National Slate Museum
Dafydd Roberts is Keeper of Amgueddfa Lechi Cymru/National Slate Museum at Llanberis, Gwynedd. He manages and leads a team which interprets and presents "the most Welsh of Welsh industries" to over 120,000 visitors annually. The Museum received a national “Sense of Place” award and is housed in the historic engineering workshops of the Dinorwig Slate Quarry, which operated until 1969.

Dafydd Davies is a craftsman at the museum. Apprenticed at the famous Penrhyn Quarry, he demonstrates to visitors the centuries-old craft of splitting slate slabs. Then, with great skill, he shows how thin sheets of slate are trimmed to accurate sizes, to produce what is known as the best roofing material in the world.
www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/slate

Howard Bowcott
Sculptor
Before working as a sculptor, Bowcott was a civil engineer andstone-waller, and many of his sculptures reveal a contemporary take on traditional working methods. Made with local materials and reflective of his innovative style, Bowcott’s sculptures are displayed in public and private sites, both indoors and outdoors, and contribute to each environment and landscape in a unique and powerful way.
www.howardbowcott.co.uk

Angharad Pearce Jones
Installation artist
Angharad Pearce Jones trained initially in 3D Design at Brighton College of Art before studying for an MA in Fine Art at Cardiff School of Art. Subsequently, her current practice falls into two categories, installation art for exhibition and commissioned public art, produced mainly in fabricated steel. She received a Creative Wales Award from the Arts Council of Wales in 2005 to pursue her inquiry into the affect of changing work patterns on society and perceived traditional gender roles, which she approaches with wit and humour. As well as exhibiting both in Britain and abroad, Angharad has enjoyed periods of employment with some of Wales’s leading arts institutions, e.g The Arts Council of Wales, Cywaith Cymru/Artworks Wales (now Safle), The Artes Mundi Prize and is chair of the National Eisteddfod Visual Arts panel.

Stuart Fry
Stonewaller
Fry is involved in a number of studies of local historic landscapes within Carmarthenshire and Breconshire, and he has recently completed a Masters Degree in Historic Landscape Studies at the University of Wales. In 1993, he began practicing dry stone walling full time. Fry is a committed conversationalist and teaches many courses about woodland management, pond creation, and landscape interpretation.

Tim Bevan
Hedger & conservationist
Bevan has been the farm manager for the National Botanic Garden of Wales for the last 10 years. In that time the 400 acres of grassland, crops and woodland has been managed to support Welsh nativeplants and wildlife. In recognitionof the progress, the Countryside Council for Wales declared the site a 'National Nature Reserve' in 2008.
www.gardenofwales.org.uk

Ray Smith
Carpenter & carver
Smith has worked as a traditional carpenter for more than thirty years. After serving a five-year apprenticeship with a country carpenter, he joined a large firm of builders and carpenters. Since 1980, he has helped maintain and restore historic buildings at St. Fagans: National History Museum. At age fifty-nine, Smith taught himself the additional skill of woodcarving.

Coed Cymru – Tŷ Unnos
An award-winning modular building system for affordable housing that uses sustainable Welsh wood. Ty Unnos, or house in a night, is an old Welsh tradition which goes back to the seventeenth century. It was believed by some, that if a person could build a house on common land in one night, then the land belonged to them as a freehold.
www.coedcymru.org.uk/tyunnos.htm

http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/communityengagement/smithsonian/index.html

Selwyn Jones
Stonemason
With 23 years of masonry experience, Jones has worked with some of Wales’ finest examples of architecture, including Welsh heritage sites, vernacular buildings, obelisks, and cathedrals, and has restored them to their former glory using traditional methods and locally sourced materials. He has enjoyed working with CADW and the National Trust and has been privileged to work in wonderful locations.

Ty Mawr
Ecological building materials
Ty-Mawr Lime Ltd has been running specialist courses in traditional and ecological building  for over a decade in Mid Wales.
www.lime.org.uk

Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT)
Pioneers of sustainability, with 35 five years experience communicating climate change and energy issues, CAT is Europe’s leading ecocentre and a hub in Wales and the UK for environmental building and renewable energy systems and policies.
www.cat.org.uk