Chwa o Awyr Iach

Breath of Fresh Air

July - September 2023

A playful, multimedia exhibition with artworks by Ella Jones, Esyllt Angharad Lewis, Mia Roberts and Gwenllian Spink

ELLA JONES

Ella Jones is an artist from North Wales. She creates installations, sculptures, and costumes centred on kinaesthetic learning and creating tangible interactions between the audience and artwork. Growing up in North Wales, the white wall space of a gallery has always been aliening to Ella. But surrounded by the countryside and nature, she became fascinated in the haptic, the ability to feel and experience what the eyes can't see: the weight of an object, its material, the texture of its unfamiliar surface, and its temperature.

Recent projects include the 'The rules of art?' at the National Museum Cardiff (2023), a commission for the Useful art space in TY PAWB, Wrexham (2022), and Welcome Collection's Mitochondrial Research Artist in Residence (2020-2021)."

@ellalouisejones_celf

ESYLLT ANGHARAD LEWIS

Esyllt Angharad Lewis is a freelance artist, translator and editor from Graig-Cefn-Parc near Swansea. When considering the possibilities of language as a visual medium, her multi-media work questions the extent to which communication and translation boundaries can be played with, across languages, media and processes. By exploring tensions between spoken and visual languages, and questions related to performing identity, Esyllt uses her speaking voice as well as body language to explore the sound of language, specifically Welsh in relation to English, their presence physical, and their visual properties through sound pieces, performance, print work and installation.

She was recently 'Ulysses Shelter' writer in residence in Malta, and she co-edits Cyhoeddiadau’r Stamp and mwnwgl, a journal of experimental artistic writing.

@esylltesylit

MIA ROBERTS

The work of artist and skater Mia Roberts is grounded in the experiences and stories that evolve in the microcultures of small towns in North Wales, especially attitudes towards sexuality, masculinity, mental health, addiction, abuse and politics. She grew up in Holyhead and studied Art at John Moores University, Liverpool.

Her main mediums are woodcuts and screen-printing, with which she pushes the boundaries of the process and material from 2D formats to 3D sculptures. She was recently commissioned to create a special skateboard design for Circus / Clown skateboards: https://www.thecircusfamily.com/blog/mia

@miarbrts

GWENLLIAN SPINK

Gwenllian Spink is a multi-disciplinary artist, whose practice is rooted in the cultural Welsh landscapes of Wales. Predominantly sculptural, her work is materially led. Most recently, she has received funding from Arts Council Wales’ Llais y Lle fund to research and develop the creative use of the Welsh language within the communities of Dyffryn Nantlle (2023-24).

Recent commissions include Y Fenni Community Feast Commission by Peak Cymru (2023). the Youth Grant Grow Wild by Kew Botanic Gardens (2022) and a commission by Natural Resources Wales to create a participatory sculpture highlighting the biodiversity present in the threatened ecosystems of Cors Caron, a raised bog in Ceredigion (2022).

@gwenllianspink