Storm Kitchen Talks
Cegin Storm Talks convened an online assembly of cooks, poets, geologists, growers, activists and artists to respond to 3 locations along the Mon & Brec canal – an artery of industrial expansion in South East Wales and now a designated heritage landscape. Conversations focused on forgotten colonial histories, food justice, telling stories the margins, deep time and commoning.
Cegin Storm Talks convened an online assembly of cooks, poets, geologists, growers, activists and artists to respond to 3 locations along the Mon & Brec canal – an artery of industrial expansion in South East Wales and now a designated heritage landscape. Conversations focused on forgotten colonial histories, food justice, telling stories the margins, deep time and commoning.
Location: Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal
Collaborators: Co-hosted with Owen Griffiths; artist commissions by Sadia Pineda Hameed and Beau W Beakhouse
Partners: Peak Cymru
Date: October 2020
Website: ahoiwhatgrows.com
Collaborators: Co-hosted with Owen Griffiths; artist commissions by Sadia Pineda Hameed and Beau W Beakhouse
Partners: Peak Cymru
Date: October 2020
Website: ahoiwhatgrows.com
talks programme, artist residencies & website
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Hinterlands Wales
A programme of artist-led commissions, research and community structures on the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal featuring a floating art school Performance Butty, a habitat creation project Pont-y-Ddol and Ahoi! What Grows Here, a proposal for a slow food highway.
A programme of artist-led commissions, research and community structures on the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal featuring a floating art school Performance Butty, a habitat creation project Pont-y-Ddol and Ahoi! What Grows Here, a proposal for a slow food highway.
Location: Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal
Collaborators: Owen Griffiths, Ella Gibbs, Sam Makumba, Stefhan Caddick, Rebecca Chesney.
Partners: Peak Cymru & Glandwr Cymru
Date: 2018 – 2021
Website: ahoiwhatgrows.com
Collaborators: Owen Griffiths, Ella Gibbs, Sam Makumba, Stefhan Caddick, Rebecca Chesney.
Partners: Peak Cymru & Glandwr Cymru
Date: 2018 – 2021
Website: ahoiwhatgrows.com
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How to Build a Valley
Mapping workshops, a festival of ideas, walks and an exhibition expanding the timeline of Treherbert into the deep past and future. Hosting conversations on climate, land ownership, empire and industry to imagine the potential of public public land surrounding the village.
Location: Treherbert, Rhondda
Collaborators: Project Skyline, Peak Cymru, Owen Griffiths, Gloria Giambartolomei, Sakina Sheikh.
Date: Spring 2018 – Summer 2019
Website: skyline.wales
Photos: Mike Erskine and Vaida Barzdaite
Mapping workshops, a festival of ideas, walks and an exhibition expanding the timeline of Treherbert into the deep past and future. Hosting conversations on climate, land ownership, empire and industry to imagine the potential of public public land surrounding the village.
Location: Treherbert, Rhondda
Collaborators: Project Skyline, Peak Cymru, Owen Griffiths, Gloria Giambartolomei, Sakina Sheikh.
Date: Spring 2018 – Summer 2019
Website: skyline.wales
Photos: Mike Erskine and Vaida Barzdaite
festival, exhibition & workshops
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Tonight the World
‘My favourite part of the whole exhibition is a square that has been carved out of a screen that covers the breton brut on the walls of the Barbican. There is one photograph of the modernist villa in it but you also see the breton brut concrete –it’s a very nice glimpse of the innards of the Barbican.’ Alice Rawsthorn, design critic and writer, 30th January 2019, BBC Radio London.
Location: The Curve, barbican / Contemporary Jewish Museum
Collaborator: Daria Martin
Date: 2019 / 2020
‘My favourite part of the whole exhibition is a square that has been carved out of a screen that covers the breton brut on the walls of the Barbican. There is one photograph of the modernist villa in it but you also see the breton brut concrete –it’s a very nice glimpse of the innards of the Barbican.’ Alice Rawsthorn, design critic and writer, 30th January 2019, BBC Radio London.
Location: The Curve, barbican / Contemporary Jewish Museum
Collaborator: Daria Martin
Date: 2019 / 2020
environment
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Quite Suddenly Your Smile is an Architecture
An environment and event in a 2nd hand bookshop presenting the poetry and publishing projects of Jeff Nuttall, an artist who grew up in nearby Herefordshire. Nuttall’s self-published series My Own Mag was ‘a paper exhibition in words, pages, spaces, holes, edges and images’ and was exhibited with other publications in a structure borrowed from the plan of Bruce Lacey and Jeff Nuttall’s STigma environment, Better Books, London 1965.
Location: Broadleaf Books, Abergavenny
Research: Henry Moore Institute Visiting Fellowship
Thanks: Jill Richards, Islwyn Watkins
Date: 2016
An environment and event in a 2nd hand bookshop presenting the poetry and publishing projects of Jeff Nuttall, an artist who grew up in nearby Herefordshire. Nuttall’s self-published series My Own Mag was ‘a paper exhibition in words, pages, spaces, holes, edges and images’ and was exhibited with other publications in a structure borrowed from the plan of Bruce Lacey and Jeff Nuttall’s STigma environment, Better Books, London 1965.
Location: Broadleaf Books, Abergavenny
Research: Henry Moore Institute Visiting Fellowship
Thanks: Jill Richards, Islwyn Watkins
Date: 2016
environment, exhibition and event
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