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Manon Dafydd – Artist in Residence 2025

Manon Dafydd is an artist and graphic designer from Y Felinheli. After completing the art foundation course at Coleg Menai, Bangor, she went on to graduate with a BA in Graphic Design at Central Saint Martins, London. Since returning home Manon has been developing her artistic practice whilst enjoying various experiences of working with children, […]

Jeanette Gray – Artist in Residence 2025

Jeanette Gray, originally from Scotland and now based in mid Wales, is a weaver and artist who specialises in working with wild, locally gathered plant materials. She began weaving in 2012 after attending her first willow basketry course – “love at first basket”! In 2017, she completed a two-year professional training in basketry at City […]

Alison Neighbour – Artist in Residence 2025

Alison is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist working across performance, installation, and social engagement. Her work invites re-enchantment with the natural world through ritual moments, immersive journeys, and interactive installations. She reimagines spaces for performance and social connection with a strong focus on sustainability. The embodied, sensory relationship between audience, place, and story is central to […]

Richard Harris – Artist in Residence 2025

Richard Harris (b 1954, Devon) has been making environmental sculpture since 1976. While studying at Gloucestershire College of Art and Design, he chose to work outdoors, building structures from found stone and wood. After his studies, he spent a year based in a Dartmoor studio, further deepening his connection with nature. Harris rose to prominence […]

Rebecca Thomas a David Callander – Artist in Residence 2025

Rebecca Thomas Rebecca Thomas is a scholar and creative writer specialising in the history, culture, and literature of medieval Wales. Her main area of research explores how Welsh identities were constructed in medieval texts. Her book History and Identity in Early Medieval Wales (Boydell & Brewer, 2022) examines how names, territory, language, and origin legends […]

Marged Tudur and Aled Rhys Jones – Artist in Residence 2025

Marged Tudur Marged Tudur is a poet, writer, and editor from Morfa Nefyn and now lives in Caernarfon. She graduated in Welsh at Aberystwyth University, studied an MA in Creative Writing, and was awarded a PhD for her study on reading lyrics form Welsh pop songs from the last fifty years as literature. She is […]

DWY – Artist in Residence 2025

Enlli and Lleucu are Dwy – a dynamic flute duo from Cardiff. They are musicians who combine their interests in folk music, traditional dance, classical music, and Welsh culture to produce work that incorporates electronic effects and extended techniques in performances that create a unique, energetic, and memorable sound. In 2023, Dwy won a commission […]

Huw Jones – Artist in Residence 2025

Huw Jones is based in Rhoscolyn on Anglesey. His work is rooted in the landscapes of Ynys Môn and Eryri. His creative process begins outdoors, capturing fleeting changes in light, weather, and season through sketches and paintings in gouache, acrylic, and mixed media. In the studio, he develops these into finished pieces while retaining the […]

Rhian Haf – Artist Preswyl 2025

Mae Rhian Haf yn creu gosodiadau a cherfluniau gan ddefnyddio rhinweddau cyferbyniol gwydr fel ffocws i’w gwaith. Mae hi wedi arddangos ei gwaith yn eang yn y DU a thramor. Preswyliad Crefft 2–16 Awst 2025 Treuliodd Rhian bythefnos ar yr ynys yn edrych ar gysgodion, golau, gorwelion, planhigion ac ati. Crëodd gerflun ymatebol i’r safle: […]

Catrin Menai – Artist in Residence 2025

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 […]

Esyllt Angharad Lewis – Artist in Residence 2025

Esyllt Angharad Lewis is an artist from Craig-Cefn-Parc. Her artwork plays with translation as an aesthetic medium. Her adaptation of Anthony Shapland’s novel ‘Lan Stâr’ (A Room Above a Shop) will be released in spring. She is a co-editor at Stamp Publications and won the Ifor Davies Award at the Pontypridd Eisteddfod 2024 for her […]

Sara Evelyn – Artist in Residence 2025

Sara Evelyn is a sound and interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans scenography, composition, DIY electronics, instrument building and printmaking. Their work considers space, materiality, and site and is often created as a response to the acoustic or material elements of a specific place or environment. Dark Skies Residency with William Wyndham 24 -31st May 2025 […]

William Wyndham – Resident Artist 2025

William Wyndham is a painter and interdisciplinary artist. Along with his background in traditional painting, he creates sculpture, performances, sound and video. Within these different mediums he works with miniature sets, green screen technology, DIY electronics, props, costumes, mask making and free improvisation. He is constantly exploring new ways to bring these different skills together. […]

Joeseph Conran – Resident Artist 2025

Visual Arts Residency 10/05/25–24/05/25 Joseph Conran is an artist and environment sector strategist. His practice inhabits the space between people and nature, often referencing natural processes as a lens through which to interrogate humanity. In both his artistic and strategy practices, Joseph makes spaces where creativity can inspire people to think more about their connection […]

