Catrin Menai is an artist based between Bethesda (north Wales) and Glasgow. She creates narrative-driven works using the communicative potential of everyday objects, gestures, and place. Through film, writing and found objects, and grounded as much in chance encounter as in close study, she explores ways of thinking with our world, considering care and love as a material space for knowledge-making. Her work has been exhibited at Mostyn and The Turner House, and published with Poetry Wales. She completed an MFA at the Glasgow School of Art in 2021.
Research and Development Residency with Catrin Menai 12th-19th July 2025
Using a map of the island’s field names as a starting point, Catrin and Esyllt explored boundaries: of language, land, and perception- through tactile research and collective conversation. They read the fields by walking, sensing, and talking, straddling ways of knowing often kept separate… poetic and scientific, personal and ecological, spoken and “Imagining the Field” – a two-hour workshop combining a guided walk with reflection on language and landscape. Six participants