Ren Wolfe | Alisha Ahmed | Kamila Krol | Caitlin Flood-Molyneux | Jane Campbell | Vivian Ross-Smith | Morgan Dowdall | Karn John | Luke Blaidd | Skye Kember
07/02/25 – 22/03/25
Preview Friday 7th February 7pm
Open Wednesday – Saturday 11am – 7pm
“Queer Land” celebrates the vitality and resilience of the queer community in Wales, nurtured by land and collective identity. Through the intersecting perspectives of 10 artists, the exhibition delves into themes of liminality, connection, and belonging.
With a collaborative curatorial approach, the exhibition fosters authentic dialogue between the artworks, moving beyond isolated experiences to create a shared narrative. These works reflect the depth of queer life in Wales, embracing diverse voices – from Welsh speakers and trans individuals to parents, elders, and global majority communities.
Using themes of tenderness, “otherness”, and shared space, Queer Land invites audiences to explore queer perspectives and collective imagination. It creates a space for all stories, challenging boundaries and envisioning a Wales where every identity is honoured and celebrated.
Welcome to Queer Land; a place for connection, transformation, and belonging.
About the artists:
Caitlin Flood-Molyneux
Caitlin Flood-Molyneux is an award-winning contemporary Welsh Artist. Their artistic practice investigates the relationship between pop culture imagery and the way in which we attach emotion and memory to images and use this to narrate their subjective experiences of hardship. The work is both deeply personal and universal, as it charts key moments of their life; a private and enigmatic visual story with which Flood-Molyneux invites the viewer to forge their own connection.
Vivian Ross-Smith
Vivian Ross-Smith (she/her) makes paintings, performances and textiles to create space for experiential-led happenings.
In these works, Vivian focuses on practices of care, including generosity, reciprocity and expectations of rest. Rooted in her background as a Social Care Worker, she utilises gesture and tacit communication to emphasise the language of tactility. Exploring sensuality, coding and the queering of materiality, she encourages a bodily response to her artwork through touch and active participation.
Karn John
Karn (they/she) is queer, non-binary and neurodivergent transdiciplinary artist exploring themes of health, home, ecology, queerness, spirituality, othering and belonging, through messy and elemental material encounters with the human and more than human world. Their creative practice manifests as natural colour-making with
found plants, earth and metals alongside work on paper, site-sensitive installations, writing, text work, performance and holding spaces and places for group play and dialogue.
Morgan Dowdall
Morgan Dowdall (they/them) is a visual artist based in Cardiff. They use the human figure as a vessel in order to explore themes of queerness, camp, objectification, intimacy and dysmorphia. The figures depicted through their work range from the beautifully grotesque, to more playful and illustrative celebrations of the naked body.
Ren Wolfe
Ren’s practice is a celebration and exploration of imaginative play. Through their work they excavate childhood memories to examine our relationships with self and the absurd. The work functions not only as separate pieces in conversation with a central theme, but as an ever-expanding world of interrelated characters and stories that defiantly eschew elitism in favour of humour and heart.
Jane Campbell
Winner of the Geoff Stevens Memorial Poetry Prize, her first collection, Slowly as Clouds, is published by Indigo Dreams. www.indigodreamspublishing.com/jane-campbell
Jane also won the Disability Arts Cymru Creative Writing Award in 2022.
Jane’s work has appeared in Ink Sweat and Tears, The Dawntreader, One Hand Clapping, Black Bough, The Plumwood Mountain Journal (Auz) and Bloody Amazing (Saboteur’s best anthology for 2021). Her poem The Gardener was featured in a BBC Wales programme Giants in the Sky.
Jane Campbell: Enillydd y Wobr Barddoniaeth Goffa Geoff Stevens, cyhoeddwyd ei chasgliad cyntaf,
Slowly as Clouds, gan Indigo Dreams.
www.indigodreamspublishing.com/jane-campbell
Alisha Ahmed
Born in Italy, but of Egyptian heritage, Alisha Ahmed [she/they] is a fat, non-binary queer, mixed-race, neurodivergent, millennial. In the last few years their activism spans from organizing fundraisers in support of BLM, Mermaids, and Refugees to active member of Glitter Cymru where they are now one of the Training and Education Officers on all Intersectionality Matters.
Luke Blaidd
My name is Luke Blaidd and I am a writer and artist living in Aberystwyth. Through my art, I explore my queerness, disabilities and Welshness – and the relationship between them. I speak Welsh as a second language, and I am currently writing a Welsh-English LGBTQ+ dictionary.
Skye Kember
Skye’s aim is to build reciprocal relationships with the earth in community. Holding space for multiple ways of knowing, unravelling binaries and queering ecology. They are drawn to textiles and printmaking, exploring botanical inks and dyes with the materials they use being
at the centre of their work, conscious to reuse, sustainably forage, grow fibres, and to move away from mass consumerism through the sharing of slow crafts.
Kamila Krol
Kamila is a queer Polish illustrator and comics maker based in Cardiff. Her playful imagery is often inspired by dreams and folklore, and a lot of her work is focused on reviving and re-imagining elements of her Slavic heritage.
She’s the author of the award-winning “Rusalka: Whispers of the Forest” (Strangers Publishing) and has created artwork and short comic tales for clients such as Discord Comics, Beneficial Shock mag, Third Bear Press, Lucent Dreaming and Afterlight Comics.