Exhibition
ArcadeCampfa & Chapter Arts
Lu Williams
Acquisition Ongoing: Carbon Age Souvenirs is a new exhibition by artist Lu Williams. This installation in our café transforms the everyday environment into a speculative “gift shop”.
A series of sculptures combining resin, light and digital technologies reinterpret the fridge magnet as a future relic. Across these works and print paraphernalia, Williams explores how value is assigned to the ordinary and how memory is preserved, replicated and circulated in the era of AI.
Drawing on research into social history and the practices of collecting and replication, this fictional lens explores the familiar language of souvenirs – objects that are collected, gifted and handed down – offering a way to examine class, aspiration and taste.
Williams invites you to investigate how your daily life could be portrayed in the future. You’re invited to contribute designs to the evolving installation, using posters and zine templates, producing a collective reflection on memory, value and the afterlives of ordinary things.
How ordinary would your life look in hundreds of years’ time?
Join us for the opening celebration on Friday 29 May from 6–8pm. You can make magnet relics, add to the artwork and get a temporary tattoo! Free to drop in.
Lu Williams is an artist working across sculpture, print, zines and socially engaged projects. Their practice explores social history, labour and accessibility through the lens of queerness, neurodivergence and working-class experience. Drawing on processes of collecting, replication and distribution, Williams elevates everyday objects and overlooked cultural materials. They are the founder of Grrrl Zine Fair and co-founder of Dog Ear.
ArcadeCampfa & Chapter Arts
Lu Williams
Acquisition Ongoing: Carbon Age Souvenirs is a new exhibition by artist Lu Williams. This installation in our café transforms the everyday environment into a speculative “gift shop”.
A series of sculptures combining resin, light and digital technologies reinterpret the fridge magnet as a future relic. Across these works and print paraphernalia, Williams explores how value is assigned to the ordinary and how memory is preserved, replicated and circulated in the era of AI.
Drawing on research into social history and the practices of collecting and replication, this fictional lens explores the familiar language of souvenirs – objects that are collected, gifted and handed down – offering a way to examine class, aspiration and taste.
Williams invites you to investigate how your daily life could be portrayed in the future. You’re invited to contribute designs to the evolving installation, using posters and zine templates, producing a collective reflection on memory, value and the afterlives of ordinary things.
How ordinary would your life look in hundreds of years’ time?
Join us for the opening celebration on Friday 29 May from 6–8pm. You can make magnet relics, add to the artwork and get a temporary tattoo! Free to drop in.
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Lu Williams is an artist working across sculpture, print, zines and socially engaged projects. Their practice explores social history, labour and accessibility through the lens of queerness, neurodivergence and working-class experience. Drawing on processes of collecting, replication and distribution, Williams elevates everyday objects and overlooked cultural materials. They are the founder of Grrrl Zine Fair and co-founder of Dog Ear.
Commissioned by Arcade Campfa in partnership with Chapter.
Comisiynwyd gan Arcade Campfa mewn partneriaeth â Chapter.
Arddangosfa newydd gan yr artist Lu Williams yw Acquisition Ongoing: Carbon Age Souvenirs. Mae’r gosodwaith yma yn ein caffi yn trawsnewid yr amgylchedd bob dydd yn “siop roddion” ddyfaliadol.
Mae cyfres o gerfluniau yn cyfuno resin, golau a thechnolegau digidol i ail-ddehongli’r magnet oergell fel crair yn y dyfodol. Ar draws y gwaith a’r paraffernalia print yma, mae Lu yn archwilio sut caiff gwerth ei ddynodi i’r cyffredin a sut caiff cof ei gadw, ei ddyblygu, a’i gylchredeg yn oes deallusrwydd artiffisial.
Gan ddefnyddio ymchwil i hanes cymdeithasol ac arferion casglu ac atgynhyrchu, mae’r lens ffuglennol yma’n archwilio iaith gyfarwydd y cofrodd – gwrthrychau sy’n cael eu casglu, eu rhoi, a’u pasio i lawr – gan gynnig ffordd o archwilio dosbarth, dyhead a chwaeth.
