Farah Allibhai
Farah Allibhai is a Ugandan-born, Gujarati Shia Ismaili Muslim who has lived in Cardiff for most of her life. This gives her a unique international cultural framework and intersectional lens which informs her work and life's journey. As a multi-disciplinary artist and curator, her work centres around the process of self-discovery, self-realization, self- actualisation and healing the inner-self. Drawing on her lived experience, inspired by diversity, the metaphysical and the spiritual, she questions how we can connect to ourselves, the environment, and the communities in which we find ourselves. Her work is observational, performative and site-specific.
Farah was awarded a Weston Jerwood Fellowship in 2021 as curatorial assistant at Artes Mundi. She was instrumental in setting up the collective 1800hrs and is currently a member of Aurora Trinity Collective and Disability Arts Cymru.
Phoebe Davies
Phoebe Davies lives and works in the Vale of Glamorgan. She creates work across moving-image, print and sound. Her practice is formed by long-term fieldwork and is often shaped by collaborative models of working from different social and cultural sectors, including methodologies from athleticism, activism, speculative fiction and organic farming. She regularly works with and in response to individuals, communities and locations. Habitually she uses the lens, body and voice to explore the subtleties and tensions of visceral human experiences and personal politics.
Parallel to her solo practice she is part of the artist duo Bhebhe&Davies, directing performance work spanning stage and screen. Her work has been shown in galleries, educational institutions, and the public realm, including Festival of Voice, (Cardiff), Tate Modern (London), Site Gallery (Sheffield), and the Wellcome Collection (London). She is currently a recipient of g39’s Freelands Artist Fellowship in Cardiff.
Paul Eastwood
Paul Eastwood, based in Wrexham, is a visual artist who treats art as a form of material storytelling. He creates imagined histories and futures to investigate how spaces, artefacts, and memory communicate identities. Language – fleeting or imprinted, natural or invented, hegemonic or minority – is a constant object and medium of his practice. His work includes video, installation, ceramic, textiles, drawings and prints.
He studied at Yale College, Wrexham (2003-4), Wimbledon School of Arts, London (2004-7), and the Royal Academy Schools, London (2011-14). Since returning to Wales, he has won the inaugural NOVA Art Prize, Wales (2017), and participated in exhibitions across Wales, England, and Europe. These include a solo show at Chapter, Cardiff (2019), group shows at Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham, and MOSTYN, Llandudno. In 2020, he spent a three-month residency as Creative Wales Fellow at the British School at Rome.
Heledd C Evans
Heledd C Evans is an artist and facilitator based in Cardiff. She works predominantly with sound as both a medium and a subject matter, often focusing on creating site-specific work. She recently created work for Llandyfeisant Church near Llandeilo for the Beyond the Border Festival, and ‘Interwoven’, an installation with textile artist Annie Fenton at Shift Cardiff of which she is currently a resident.
She was awarded the Artist Benevolence Fund’s Step Change Fellowship after graduating from Cardiff Metropolitan University and has undertaken several residencies including with Out There Arts, Made in Roath and Galerie Simpson Artists. As a facilitator she has worked with Artes Mundi, The Future is Us in Abergavenny, and created and facilitated a series of experimental sound and noise workshop Noisestruck! with Community Music Wales.
She is currently working as part of sound/performance duo, Ardal Bicnic with writer and Musician Rosey Brown, developing an outdoor performance piece Sound Foraging as part of Articulture’s Four Nations Outdoor Arts Bursary, recently performing at Surge Festival in Glasgow and Spraoi in Waterford.
Rebecca Jagoe
Rebecca Jagoe is an autistic artist, writer and editor based in Monmouth. Working across objects, drawing, textiles, printed texts, performance, and workshops, their practice variously explores the ideological construction of monstrosity and madness in Western culture; the relationship between clothing, illness, and gender; and human intimacy with other-than-humans. They are currently on the Freelands Fellowship at g39 in Cardiff, where they are researching the traces of animistic thought found in late Medieval European languages.
