Meet Leigh Hedd
Leigh Hedd is a Wrexham-based artist whose artistic practice is confessional - working through traumatic life events and deep-rooted feelings/fears. Leigh recycles “things that stick'' - unforgettable, harmful phrases or words that can cause a detrimental impact.
Meet Ffion Griffiths
Ffion Griffiths is an artist based in Wrexham, North Wales, known for her focus on abstract and conceptual art in her practice. She has a preferred method of creating art that involves sourcing out materials and building her art around them.
Meet Tom Echlin
Tom Echlin is an artist from North Wales, currently pursuing an MA in Interdisciplinary Art Practice at Glyndwr University. His studies center around the intriguing concept of hauntology, which challenges the conventional perception of the past as a linear timeline.
Meet Ryan Saunders
Ryan Saunders is an artist/curator exploring the pedagogical potential of outdoor spaces. Since researching into the facilitation of urgent discussion and critical discourse through these ’third’ spaces during his MA in Creative Production and Curatorial Practice, he uses walking as a primary medium for his research.
Meet Georgia Nielson
Georgia Nielson is a Wrexham-based artist. Her recent work has been focusing on her own lived experience and position within the artworld, with particular reference to her working-class upbringing.
Meet Joseph Wheeler
An amateur bodybuilder, Joseph is exploring cybernetics and pagan ritual through bodybuilding routine. Misunderstood by the bodybuilding establishment, Joseph is banned from competing due to his revolutionary inclusion of chaos magik and technology.
Meet Paul Eastwood
Paul Eastwood is a Wales-based visual artist who treats art as a form of material storytelling. His work creates imagined histories and futures to investigate how spaces, artefacts, and memory communicate identities.
Meet Matthew Walker
Matthew Walker is a UAL Photography graduate. His previous work has included ethnographic studies into stand-up comedy, sex work and rave culture using photography as a primary medium.
Meet James Harper
James Harper is a Welsh artist and creative producer, based in Liverpool. Alongside his role at Liverpool Biennial, he is Founding Director of Periclo CIC, a studio group and project space in Wrexham.
Meet Manon Awst
Manon Awst is an artist and curator based in Caernarfon, Wales, who creates exhibitions, sculptures and site-specific artworks woven with ecological narratives. Her interest lies in the way materials stick to locations and communities, transforming them deep beneath the surface.
Meet Rebecca Hardy-Griffith
Rebecca Hardy-Griffith has worked as a project coordinator and workshop facilitator for 15 years in Cardiff, London and North Wales. She is currently curating the Y Lle Celf at National Eisteddfod, an annual festival to showcase Welsh music, literature, art and more.