Mae Lu Williams yn eich gwahodd i ymchwilio sut gallai eich bywyd beunyddiol gael ei bortreadu yn y dyfodol. Mae gwahoddiad i chi gyfrannu dyluniadau i’r gosodwaith esblygol, gan ddefnyddio templedi cylchgronau a phosteri, i gynhyrchu cyd-fyfyrdod ar gof, gwerth, ac ôl-fywyd pethau cyffredin.
Pa mor gyffredin fyddai eich bywyd yn edrych mewn cannoedd o flynyddoedd?
Ymunwch â ni yn y dathliad agoriadol nos Wener 29 Mai 6–8pm. Gallwch greu creiriau magnet, ychwanegu at y gwaith celf, a chael tatŵ dros dro! Galwch heibio am ddim.
Artist sy’n gweithio ar draws cerflunwaith, print, cylchgronau a phrosiectau cymdeithasol yw Lu Williams. Mae eu harfer yn archwilio hanes cymdeithasol, llafur, a hygyrchedd drwy lens cwiardod, niwroamrywiaeth, a phrofiad dosbarth gweithiol. Gan dynnu ar brosesau casglu, atgynhyrchu a dosbarthu, mae Lu yn dyrchafu gwrthrychau bob dydd a deunyddiau diwylliannol sy’n cael eu diystyru. Nhw yw sylfaenydd Grrrl Zine Fair a chyd-sylfaenydd Dog Ear.
Mae cyfres o gerfluniau yn cyfuno resin, golau a thechnolegau digidol i ail-ddehongli’r magnet oergell fel crair yn y dyfodol. Ar draws y gwaith a’r paraffernalia print yma, mae Lu yn archwilio sut caiff gwerth ei ddynodi i’r cyffredin a sut caiff cof ei gadw, ei ddyblygu, a’i gylchredeg yn oes deallusrwydd artiffisial.
Gan ddefnyddio ymchwil i hanes cymdeithasol ac arferion casglu ac atgynhyrchu, mae’r lens ffuglennol yma’n archwilio iaith gyfarwydd y cofrodd – gwrthrychau sy’n cael eu casglu, eu rhoi, a’u pasio i lawr – gan gynnig ffordd o archwilio dosbarth, dyhead a chwaeth.
Mae Lu Williams yn eich gwahodd i ymchwilio sut gallai eich bywyd beunyddiol gael ei bortreadu yn y dyfodol. Mae gwahoddiad i chi gyfrannu dyluniadau i’r gosodwaith esblygol, gan ddefnyddio templedi cylchgronau a phosteri, i gynhyrchu cyd-fyfyrdod ar gof, gwerth, ac ôl-fywyd pethau cyffredin.
Pa mor gyffredin fyddai eich bywyd yn edrych mewn cannoedd o flynyddoedd?
Ymunwch â ni yn y dathliad agoriadol nos Wener 29 Mai 6–8pm. Gallwch greu creiriau magnet, ychwanegu at y gwaith celf, a chael tatŵ dros dro! Galwch heibio am ddim.
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Artist sy’n gweithio ar draws cerflunwaith, print, cylchgronau a phrosiectau cymdeithasol yw Lu Williams. Mae eu harfer yn archwilio hanes cymdeithasol, llafur, a hygyrchedd drwy lens cwiardod, niwroamrywiaeth, a phrofiad dosbarth gweithiol. Gan dynnu ar brosesau casglu, atgynhyrchu a dosbarthu, mae Lu yn dyrchafu gwrthrychau bob dydd a deunyddiau diwylliannol sy’n cael eu diystyru. Nhw yw sylfaenydd Grrrl Zine Fair a chyd-sylfaenydd Dog Ear.
Library Residency
ArcadeCampfa & Cardiff & Vale Libraries
Mab Jones
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Your Words Belong Here Too is a participatory poetry and making project that invites visitors to contribute words around the themes of Hopes, Fears, Memories and Truths. Through collection boxes and writing sessions, these will be gathered and shaped into a collective poem.
