent a couple of lovely hours being creative at this lovely summer activity!

We enjoyed making our sculptures - the girls learnt a new skill. The festival taught the kids to be more resourceful and was accessible to all ages.

Participants enjoyed exploring the expanse of the beach for chosen resources and expressed feelings of calmness being in the open air on the beach. They enjoyed the sensory aspect of building and manipulating the sand into shapes for their chosen species.

We had a great time learning sand sculpting techniques. Environmental art events like this are great to teach young people about wildlife, conservation and art!

Creative learning outdoors at it's best!

A Sand Lizard is created as a large scale sculpture across the beach.

The groups were very excitable and buzzing with ideas. Each group stayed a long time and were eager to learn about creatures in their local environment.

Events like this are definitely worthwhile - kids need to interact with nature!

A workshop was run as part of the project to create colourful flags that were especially designed and made for the Festival by Year 5 pupils at Oystermouth Primary School. Marine animals featured on the fabric flags to fit in with the festival theme. The flags adorned the festival beaches and were much admired.

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THANK YOU TO OUR KIND SPONSORS FEATURED BELOW:

Diolch i bawb am wneud ein gwyl cerflunwaith flynyddol mor llwyddiant unwaith eto.

We always come to this festival and we made a leatherback turtle this time. We loved it! Everyone was involved using a variety of materials. Such a great event!

An Oystercatcher bird sculpture is created from the wonderful coloured pebbles found at Bracelet Bay.

It was calming to be in nature learning about marine animals through the art and being with others. It was great to connect with nature at the Festival.

All kinds of sculptures were created during the day including those based on small marine species found on Wales' coastline such as Strandline Beetles, Sand Lizards and Silky Wave Moths.

A Jellyfish is created large scale from the red-brown and black pebbles found on the beach.

It was fun to learn how to make sculpture and base it on marine animals. It was a great way to tech the younger generation about the environment too!

The festival activity really inspired children to look carefully at their surroundings and use their imaginations to make their sculptures as well as building an empathy with marine species! Our participant's creativity and wellbeing was enhanced through the festival - they came with excitement and eagerness to discover things and try out new ideas for making sculptures. At the end of the day, the artists reflected on a successful day and packed away all the festival flags and displays ready for the next day at Blackpill Beach.

To see Day 5 of the 2025 Festival at Blackpill Beach - click the link at the bottom of this page

I weld tudalen 5o 2025 Gwyl Traeth Blackpill - cliciwch ar y ddolen ar waelod y dudalen hon