Art Space
Here are the exhibitions currently in Galeri:
SAFLE CELF | Making Merrie
Lewis Prosser, 08/02/25 – 29/03/25
Making Merrie by Lewis Prosser is a bilingual performance project exploring the folk theatre of the Wales/England border, inspired by mummers' plays and masked traditions. Featuring large wicker costumes crafted with traditional willow techniques, the project highlights sustainable craftsmanship and language as pathways to connect more deeply with the land.
Lewis Prosser, an absurdist basketmaker based in Wales, uses craft and performance to explore themes of regional identity, cultural exchange, and collective joy. His practice reimagines basketry not just as a functional craft but as a means to critique the commodification of heritage and to create new stories with old materials.
AR Y FFRAM | Mother Earth
Alice Burnhope, 28/01/25 – 07/04/25
This mobile of soft, tactile boulders draws inspiration from Anna Fleming’s words, folklore, and Welsh folk culture. Intertwining the physicality of rock, the mythical presence of giants, and the abstracted female form, the artwork invites us to reconnect with nature and rediscover our roles both within it and with each other. Crafted from reclaimed textiles, naturally dyed and lovingly patchworked, quilted, and fabricated, the soft, organic forms evoke the symbolism of Mother Earth—an enduring, nurturing force of birth and renewal. The textures and colours of the materials speak to the act of reinvention of both resources and our perceptions.
Alice Burnhope is an award-winning textile artist and artist educator based at Cockpit Studios, London. Her artistic practice explores sustainability, community engagement, and the sensory human experience through tactile, immersive artworks. Often drawing inspiration from rocks and geological formations, Alice’s creations reflect themes of connection to nature and mental wellbeing. She specialises in repurposing waste materials and employing traditional craft techniques such as natural dyeing, embroidery, patchwork, quilting, and pattern cutting, creating thoughtful and resourceful pieces that spark conversations around the environmental impact of textiles.
Y WAL | Hidden in Plain Sight
Janet Ruth Davies, 05/02/25 – 03/04/25
Hidden in Plain Sight is a series of photographs created through the practice of walking, locating and mapping erratic boulders once displaced by glaciers. An erratic is defined as glacially deposited rock that differs from the type of native rock on which it rests; here lies the perceptual relationship between the seen and the unseen. The work reimagines the historical 1831 walk Charles Darwin undertook when researching the geology of north Wales. Darwin set out to prove that a former ice age carved the peaks, valleys and coastline we experience today. As he traversed the once glaciated cirque of Cwm Idwal he discovered a group of erratic’s later to become known as Darwin’s’ boulders.
Janet Ruth Davies is an artist, photographer and educator living and working in north Wales. Her practice engages with the materiality and analog processes of photography, and is invested in the intersection of creative geologies, movement, and collaborative exchange. Janet holds an MA in Documentary Photography from the University of South Wales and advocates for creative learning and leadership in the new curriculum reform in Wales and Scotland. In addition, she is actively engaged as a community mapper as part of the Public Map Platform, whose aim is to empower communities to shape decisions rooted in local need, now and in the future for Ynys Mon.
Art Space Archive
Some of our past exhibitions
Interested in exhibiting your work here in Galeri?
Please contact our art and craft coordinator to discuss the application process and for further information:
ffion.evans@galericaernarfon
01286 685 208