Mab Jones will then transform these contributions into wearable pieces and larger installations using recycled acrylic, repurposed scrap, and textile techniques. The works will take the form of pendants, brooches, headpieces, and other jewellery.
Alongside these, larger modular and hanging text installations will grow over time within the libraries. The residency will culminate in a celebratory event where the works are activated and worn, and a collective poem created from participants’ contributions is read aloud.
This project aims to showcase the hidden ‘books’ of people’s inner lives, making them visible and part of a public space in which every voice is counted and all stories belong.
Mab Jones is a writer and maker working across text, participation and material practice. Her work explores how language moves between people – spoken and written, sounded and made physical – through creative processes that foster connection and a sense of belonging. She combines collaborative writing, ethnographic listening and craft-based making to create poems, installations and wearable text works.
Mab has developed participatory projects in libraries, galleries and community settings, translating collected words into performance, print, audio, and sculptural forms. Her past residencies include the National Botanic Garden of Wales, the Dylan Thomas Boathouse, Cardiff Wetlands, and Henleaze Library.
Alongside her creative practice, Mab is a small press publisher, broadcaster, sound and energy therapist, and will shortly be a qualified laughter yoga facilitator. Her practice is rooted in care, connection, collaboration, and in making space so that hidden or overlooked voices – whether others’ or our own – can resonate, surface and find form.
︎ www.mabjones.co.uk
ArcadeCampfa & Cardiff & Vale Libraries
Mab Jones
Your Words Belong Here Too is a participatory poetry and making project that invites visitors to contribute words around the themes of Hopes, Fears, Memories and Truths. Through collection boxes and writing sessions, these will be gathered and shaped into a collective poem.
Mab Jones will then transform these contributions into wearable pieces and larger installations using recycled acrylic, repurposed scrap, and textile techniques. The works will take the form of pendants, brooches, headpieces, and other jewellery.
Alongside these, larger modular and hanging text installations will grow over time within the libraries. The residency will culminate in a celebratory event where the works are activated and worn, and a collective poem created from participants’ contributions is read aloud.
This project aims to showcase the hidden ‘books’ of people’s inner lives, making them visible and part of a public space in which every voice is counted and all stories belong.
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Mab Jones is a writer and maker working across text, participation and material practice. Her work explores how language moves between people – spoken and written, sounded and made physical – through creative processes that foster connection and a sense of belonging. She combines collaborative writing, ethnographic listening and craft-based making to create poems, installations and wearable text works.
Mab has developed participatory projects in libraries, galleries and community settings, translating collected words into performance, print, audio, and sculptural forms. Her past residencies include the National Botanic Garden of Wales, the Dylan Thomas Boathouse, Cardiff Wetlands, and Henleaze Library.
Alongside her creative practice, Mab is a small press publisher, broadcaster, sound and energy therapist, and will shortly be a qualified laughter yoga facilitator. Her practice is rooted in care, connection, collaboration, and in making space so that hidden or overlooked voices – whether others’ or our own – can resonate, surface and find form.
︎ www.mabjones.co.uk
Project barddoniaeth a chreu cyfranogol yw ‘Your Words Belong Here Too’ sy’n gwahodd ymwelwyr i gyfrannu geiriau’n ymwneud â’u Gobeithion, Ofnau, Atgofion a Gwirioneddau. Drwy flychau casglu a sesiynau sgwennu, bydd y cyfraniadau hyn yn cael eu casglu a’u ffurfio’n gerdd casglebol. Wedyn bydd mab Jones yn trawsnewid y cyfraniadau hyn yn ddarnau y gellir eu gwisgo ac yn osodiadau mwy o faint gan ddefnyddio acrylig a algylchwyd, sgraps a ailbwrpaswyd, a thechnegau tecstilau. Bydd y gweithiau’n bodoli ar ffurf tlysau, broetshis, penwisgoedd, a gemwaith amrywiol. Yn ogystal â’r rhain, bydd gosodiadau modwlar mwy o faint yn tyfu dros amser o fewn y llyfrgelloedd. Penllanw’r preswyliad fydd digwyddiad dathliadol lle bydd y gweithiau’n dod yn fyw wrth gael eu gwisgo, a bydd cerdd gasglebol yn cael ei chreu mas o gyfraniadau’r cyfranogwyr, gaiff ei darllen yn gyhoeddus.
