Dylan Huw
To launch our new series of artist-led sharing events at Platfform 2, we’ll be joined by writer and Casgleb collaborator Dylan Huw, and artist, designer and maker George Hampton Wale.
About the Artists
Dylan Huw is a writer living in Cardiff. He is currently the Jerwood Arts Writer in Residence and a 2022-3 Future Wales Fellow. As part of the Casgleb collaboration hosted by Peak, Dylan has been developing Pegwn, an artist forum for sharing work and ideas around Cymraeg, language’s role in a future (particularly rural) Wales, and its relationship to artistic practice.
Dylan will share some of the thinking and beginnings of new work which emerged from a recent series of gatherings at Platfform 2 with artists Llinos Anwyl, Jenny Cashmore, Bob Evans, fin Jordão, Esyllt Angharad Lewis, Marva Jackson Lord, Nia Morais, Rowan O’Neill and Gwenllian Spink, as well as a publication documenting this iteration of the Pegwn programme. Over the course of a month, the group dug into the knotty, complex pleasures, and tensions, of working and playing with the multiple languages of Wales, testing what new kinds of thinking and collaborating might emerge from a fluidly multilingual space, without direct translation or any expectation that everyone would be on the same page linguistically.
George Hampton Wale, image by Polly Thomas, Surgarloaf at g39
George Hampton Wale is an Abergavenny-based artist. With a background in visual arts, movement, design and making, their practice explores themes of place, belonging, and queer-identity. With experience in prop making, costume design, and prosthetic fabrication, George developed a specialism in large-scale costume fabrication over several years, working as a costume artist on projects such as James Bachelor’s an “Evening-Length Performance” and Corin Sworn and Claricia Parinussa’s “eco-co-location”.
George will introduce their practice and talk through some recent work developed during the g39 Jerwood UNITe Residency in Cardiff, where they created large-scale dancing wind sculptures that allude to the paradox of bodies being simultaneously out of, and within, one’s control. Following on from this residency, George is exploring the performative potential of sculpture through dance and movement, and we’ll hear more about how this is unfolding.
This event series is a part of Casgleb, a year-long collaborative research partnership between Peak, Transport for Wales, Young People, Pegwn and LUMIN. Casgleb is supported by the Arts Council of Wales’ Connect and Flourish fund.