Kathryn Ashill

Kathryn Ashill, born in the Swansea valleys now lives and works on Barry Island. Ashill graduated with a BA Honours in Fine Art (Combined Media) from Swansea Metropolitan University (now University of Wales Trinity St Davids) 2007, and gained an MFA degree from Glasgow School of Art in 2015. Kathryn’s most recent solo exhibition ‘FOOLS GOLD’ is a film installation for the Glynn Vivian Gallery and as part of receiving the Sir Leslie Joseph Award in 2021. This installation is currently being exhibited at ArtLacuna in South London. Ashill has exhibited work nationally and internationally, and is currently working on a new body of work for a major solo show at g39, Cardiff, taking place in Sept 2022.

Alongside their practice. Kathryn is currently a practice based PHD candidate at the University of Manchester, where they’re exploring the potential of inter-species collaboration across the fields of contemporary performance art, animal therapy and biotherapies.

Angela Davies

Angela Davies (b. 1977, Wrexham), completed a Masters at Manchester School of Art. In 2015 she co-founded Studio MADE a cross-disciplinary studio within Denbigh. 

Working across sculpture, video, photography, sound, installation and performance, her practice engages environmental concerns and currently reflects upon fracture and care across domestic and global scales. 

In 2018 she was awarded a Creative Wales Award. Recent shows include Northlands film festival: Scotland, Japan, New York; Watershed Bristol; S12 Galleri Bergen; V2 Lab for the Unstable Media and Pontio Arts & Innovation Bangor. 

Angela's work is held within both public and private collections. She has engaged in residencies with National Theatre Wales, HOME, Pervasive Media Studio and Cadw, with commissions undertaken for Arts Council of Wales, the National Trust and BBC Connected Studios with NESTA. 

Kirsti Davies

Kirsti Davies is a multidisciplinary community artist working to bring people together through creativity, play and plants. 

Although her work is multifaceted, the focus is to connect environmental issues with people, through encouraging curiosity and hands-on participation. This has culminated in large scale art projects and installations for organisations including Kew Gardens, Eden Project, Southbank Centre, Welsh Government and the Forest Stewardship Council as well as endless schools, councils and NGOs across the country. 

In response to the deafening call of the climate and biodiversity crisis, Kirsti has recently completed an MSc in Sustainable Food and Natural Resources, looking deeper into the potential of seaweed cultivation in Wales. Lockdown also inspired an emergency seed pack project for kids, TyfuDyfi, and working with her local community to build food resilience

Kirsti was born and grew up in Machynlleth, mid-Wales, where she recently returned to raise her young family. 

Dylan Huw

Dylan Huw is a writer living in Cardiff. He works bilingually across criticism, fiction and collaborative projects, often to explore ideas around translation, queerness, ecology and collective practices. He is currently the Jerwood Arts Writer in Residence, and was awarded the 2020/1 Geraint George Scholarship. He works with Peak Cymru, currently to develop Pegwn, a dialogic artist-led programme exploring language futures in Wales. Dylan has recently written texts for Flash Art International, O'r Pedwar Gwynt, MOSTYN, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Artes Mundi and National Museum Wales, and he has a monthly column on Welsh-language arts on the internet in Barn. With Elin Meredydd and Esyllt Angharad Lewis, he also co-runs mwnwgl, commissioning experimental writing and artists' projects for print. He was raised in Llanfihangel Genau'r Glyn, Ceredigion, and has an MA (funded by the James Pantyfedwen Foundation) from the Visual Cultures department of Goldsmiths, University of London.

Durre Mughal

Durre Shahwar is a writer and artist. Her work overlaps the boundaries between research, essay, autofiction, prose poetry and has been published in various journals and anthologies, most prominently: Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class (Dead Ink Books), We Shall Fight Until We Win (404 Ink), Welsh (Plural) (Repeater Books), Homes for Heroes 100: Council Estate Memories (Bristol Festival of Ideas), Artes Mundi, Edinburgh Fringe. She is the co-editor of Just So You Know (Parthian Books) and the co-founder of ‘Where I’m Coming From’ open mic collective. Her practice is embedded in community and collaboration and in creating voice and experience-driven work on nature, migration, mental health, class, race, and similar intersecting themes. Durre is doing her PhD at Cardiff University while writing her debut book.

Rhys Slade-Jones

Rhys Slade-Jones is a queer artist hailing from south Wales. They make work that is fun, silly and full of heart. Walking the line between the convivial, and the confrontational, Rhys makes political work straddling the worlds of cabaret, performance and craft. They are recipient of the COMMON Award, Jerwood Live Work Fund and have made work with National Theatre Wales, Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru, BBC, & The Pleasance. Scream It From The Hills is a year long exploration of community, history and economics located in the Old Age Hall in Treherbert. Supporting local people to question what global systems they are a part of, and empowering them to create work in response to the global shifts in climate.

Fern Thomas

Fern Thomas’s practice is based within the field of Social Sculpture with a focus on re-imagined histories, ritual, place-based knowledge, alternative pedagogies, and future-oriented questions around our climate. The work can manifest as object, text, spoken word, sound, performative gesture and participatory forms. 

Speculative fiction or alternative narratives are central to her process, where imagined histories and dream-induced futures merge and become a catalyst for a process of transformation.  She often uses place, archives or an historical object as a starting point for unlocking new perspectives. She has a particular interested in divinatory tools and the necessary conditions for telling the future.

Fern is becoming more and more drawn to the vibration of things.

Heledd Wyn

HELEDD WYN Photographer, Film-maker and Visual Artist is a passionate and experienced multi-disciplinary visual artist, director and producer of dramatic stories and creative cross platform content. Her visual work, film instillations, photography and paintings have won awards and exhibited widely. Heledd has been interpreting and capturing moments on film from an early age, playing with light and movement to bring characters, their environment and their stories alive. She has a keen eye for detail and enjoys the creative interpretation of images. With a degree in Drama, NFTS and BBC training, specializing in Film and TV, she brings action to life through a lens. She enjoy exploring, examining and experimenting in order to enhance and develop her work and take audiences on a journey of discovery.