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SUMMARY:Hidden Voices of Power
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image source=”featured_image” img_size=”large”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Hidden Voices of Power is a collective of five black biracial artists from Wales. By exhibiting together in Swansea for the first time as part of Black History Month in October 2023 we will showcase black biracial talent from Wales. We will use our work to tell our powerful stories and explore our black and biracial identity as artists trained and living in Wales. We aim to become the role models we never had as growing up in Wales as diverse young artists.\n\n\n\n\nHidden Voices of Power is led by Nathan Thomas assisted by Melissa Rodrigues, both neurodivergent artists from the BAME community. We wanted to come together to explore black and biracial identity in Wales through our work and to create the kind of exhibition we never saw ourselves growing up as black and biracial artists now living and working in Wales.\nThe collective brings together five artists from diverse backgrounds, and also neurodiverse artists, to tell our stories and create work which is relevant to and resonates with BME communities.\nOur exhibition at Elysium Gallery,  Swansea, will run throughout October 2023 during Black History Month. It will be accompanied by a short trailer and 5-7 minute documentary made by Nathan and sharing the stories and work of the artists.\nAs a group of emerging artists trained in Wales we feel the work in galleries around the UK does not reflect our heritage or biracial identity. Just 2,000 artworks in the UK’s permanent art collections are by Black artists – most of which aren’t on display. Two thousand may sound a lot but the National Gallery alone has over 2,300 works and there are over 1,400 galleries in the UK.\nSuccess for us is about building awareness of the collective and developing a voice for black and biracial artists in and from Wales. We want to reach into our own communities and create a very different audience for visual art, sharing work drawn from our own stories and those of the black and minority ethnic communities we belong to in Wales and embracing neuro diverse audiences.\n \nArtists involved:-\nNathan Thomas is a Swansea based artist with a Masters degree in Moving Image from Trinity St David’s. Nathan is second generation British Jamaican; his grandparents having arrived in the UK on the Windrush and his father is from the South Wales Valleys.\nMelissa Milanca Balecante Rodrigues is a Swansea based artist who graduated from University of Wales Trinity St David and a founding member of the Art Collective Axe Head to Everything.\nJoel Morris is an artist based in South West Wales who practices photorealism in charcoal, mainly consisting of both traditional and dynamic portraits of people and animals.\n \nAna Amira is a qualified teacher who is currently completing her MA in Art at Trinity St David’s. Ana is a landscape painter and film maker.\n \nJasmine Violet began their professional artistic journey in the Welsh art scene after finishing art school in 2020.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]\n
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LOCATION:210 High St, Swansea SA1 1PE, United Kingdom
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