Bwriad y project hwn yn arddangos y ‘llyfrau’ sydd ynghudd ym mywydau mewnol pobl, gan eu gwneud yn weledol ac yn rhan o ofod cyhoeddus lle mae pob llais yn cyfrif ac mae lle i bob stori.
Sgwennwr sy’n creu yw Mab Jones, yn cynnal ei hymarfer drwy greu gwaith testun, gwaith cyfranogol a defnyddio deunyddiau. Mae ei gwaith yn archwilio’r modd y mae iaith yn symud rhwng pobl – y gair ysgrifenedig a’r gair llafar, wedi ei seinio a’i droi’n beth ffisegol – drwy brosesau creadigol sy’n meithrin cysylltiad ac ymdeimlad o berthyn.
Mae hi’n cyfuno sgwennu casglebol, gwrando ethnograffegol a chrefftio er mwyn llunio cerddi, gosodwaith a gweithiau testun y gellir eu gwisgo.
Mae Mab wedi datblygu projectau cyfranogol mewn llyfrgelloedd, orielau a lleoliadau cymunedol, gan drosi geiriau y mae wedi eu casglu i fod yn berfformiadau, gwaith argraffu, sain a ffurfiau cerfluniol. Mae ei phreswylfeydd blaenorol wedi cynnwys rhai yng Ngerddi Botaneg Cenedlaethol Cymru, Tŷ Cwch Dylan Thomas, Gwlyptiroedd Caerdydd, a Llyfrgell Henleaze.
Yn ogystal â’i hymarfer creadigol, mae Mab yn rhedeg gwasg fechan, yn darlledu, yn therapydd sain ac egni, a chyn bo hir fe fydd hi wedi cymhwyso fel hwylusydd ioga chwerthin. Wrth wraidd ei hymarfer mae gofal, cysylltiad, cydweithio, a chreu gofod fel y gall lleisiau cudd neu anweledig – ni ein hunain neu pobl eraill – atseinio, dod i’r wyneb a chanfod ffurf.
︎ www.mabjones.co.uk
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Bwriad y project hwn yn arddangos y ‘llyfrau’ sydd ynghudd ym mywydau mewnol pobl, gan eu gwneud yn weledol ac yn rhan o ofod cyhoeddus lle mae pob llais yn cyfrif ac mae lle i bob stori.
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Sgwennwr sy’n creu yw Mab Jones, yn cynnal ei hymarfer drwy greu gwaith testun, gwaith cyfranogol a defnyddio deunyddiau. Mae ei gwaith yn archwilio’r modd y mae iaith yn symud rhwng pobl – y gair ysgrifenedig a’r gair llafar, wedi ei seinio a’i droi’n beth ffisegol – drwy brosesau creadigol sy’n meithrin cysylltiad ac ymdeimlad o berthyn.
Mae hi’n cyfuno sgwennu casglebol, gwrando ethnograffegol a chrefftio er mwyn llunio cerddi, gosodwaith a gweithiau testun y gellir eu gwisgo.
Mae Mab wedi datblygu projectau cyfranogol mewn llyfrgelloedd, orielau a lleoliadau cymunedol, gan drosi geiriau y mae wedi eu casglu i fod yn berfformiadau, gwaith argraffu, sain a ffurfiau cerfluniol. Mae ei phreswylfeydd blaenorol wedi cynnwys rhai yng Ngerddi Botaneg Cenedlaethol Cymru, Tŷ Cwch Dylan Thomas, Gwlyptiroedd Caerdydd, a Llyfrgell Henleaze.
