Date:	Summer 2009
Artist:	Freddie Yauner
Location:	Glamorgan cricket ground, Cardiff

To mark the occasion of the first Ashes Test to be
played in Wales, Freddie Yauner has been awarded The
Ashes Residency Commission.

Freddie Yauner is an exciting young artist who graduated last year from the Royal College of Art. Freddie, who is based in London, designs products and installations that aim to engage and inform. He is concerned with the state of the world through the eyes of designed objects. He made news headlines last year when he gained a world record after producing a range of excessive consumer products.

Yauner, who is a cricket fan himself, is excited that the project will reinforce the values that cricket and the npower Ashes still maintains. When the rest of the world is clamouring for more and bigger, cricket teaches fair play and the value of achievement for its own good rather than for the prize available.

Yauner will be resident at the cricket ground for 8 weeks including the test match (8th – 12th July), lead up and aftermath. He is interested in the technological developments in cricket, as well as the rituals such as afternoon tea and scorecard keeping. Alongside temporary explorations he will produce a legacy artwork as a record of the 2009 Ashes Test to be permanently housed at the ground.


Inspired by the quote “Never judge anything by its size. The npower Ashes are one of the smallest prizes in world sport, yet they have a massive meaning” from the ‘The npower Ashes come to Cardiff’ exhibition at the old library in Cardiff, Yauner will be asking the crowd to draw the ashes urn at what they think is the correct size. The hundreds of drawings gathered over the 5 days of the test will be used as a key element contributing towards the final legacy artwork in the stadium.

People will be able to follow the developments of the project and even participate themselves on the artists residency blog.