Charting Garth Evans’ 1972 Cardiff sculpture — its creation, disappearance, and return — with humour, honesty and cultural resonance.

YMa hosts the world premiere of A Place in the World, a film that explores the extraordinary story of Garth Evans’ Untitled Sculpture. From its creation and installation in Cardiff in 1972, through its disappearance and neglect, to its remarkable return almost fifty years later.

Evans, inspired by his Welsh grandfather’s tales of life as a miner, created a monumental steel work evoking both a hammer and the dark tunnel of a coal mine. Installed in The Hayes, the sculpture sparked immediate public debate, which Evans secretly recorded first-hand. Relocated to Leicestershire after the project, the work lay hidden until a 2019 crowdfunding campaign restored it and returned it temporarily to Cardiff, reigniting dialogue with the community. In 2020, Evans gifted the piece permanently to the University of South Wales.

Full of humour and unflinching honesty, this film reflects on art, memory and belonging. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Garth Evans, Producer Leila Philip, Zoë Gingell (Oriel y Bont, USW) and Hannah Firth (Chapter). Presented in collaboration with Chapter, Oriel y Bont and University of South Wales.