Yn ogystal â’i hymarfer creadigol, mae Mab yn rhedeg gwasg fechan, yn darlledu, yn therapydd sain ac egni, a chyn bo hir fe fydd hi wedi cymhwyso fel hwylusydd ioga chwerthin. Wrth wraidd ei hymarfer mae gofal, cysylltiad, cydweithio, a chreu gofod fel y gall lleisiau cudd neu anweledig – ni ein hunain neu pobl eraill – atseinio, dod i’r wyneb a chanfod ffurf.
︎ www.mabjones.co.uk
Library Residency
ArcadeCampfa & Cardiff & Vale Libraries
Dela Anderson
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How does the loss of public spaces affect our access to leisure? What does our leisure time tell us about who we are? And can nostalgia be a useful tool for imagining better towns in the future?
The seaside towns of Barry and Penarth both became tourist destinations from the late 1800s onwards and have since experienced a golden age and gradual decline. Lidos, hotels, and fairground rides have been lost but not forgotten.
Using my own nostalgia from days spent in Barry and Penarth as a child as an entry point, I will explore nostalgia for lost leisure spaces by engaging with local literature, archival images and oral histories. The residency will culminate in a printed ‘guidebook’ zine using writing, photography and printmaking.
Dela Anderson is an artist and producer from Cardiff. She is currently exploring nostalgia and lost memories through printmaking, painting and writing - drawing on anecdotes, group-chats, treasured belongings and photographs.
Her series 'Although I did not live on St Paul’s Avenue' included domestic scenes lino- and mono- printed on silk, inspired by a headscarf worn by my Jamaican grandmother who migrated to Barry in the late 1950s. The works were acquired by the National Library of Wales.
Dela has a Foundation diploma in Art and Design and went on to study human geography at King’s College London. With her background in geography, she is interested in how one place can host ‘flows’ of people, objects and cultures. She has previously worked as a producer/facilitator working on participatory projects with artists and people using social care services within a gallery and local council setting.
︎ @dela.anderson.celf
ArcadeCampfa & Cardiff & Vale Libraries
Dela Anderson
How does the loss of public spaces affect our access to leisure? What does our leisure time tell us about who we are? And can nostalgia be a useful tool for imagining better towns in the future?
The seaside towns of Barry and Penarth both became tourist destinations from the late 1800s onwards and have since experienced a golden age and gradual decline. Lidos, hotels, and fairground rides have been lost but not forgotten.
Using my own nostalgia from days spent in Barry and Penarth as a child as an entry point, I will explore nostalgia for lost leisure spaces by engaging with local literature, archival images and oral histories. The residency will culminate in a printed ‘guidebook’ zine using writing, photography and printmaking.
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Dela Anderson is an artist and producer from Cardiff. She is currently exploring nostalgia and lost memories through printmaking, painting and writing - drawing on anecdotes, group-chats, treasured belongings and photographs.
Her series 'Although I did not live on St Paul’s Avenue' included domestic scenes lino- and mono- printed on silk, inspired by a headscarf worn by my Jamaican grandmother who migrated to Barry in the late 1950s. The works were acquired by the National Library of Wales.
Dela has a Foundation diploma in Art and Design and went on to study human geography at King’s College London. With her background in geography, she is interested in how one place can host ‘flows’ of people, objects and cultures. She has previously worked as a producer/facilitator working on participatory projects with artists and people using social care services within a gallery and local council setting.
︎ @dela.anderson.celf
Sut mae diflaniad gofodau cyhoeddus yn effeithio ar ein gallu i hamddena? A yw hiraeth yn offeryn defnyddiol ar gyfer dychmygu gwell trefi yn y dyfodol? Daeth pentrefi glan môr Y Barri a Phenarth ill dau yn lleoliadau twristaidd o ddiwedd y 1800au ymlaen ac ers hynny profwyd oes aur cyn dirywiad graddol. Mae pyllau nofio, gwestai a reidiau ffair wedi cael eu colli, heb fynd yn angof.
