Ffion Denman
Ffion Denman is a photographer and educator currently living in Cardiff.
"In 1993 my father, Haydn Denman, travelled to the Chubut province of Patagonia, Argentina to photograph Welsh communities. He felt the need to contribute to a visual, historical record of ‘Y Wladfa’, a colony established in the 1860s with the intention of preserving Welsh language, culture and identity from domination by English influences.
In February 2023, thirty years after my father’s visit, I travelled to Argentina with the hopes of updating my family archive and documenting the Welsh community through my own lens. My six-month journey challenged the simplistic narratives I had learned when I was younger, and opened my eyes to the complex coexistence of Welsh settlers and the overlooked stories of the indigenous Mapuche and Tehuelche First Nations."
Kaylee Francis
Kaylee is a documentary photographer interested in exploring issues relating to the representation and misrepresentation of lower socio-economic communities.
"The work entitled Rough edges, is an on-going documentation of a council estate in Swansea. I was born and brought up in the area and still have strong connections and relationships to the community. I have been drawn to photograph the places and people I know here, in a way that is true to my experience, and which I hope contributes a counter-narrative towards negative media representations typical of such communities.
My work considers the possibilities of using photography and activism for agency and social change. My intent is to explore how the lack of positive representation in the media affects the young impressionable mindsets of individuals coming from these areas."
Tracy Harris
Tracy is an Artist, Writer and Documentary film-maker based in Cardiff.
"Through this autobiographical series ‘Revolve’ I wish to explore the intricate maternal bond and deep relationship I have with my son who has cerebral palsy.
Combining a mixture of self-portraiture (captured on my iphone) with more performance style studio photos, I hope others will see themselves reflected through this navigation of parenthood; experiencing the emotions, fears and joy that have shaped my perspective as an artist and mother."
Jack Moyse
Kate Shooter jointly won the 2021 Solo Art prize with Ellie Young and in 2022 presented her solo exhibition ’wicker woman’ - joyous, irreverent ‘reflections of Kate’s own self-navigation, wrestling with life living in a household of males, locating her own Womaness, as an element which jostles and merges into a composite self.’
The latest works we are showing in this exhibition REVISITED, continue Shooter’s personal explorations, coming as they do from automatic responses via drawing. Appearing as expressions of more internal forces, urges of movement out from the body, away from facial recognition, the compositing of various versions / identities, as shown in the ‘grid’ (title)
