Sifting and Combing / Y Crib a’r Gogor by Siw Thomas is a book in English and Welsh that presents Siw’s work at Plas Brondanw, the house of writer Amabel Williams-Ellis

Edited by Helen Thomas and Peter St John
Designed by A Practice for Everyday Life
Published by women writing architecture (publishing) ISBN 978-3-907461-02-0

Written contributions in English and Welsh by: Pat Cattell, Seran Dolma, Sian Elen, Liza Fior, Petra Götze, Tanya Harrod, Rachel Hunt, Christine, Mills, Mariah Nielson, Nicola Tassie, Helen Thomas

Photography by: Peter Abrahams, Lara Usherwood, Ed Park, Peter St John

Developing from a collection around Writing out of Rural Wales on Women Writing Architecture, the publication explores a variety of relationships through Siw’s pottery, such as the presence and effect of everyday objects in the domestic interior, and their connection with the geology and physical material of the surrounding environment in the clays and grounds that are collected and transformed. Other themes include the boundaries of art with craft, how the memories and ideas of an individual resonate with friends and strangers through naming, form and association, and the question of technical process as a conceptual method.