We are visual artists working in the political and social sphere and our work draws its aspiration and ethos from the twin imperatives of social justice and ecological sustainability.

We have worked from Cardiff for 40 years tackling these issues in the post-industrial landscape of Wales, an experience which has shaped and fortified our international perspective. Our practice is critically acclaimed for its contemporary ingenuity and prescience.

Projects contribute to the ongoing discourse around art, architecture, people and place and draw collaborators from across a wide range of disciplines including computing and informatics, physics, politics, law, the educational sector, community development and the social sciences. Our intuitive practice with materials and technologies manifests as media and installation, live art and performance work which deliberately defies characterisation. Its continuity of form and content falls beyond the common expectations and assumptions normally associated with art practice.

In the early years we were influenced by cybernetics, and have consistently drawn on new technology, being early to see a creative potential in computing. Another influence is Artist Placement Group (APG) and how the artist's role in the world is to be socially relevant and to make a difference. Our evolving ideas about cultural production are lately focussed in working with people in communities and organisations. The conversations we have become a catalyst from which artworks grow that embody, often in abstract form and sound, key concerns and aspirations of those host communities.

One medium we give more attention to in our recent work is sound. We are learning about the health of environments and the well-being of communities by listening to them and using the sound signatures we hear to tell their stories.

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“At its core, artstation uses art as a social, environmental and cultural regenerative community tool, explicitly challenging and changing people’s perceptions, often in unexpected and fun ways, to enable them to think differently about the world and their place in it. Their projects have galvanised community actions across the world. Artstation’s work provides a great metaphor for what I hope the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act will do in Wales – change the people of Wales’ perceptions and enable them to use the Welsh Government’s ‘permission to think differently’ to pursue a different path to a kinder, healthier, greener, more prosperous Wales, playing to our strengths whilst living within our environmental limits.

Some people are visual thinkers, I’m not. There is an age-old adage that governments campaign in poetry and govern in prose. While writing the book that explores the opportunity of the Wellbeing of Future Generations (Wales) Act, I’ve found the images from Artstation’s projects not only to be imprinted clearly in my mind, but a symbol of hope of the value of peoples’ engagement with wicked issues for new and better outcomes. As a made in Wales project, they illuminate the text for me, I hope they do for you too. Enjoy!”

Ex. Welsh Minister Jane Davidson, May 2020

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