PWSH
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111 Queen Street, Cardiff, CF10 2AQ
Holiday Closing:25th December 2024 – 7th January 2025
This space will be collaboratively curated by lead artist and practitioner Rachel Kinchin and shared by two projects. PWSH and a yet to be named emerging Neurodiverse Arts Collective born out of creative wellness sessions for neurodivergent adults; Neurospicy Play Dates. PWSH artists have created joyful, radical murals celebrating difference and re-imagining public spaces across Cardiff. At the heart of bringing these two projects together in one space is meaningful inclusion, widening access to the arts and creative wellness for marginalised people.
PWSH is a public art project that includes illustrators, designers and multidisciplinary artists, working together over the last four years, to create and co-curate a city-wide mural project which grows yearly, supporting artists and sharing skills. They re-imagine and explore agency over public spaces.
The neurodiverse arts collective has emerged from weekly creative wellness sessions for people going through adult diagnosis. Their collective approach to arts and wellness is to play with techniques with a ‘fuck around and find out’ ethos. They work primarily in visual art including sculpture, installation, weaving, 2D, drawing, painting, collage, print, digital and textiles.
The Hypha space will be used to solidify the collective, and to make decisions about what an inclusive and intersectional neurodiverse arts collective looks like. They will create a collaborative manifesto, exploring the best way to include more artists. They will open up their weekly sessions “Neurospicy Play Dates” which allow for creative body doubling, discussions around making, adult diagnosis and wellness.
Activity will be supported by suggested donations, profits made from sales of prints and artwork, and Rachel will continue to seek funding.
Public programme
This will be a safe space for a smorgasboard of residencies, creative wellness sessions, art workshops, takeovers, exhibitions and body doubling sessions and they will have conversations with the local community. Artwork and prints will be for sale which will help the collectives sustain themselves and create future work.
They will partner with from Benthyg to create Wales’ first high street weekly pop-up library of arty things. The idea is to make art and wellness more accessible to more people by enabling people to loan materials for creativity (and be shown how they can be used).
Our Visual World will host weekly art clubs for Deaf creatives – Heather Williams is a member of Play Dates and Our Visual World.
They will always have public-facing window art live, so that the local community can access a little piece of public art at any time, day or night.
They are open to conversations and collaborations and encourage people to come say haia.
Access :
Please email if you find it a challenge to enter these spaces for whatever reason, we will try and be as inclusive as we can be to make your visit easier, we know it can be daunting. We can meet you to body double and you can come into the space when it is closed. We will also have masked, quiet and scent-free visiting times. It is a ground floor space, so is physically accessible and we have a gender-neutral toilet and a disabled toilet for visitors.
contact information
Email: [email protected] / [email protected]
Website: www.pwshcardiff.co.uk / www.rachelkinchin.co.uk
Socials: @pwshcdf / @rachelkinchin
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