Rhiannon Lowe
Rhiannon Lowe (she/her, born Yorkshire, lives Cardiff) is a performer and noise-maker, often using constructed, semi-domestic spaces in which to stage performances and hang work. She writes, curates and organises exhibitions, and performs at sound events. She studied at Lancaster, Birmingham and Leicester.
Rhiannon’s current project, Trans Panic, focuses on transition, positioning herself as a trans artist working with trans subject matter, while taking angry swipes at anti-trans media. Her faux-character Cekca Het, is a never-to-make it pop/noise band, commemorating growing up in the 80s, coupled with the confused enjoyment of a second teen-age.
Recent projects include: Man, I can’t tell you how relieved I was when you took off your dress, you didn’t have a dick, Aggregate 2022, Freelands, London; This Is No Time To Plan An Ending, g39, Cardiff; Careful Networks, Phoenix, Leicester; Cekca Het: Trans Panic, Mission, Swansea; Freelands Fellowship, g39, Cardiff.
Owain McGilvary
Owain McGilvary, based in Anglesey, works with moving image, painting and drawing. He is interested in modes of communication derived from popular culture, queer vernacular and the subcultures that engage with them. His work explores the intricacies of speech, gesture and image, considering oral history, speculation, found and archival material together through experimental documentary.
Recent solo exhibitions and projects include I’m finally using my body for what I feel like it is made to do, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff (2022) and CARU’N DDWYS, Ty Pawb, Wrexham. He has been the recipient of the Visual Art & Craft Maker Award (2021), Hospitalfield Graduate Residency (2021), Hope Scott Trust Grant (2021) and Arts Council Wales Create Fund (2021). He holds an MFA from The Glasgow School of Art (2019) and a BA Fine Art from Central Saint Martins (2015).
Cinzia Mutigli
Based in Cardiff, Cinzia Mutigli works across film, writing, sound, performance and printed imagery making work linking her own story to wider cultural histories. Her work is concerned with mental health and wellbeing and their intersection at personal, professional and creative junctures. She considers how domestic, socio-political and popular cultural environment interact to impact our persona, psychologies and sense of self.
Recent projects include: I’ve Danced at Parties, Survey ll, Jerwood Arts (2021) Sweet Wall, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh (2020); Cheery Like Lorraine Kelly’s Cheery (text) for ON CARE, Ma Biblioteque (2020); My Boring Dreams featuring Kylie, Neneh, Whitney and the Gang for Chips & Egg, The Sunday Painter Gallery, London (2019); and Diana Ross Shaped, Cubitt, London (2018).In 2022 Cinzia was the recipient of the Wakelin Award, awarded by The Friends of The Glynn Vivian for her film installation, Sweet Wall.
Cynthia MaiWa Sitei
Cynthia MaiWa Sitei is a Kenyan British curator and documentary photographer based in Cardiff. As curator at Ffotogallery, she has been involved on a number of projects including curating two group exhibitions that showcased the exceptional and thought-provoking work of visual artists from Africa. Her work integrates photography and text, and explores themes of stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. Cynthia believes, that to broaden the arts sector, we need to involve different and new voices that offer new perspectives which challenge and question.
Jennifer Taylor
Jennifer Taylor works with live performance, film and installation to explore ritualistic behaviour and systems of control. By merging ancient mysticism with sci-fi futurism, she creates absurd narratives with ambiguous fictional realities. For her anarchic live events, groups of performers in elaborate theatrical costumes join her to re-enact historical fertility festivals and bizarre invented ceremonies of transformation within colourful, immersive stage sets. Jennifer was born in Pembrokeshire and is based in Cardiff. She studied at the Royal College of Art, London and the Ruskin School, University of Oxford (First Class Honours).
She completed the g39 Fellowship with the Freelands Artist Programme, the Stella Fellowship at Castro Projects Rome and the Creative Wales Fellowship at the British School at Rome. She has exhibited at Palazzo del Podestà Piacenza, Hypermaremma Tuscany; KARST Plymouth; Wapping Project London; Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporiain Paris; A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro.