56grwp is an exhibiting group of contemporary professional artists working across a wide range of media and concerns.
Thomas Goddard
I work in a range of media including video, performance, drawing, learning and
social arts practice.
My recent practice has explored the effect of digital technology on our lived
experience. My work feeds off our political, social and technological evolution (or
regression) through collaging historical narratives, making comments on the
future, all the while considered within the modes of science fiction and horror.
Robert Harding
Robert Harding still believes in the power of objects and so makes sculpture using fabrication, casting and collaged ‘found’ objects.
Carol Hiles
Carol Hiles is a painter whose interest lies in the interplay between the natural, man-made and imagined within public gardens. She is drawn to the encounter of formality and vivid nature in these staged spaces and explores their coexistence within her work
Sue Hiley Harris
Sue Hiley Harris describes herself as a sculptor weaver although recently much of her work includes drawing. It may be understood in relation to constructed abstract art, in both two or three dimensions, in which material, structure and form are interdependent.
Sue Hunt
Sue Hunt is known as a painter and printmaker, and has exhibited her work widely both in the UK and abroad.
The work is about life, birth, growth, development and fading towards extinction, which we share, as parallel eco residents, with the plant world.
Life can be brief, forceful, transient, fragile and diverse. These elements I recognize as becoming fundamental to my work, and it is the magnificence of this quiet reflected poignancy that I want to communicate.
Dilys Jackson
Dilys Jackson works in her studio and elsewhere in Cardiff. These works are from a pollen form series. Pollens have been on this planet for millennia before human life and will probably continue long after. They are essential for life on this planet to thrive.
Kay Keogh
To an outside observer, it may seem painting in a studio, appears to be quiet and relaxing. However, my experience is quite the reverse. Internally, I’m having funny weird conversations with myself, struggling with the paint, canvas and brushes, to communicate thoughts and feelings, which is tricky and exhausting.
Martyn Jones
Martyn Jones is a contemporary painter who works from his studio based in Cardiff, Wales, U.K.
‘I think ultimately in my paintings, I am searching for something unobtainable, a calm tranquility, an impossible form of transcendence, a perfect existence’.
Pauline Le Britton
I am a mixed media artist and foundry technician from Pembrokeshire. My work is a personal expression of memories and aspects of life, oscillating between what feels familiar and ordinary, and the unfamiliar – a realm that has a dark twist of the unknown. I work directly in paper or make moulds from found objects, animals and bones, the seashore and nature.
Alison Lochhead
Alison’s work reflects on the injustices and traumas endured by humanity. Her work despairs of the ongoing horror of conflict and war and the seeming inability of humans to learn from previous experience. She uses materials to depict what she wants to say ; whether fired in a kiln, melted in an iron cupola or paper and paint.
Tiff Oben
Tiff Oben is an artist. This is their most recent statement about art:
Important: Thinking, Imagining, Creating, Communicating, Collaborating, etc.
Unimportant: Failing, Selling, Perfecting, Criticising, Schmoozing, etc.
Heather Parnell
Heather Parnell’s practice seeks out potential in ordinary, overlooked and often discarded objects from her everyday experiences. She works habitually, repetitively, with multiples, drawing over, stitching into, casting off and printing from collected objects.
Jake Quinlan
Jake Quinlan is a contemporary artist living and working in South Wales. His practice is based on the lifestyle and emotional state of the common workingman, expressed through gestural abstraction. In 2023, Quinlan received a first-class-honours BA from the University of South Wales, and since has exhibited widely around the UK. Collections include private collections in the UK and USA, Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery, and The Estate of Dorothy Fratt, USA.
Corinthe Rizvi
Corinthe Rizvi’s work includes making & exhibiting and social practice / collaborative multidisciplinary arts.
She lives and works on the Isle of Lewis.
Peter Spriggs
“A painting, or a print, is eventually completed and there was nothing easy about this. It has layers of emotion and turmoil, time and labour, and eventually, resolution.”
Owain Sparnon
Owain Sparnon (Wales, 2000) is an artist based in Neath. His work addresses themes of memory, place and identity, through paint and collage. Creating works that respond to the artist’s everyday encounters, he’s intrigued by the notion of layering, unravelling, intertwining, and decontextualising the boundaries between objects, events and recollections.
Pete Williams
Pete Williams is a print-maker, with a long-standing reputation as a professional artist in Wales. He is the co-founder & director of the Print Market Project Cardiff, a fully equipped printmaking studio and gallery.
Exhibiting both nationally and internationally for over twenty years Williams has formed strong links in the world of print, in particular USA & China.