Feedback from Cllr. Meirion Hughes:
"Following a competitive selection process, Joseph Ayavoro was commissioned in 2012 to produce a piece of public sculpture art for display in Parc Cae Derw in my community, Llandudno Junction. The commission required him to work with children and young people in order to identify a theme for the piece.
I was part of Conwy County Council's selection panel choosing the artist and it is true to say that the moment we met Joseph his positive energy and that of his art stood out. It was clear he was an international artist and one of considerable repute in Nigeria.
I had considerable contact with him as he worked with local children and young people, stimulating from them their visual thoughts for a theme appropriate to our community. I visited him at his workshop as he contructed the eventual piece "togetherness" from hard steel. Joseph's hallmark, I believe, is energy. His work emanates it. For "Togetherness", he carried out every aspect of it, the hard graft fabrication from raw steel and even the digging out for the sculpture base at Parc Cae Derw. The resulting work, when approached, triggers in me that indefinable, ineffable "moment". There are no words to encapsulate Joseph's work, which I believe to be truly significant."
"Following a competitive selection process, Joseph Ayavoro was commissioned in 2012 to produce a piece of public sculpture art for display in Parc Cae Derw in my community, Llandudno Junction. The commission required him to work with children and young people in order to identify a theme for the piece.
I was part of Conwy County Council's selection panel choosing the artist and it is true to say that the moment we met Joseph his positive energy and that of his art stood out. It was clear he was an international artist and one of considerable repute in Nigeria.
I had considerable contact with him as he worked with local children and young people, stimulating from them their visual thoughts for a theme appropriate to our community. I visited him at his workshop as he contructed the eventual piece "togetherness" from hard steel. Joseph's hallmark, I believe, is energy. His work emanates it. For "Togetherness", he carried out every aspect of it, the hard graft fabrication from raw steel and even the digging out for the sculpture base at Parc Cae Derw. The resulting work, when approached, triggers in me that indefinable, ineffable "moment". There are no words to encapsulate Joseph's work, which I believe to be truly significant."