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PROJECTS:
Reconnection to and collaboration with the land and communication of the unseen, including sensory response to place and space.
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A journey unearthing personal creative solutions to access and wellbeing based in personal practice. Reshaping the experience of neurodivergent & disabled artists through an experiential development program & activism for a Culture of Care.
2023-2025
Further development of the project & the concept of a Culture of Care though the development of the Rewilding the artist process for others, launch of a Culture of Care podcast & the development of a new body of work informed by authenticity and the wider Rewilding process. Kindly Funded by Arts Council Wales Lottery Grant with integral support from Utopias Bach Collective.
2021 - 2022:
An Arts Council Wales Lottery Funded research and development project asking 'Can neurodivergent sensory practice become the foundation of a sustainable arts practice that nourishes the artist?'
Including:
Octopus of Omnipotence exploring Kindness in a uniquely accessible environment with Utopias Bach.
Explorative development of a Collaborative Contract & Kindness Pledge with Ffiwsar.
A socially engaged project with a focus on reverence & care for the natural world and understanding ourselves more deeply while creating inner stillness through innate human connection to the land.
2023:
At Eich Coed / Tree Sense (Ysgol Arbrofol / Experimental School ) residency at Ponto, Bangor in collaboration with Utopias Bach Collective
2022:
The Blueprint of Peace Explored Through Ma (Online Experiential Workshop) & Peaceful Play (Self directed outdoor event). Kindly funded by Utopias Bach Collective Seed Fund
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2020 - 2021:
The project supported four artists with varying lived experiences of disability and none, to discuss & identify barriers to access while collaborating to discover create routes through challenges during the creation of new work. An ACW Lottery Grant Funded Project.
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OTHER PROJECTS, EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
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2023:
Grounding Sounding Drawing Breath for Artes Mundi/Creativity is Mistakes in collaboration with Utopias Bach
Holding Space, Penrhyn House, Bangor part of Cysylltu
Utopias Bach Collective, Galeri Caernarfon
Shizen - Aildanio, DAC Art Prize Exhibition - g39: Cardiff & Cynon Valley Museum: Aberdare, Galeri: Caernarfon
Ysgol Arbrofol (Experimental School) - Residency brining together Utopias Bach Collective & Cathedral of the Trees at Pontio, Bangor
2022:
Becoming – Residency with Utopias Bach & Cwrdd â mi wrth yr afon at Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales. Exploring processes that aim to foster deeper connections that bring together the human and more-than-human.
Unspoken - Bodfa Continuum, Plas Bodfa, Anglesey, Wales
The Possibilities of Time - Bodfa Continuum, Plas Bodfa, Anglesey.
Ways of Seeing Green, Bell House, Dulwich, London.
2020:
Crucify - Outside//Inside, DAC Art Prize, Oriel Davies, Powys, Wales and Cynon Valley Museum, Aberdare, Wales
2019:
Life (UotS) - Open Exhibition: Oriel Q, Narberth, Pembrokeshire
2018:
The Ma of Equilibrium (Performance) - Live Screen, The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry (Commissioned by Home for Waifs & Strays)
2015:
15 Minutes (Performance collaboration with Aleksander Wojtulewicz) - Backbone, Home for Waifs & Strays, Digbeth, Birmingham
2014:
YOU (Performance) - Breaking the Law / Burning Down the House, Home for Waifs & Strays, Digbeth, Birmingham
Life (UotS) - Coventry Open, The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry
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COMMISSIONS
2021:
Kindness - An artist’s resource film commissioned by g39/WARP supporting arts organisations to welcome neurodivergent artists & visitors.
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CURATORIAL
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2020:
Raising the Bar Together - supporting access for disabled artists. (Arts Council Wales Lottery Grant Funded)
2013:
Vessel - Roots Gallery Open Exhibition, Coventry
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TALKS & PRESENTATIONS
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2020:
Unlimited Connects Wales: Making Space – Curating disabled Artists (in conjunction with Visual Art Group Wales)
2013:
Social Sculpture: The Role of the Artist, Roots Gallery, Coventry
2012:
Fragile, Femme:5, Roots Gallery, Coventry
[UP] Unhinged Plan (experimental performance and installation group), Meter Room, Coventry
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AWARDS & PRIZES
2023:
Arts Council Wales Project Grant for Rewilding the Artist: Breaking New Ground
Cultural Freelancers Wales funding for Holding Space
2022:
Utopias Bach Seed funding for The Octopus of Omnipotence (collaboratory project)
Utopias Bach Seed funding for Cathedral of the Trees
2021:
Arts Council Wales Project Grant for Rewilding the Artist
2020:
DAC Art Prize Finalist
Art Council Wales Lottery Fund for Raising the Bar Together
2014:
HCE 10: The Circles Competition (3rd Prize)
2012:
Judith Phillips Award for Outstanding Achievement
2011:
Shortlisted for Phoenix Group Creative Prize
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ASSOCIATE POSITIONS
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Arts Council Wales Associate (Ongoing)
Oriel Davies Associate Artist (2021-2022)
'Seer of the Unseen' at Utopias Bach Collective (Ongoing)
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Gaia would like to acknowledge the support of the following organisations:
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Oriel Davis, Arts Council Wales, Utopias Bach Collective, g39, DASH, The Gane Trust
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