Gan seilio’r project ar fy hiraeth fy hun am dreulio dyddiau plentyndod yn Y Barri a Phenarth, byddaf yn archwilio’r syniad o hiraeth am lefydd hamdden colledig drwy ymwneud â llenyddiaeth leol, lluniau archifol a hanesion llafar. Penllanw’r preswyliad fydd ‘canllaw’ ar ffurf zine, yn defnyddio sgwennu, ffotograffiaeth a phrint.
Artist a chynhyrchydd o Gaerdydd yw Dela Anderson. Ar hyn o bryd mae hi’n archwilio hiraeth ac atgofion colledig drwy gyfrwng argraffwaith, paentio a sgwennu – gan ddefnyddio straeon, negeseuon grŵp ffôn symudol, trysorau personol a ffotograffau.
Roedd ei chyfres 'Although I did not live on St Paul’s Avenue' yn cynnwys golygfeydd domestig a argraffwyd mewn dull leino a mono ar sidan, oedd yn dwyn ysbrydoliaeth o benwisg yr oedd ei mamgu Jamacaidd yn gwisgo, a fudodd i’r Barri yn hwyr yn y 1950au. Cafodd y gweithiau eu caffael gan Lyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru.
Mae gan Dela ddiploma Sylfaen mewn Celf a Dylunio ac aeth ymlaen i astudio daearyddiaeth ddynol yng Ngholeg y Brenin, Llundain. Gyda’i chefndir mewn daearyddiaeth, mae ganddi ddiddordeb yn y modd y gall un lle unigol gynnal ‘llif’ o bobl, gwrthrychau a diwylliannau. Yn y gorffennol mae wedi gweithio fel cynhyrchydd/hwylusydd ar brojectau cyfranogol gydag artistiaid a phobl sy’n defnyddio gwasanaethau gofal cymdeithasol o fewn oriel ac adeilad cyngor lleol.
︎ @dela.anderson.celf
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Gan seilio’r project ar fy hiraeth fy hun am dreulio dyddiau plentyndod yn Y Barri a Phenarth, byddaf yn archwilio’r syniad o hiraeth am lefydd hamdden colledig drwy ymwneud â llenyddiaeth leol, lluniau archifol a hanesion llafar. Penllanw’r preswyliad fydd ‘canllaw’ ar ffurf zine, yn defnyddio sgwennu, ffotograffiaeth a phrint.
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Artist a chynhyrchydd o Gaerdydd yw Dela Anderson. Ar hyn o bryd mae hi’n archwilio hiraeth ac atgofion colledig drwy gyfrwng argraffwaith, paentio a sgwennu – gan ddefnyddio straeon, negeseuon grŵp ffôn symudol, trysorau personol a ffotograffau.
Roedd ei chyfres 'Although I did not live on St Paul’s Avenue' yn cynnwys golygfeydd domestig a argraffwyd mewn dull leino a mono ar sidan, oedd yn dwyn ysbrydoliaeth o benwisg yr oedd ei mamgu Jamacaidd yn gwisgo, a fudodd i’r Barri yn hwyr yn y 1950au. Cafodd y gweithiau eu caffael gan Lyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru.
Mae gan Dela ddiploma Sylfaen mewn Celf a Dylunio ac aeth ymlaen i astudio daearyddiaeth ddynol yng Ngholeg y Brenin, Llundain. Gyda’i chefndir mewn daearyddiaeth, mae ganddi ddiddordeb yn y modd y gall un lle unigol gynnal ‘llif’ o bobl, gwrthrychau a diwylliannau. Yn y gorffennol mae wedi gweithio fel cynhyrchydd/hwylusydd ar brojectau cyfranogol gydag artistiaid a phobl sy’n defnyddio gwasanaethau gofal cymdeithasol o fewn oriel ac adeilad cyngor lleol.
︎ @dela.anderson.celf
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