Mari – Bethan Page

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Dienw – Catrin Cheung

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Beyond the Deadline: The luxury of stepping back as a journalist

Back in December, we were delighted to announce Sofia Lewis as the recipient of our inaugural Cynefin Fellowship. As part of the fellowship, Sofia is spending a term at the Reuters Institute in Oxford, exploring the future of journalism alongside six other Fellows from around the world. This is the first in a series of […]

QueerAF Partnership: Nan Knows Best? Grandparents and the Importance of Queer Acceptance

When you’re coming out to your family, Grandparents are often treated as someone to brace for – whose reaction might be awkward or quietly devastating. We are taught to manage expectations, to soften language and prepare for disappointment, with the familiar refrain that ‘they are from a different time’. But that approach overlooks the nuances, […]

Llinos Griffin – Meirionydd

Triggered by the Welsh Women’s Peace Petition, Byw Mewn Heddwch (Live in Peace) encourages arts action in the exploration of peace. In collaboration with Academi Heddwch Cymru and Heddwch Nain/Mam-gu, multi-media sessions will be held for Meirionnydd’s voiceless communities (GISDA young people and women in the area). ‘Peace’ is explored in its broadest sense – […]

Your Stage Awaits: National Youth Dance Wales 2026 Auditions Now Open!

Your Stage Awaits: National Youth Dance Wales 2026 Auditions Now Open! Wales’ most dynamic youth dance opportunity returns – bigger, bolder, and more ambitious than ever. National Youth Dance Wales (NYDW) is calling on young dancers from every corner of Wales to step into the spotlight as auditions for the 2026 company officially open. This […]

Review of the Year 2025

As 2025 comes to a close, it’s a moment to pause, reflect and celebrate what our community has built together. So, whenever I write these reviews of the Inclusive Journalism Cymru year, I look back to what we were hoping for when we first set up the network. We set out to: Be member led […]

People Speak Up Programme – Impact Report

During October 2023 – March 2024, PSU received an ACW Create grant to develop the Creative wellbeing programme at People Speak Up, Llanelli’s arts health and wellbeing hub – a time and space for the community to creatively connect and find their voice through storytelling, spoken word, creative writing, digital arts, visual arts, volunteering and […]

Plu & the Dream Tree

Plu & The Dream Tree follows Plu, a bright and imaginative child from Riverside, who lives with their busy Mam and gentle Tada. When Mam suddenly has to leave to get better, Plu becomes frightened and unsure.One night, during a storm, Plu falls asleep and is transported into a magical dream world watched over by […]

Hammad Rind – Cardiff

The aim of Lleisiau Grangetown (Voices of Grangetown) is to promote Welsh-language literary activities in Grangetown, one of the most diverse and deprived areas of Wales. Activities will include Welsh Open Mic events, book clubs and creative writing courses. The overall vision of the project is to bring the Welsh language to the community in […]

QueerAF Partnership: How Wales Does Ballroom Right

I first stumbled into Ballroom as a queer teenager from the Welsh valleys who’d spent years being bullied. The scene in Cardiff was the first place where I didn’t have to hide. I found a community that moved with purpose and taught newcomers to honour the Black and Latinx trans women who built Ballroom long […]

Carys Hedd – Pembrokeshire

Esgyn (Lift) is a project that will stitch our ‘Codi Canu’ singing community together with creative textile work in North Pembrokeshire. This will be done by recreating the Betgwn, part of the traditional Welsh costume to be worn in performances such as Y Mari Lwyd. The project will also consult with the communities what they […]

Prosiect Esgyn, Llais y Lle

Esgyn is a community project that brings together sewing and Welsh singing to strengthen cultural identity and everyday use of the language. Led by Carys-Hedd, it invites participants across Cardigan and north Pembrokeshire to collaboratively recreate the traditional Betgwn jacket—each in their own style—through guided workshops using meaningful and locally sourced materials. Alongside this, the […]

Rhian Anderson – Caerphilly

Celf yn y Caffi are creative arts sessions that bring people from the Aber Valley together with the aim of promoting the use of the Welsh language. It will be aimed at all levels and abilities, including those with no previous experience but interest and curiosity about the Welsh language.   Here’s a bit about […]

Winter Reads

A selection of the great books from Wales available this winter from your local bookshop.

Is Democratiaeth the same as Democracy?

Democracy has always mattered to me, perhaps because I grew up in a ‘debate at the kitchen table’ type family, where I, as an A-Level politics student, fiercely believed that the United Kingdom – and Wales – was democratic. I would list the UK constitution’s checks and balances, argue vociferously that the voting system was […]

QueerAF Partnership: Do We Need Labels in Trans+ Representation?

Does trans media have an obligation to explicitly label its trans characters as such? Consider Jane Schoenbrun’s 2024 release I Saw The Tv Glow. A “deeply trans movie” , the film directly confronts the ‘egg-crack’ moment of irreversible change in the wake of realising that one is transgender. But the word ‘transgender’, or any of […]