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Georgia Ruth launches her fifth album, Uncanny Valley, with a unique immersive live performance at CULTVR @cultvrlab

On 13 November, we'll transform our 12-metre immersive dome into a sensory journey through the suburban landscapes that inspired her new album.

Rooted in Georgia's experience of moving from Aberystwyth to the rural outskirts, Uncanny Valley explores domestic life, the comfort of home and the uneasy relationship between safety and uncertainty.

Featuring photography by Abby Poulson @abpoulson, whose work also forms the album artwork, and videography by Sam Stevens @sam.ffoto all brought to life within our 360° immersive environment.

With special guest Ani Glass @ani_glass opening the night.

📅 Friday 13 November
📍 CULTVR LAB, Cardiff
🎟️ Tickets via link in bio.

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Curating Otherwise: Darllen y Dirwedd | Reading the Landscape ⛰️

Pennod 1 | Chapter 1

(English below)

Mis Awst yma croesawom grŵp o bobl ifanc i gymryd rhan yn Curating Otherwise: Darllen y Dirwedd, diwrnod o archwilio creadigol dan arweiniad ein Rheolwr Ymgysylltu, Abby Poulson, a chyfranwyr lleol, fel rhan o raglen gyhoeddus a gomisiynwyd gan Southbank Centre ac a gyflwynwyd gan HOUSE OF DREAD.

Gan ddechrau yn Oriel Myrddin, archwiliodd y cyfranogwyr sut mae tirweddau’n dod yn rhan o’n cof diwylliannol a sut mae’r lleoedd o’n cwmpas yn parhau i newid dros amser. Trwy drafodaeth, creu collage a myfyrio ar y cyd, siaradon ni amdano sut allwn arsylwi byd sy’n newid o hyd yn Sir Gaerfyrddin a'r Dyffryn Tywi.

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This August we welcomed a group of young people to take part in Curating Otherwise: Reading the Landscape, a day of creative exploration led by our Engagement Manager, Abby Poulson and local contributors, as part of a public programme commissioned by Southbank Centre and delivered by HOUSE OF DREAD.

Beginning at Oriel Myrddin, participants explored how landscapes become part of our cultural memory and how the places around us continue to change over time. Through discussion, collage-making and collective reflection, we spoke about how we observe a world changing in real time in Carmarthenshire & the Towy Valley.

Diolch i'r canlynol a cyfrannodd ymchwil artistig a diwyllianol i ni archwilio // Thank you to the following who contributed artistic and cultural research and ephemera for us to explore:

Kathryn Campbell Dodd @kathryncampbelldodd
Lauren Heckler @lauren.h3ckler
Emily Laurens @emilymlaurens
Katie Millen (Archifau Sir Gaerfyrddin / Carmarthenshire Archives)
Elinor James (Gardd Fotaneg Genedlaethol Cymru / National Botanic Garden of Wales)
Sarah Rhys @sarah.rhys
Peter Finnemore @peter.finnemore
Carmarthen Collectibles @carmarthencollectibles

Diolch i Joshua Jones am hwyluso'r gweithdai [for facilitating the workshops]

Pennod 2 yn dod yn fuan // Chapter 2 coming soon

@houseofdread_ @southbankcentre @abpoulson

📸: @heather.birnie

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⚖️ Jack Moyse: A Sorry State

📍 Oriel Sploj, Machynlleth
📅 Public Preview: Thursday 1 October, 6:30–9:30pm

What happens when the welfare state fails the people who depend on it?

A Sorry State explores the realities of navigating a broken welfare system in Wales, challenging the rhetoric that vilifies those who rely on state support.

Produced in collaboration with people with lived experience of disability, the project brings together photography, installation, sculpture and performance, translating their experiences of the welfare system into artwork.

Jack Moyse is a photographer and artist based in Swansea, whose practice focuses on societal issues including ableism and mental health.

A Sorry State is a project funded by the Welsh Arts Council, produced in collaboration with Menna Buss, Abby Poulson, GS Artists, 9to90 Creative Community, Oriel Sploj, Disability Arts Cymru and Ffotogallery.

🗓️ Open until 29 October 2026
📍 Unit 2, Bank Lane, Machynlleth, SY20 8EL

🔗 Link in bio for full exhibition listings

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⚖️ Jack Moyse: A Sorry State

📍 Oriel Sploj, Machynlleth
📅 Rhagolwg Cyhoeddus: Dydd Iau 1 Hydref, 6:30–9:30pm

Beth sy’n digwydd pan fo’r wladwriaeth les yn methu’r bobl sy’n dibynnu arni?

Mae A Sorry State yn archwilio realiti llywio system les sydd wedi torri yng Nghymru, gan herio’r rhethreg sy’n pardduo’r rhai sy’n dibynnu ar gymorth y wladwriaeth.

Wedi’i gynhyrchu ar y cyd â phobl sydd â phrofiad byw o anabledd, mae’r prosiect yn cyfuno ffotograffiaeth, gosodiadau, cerflunwaith a pherfformiad, gan drawsnewid eu profiadau o’r system les yn waith celf.

Mae Jack Moyse yn ffotograffydd ac artist o Abertawe, ac mae ei waith yn canolbwyntio ar faterion cymdeithasol gan gynnwys galluogrwydd ac iechyd meddwl.

Mae A Sorry State yn brosiect a ariennir gan Gyngor Celfyddydau Cymru, a gynhyrchwyd mewn cydweithrediad â Menna Buss, Abby Poulson, GS Artists, 9to90 Creative Community, Oriel Sploj, Disability Arts Cymru a Ffotogallery.

🗓️ Ar agor tan 29 Hydref 2026
📍 Uned 2, Bank Lane, Machynlleth, SY20 8EL

🔗 Dolen yn y bio am restr lawn o’r arddangosfeydd

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Curating Otherwise: Reading the Landscape. Commissioned by @southbankcentre and delivered by @houseofdread_ with the brilliant @holly_dwyer

Heddiw - Curating Otherwise: Reading the Landscape, wedi’i gomisiynu gan South Bank Centre gyda House of Dread.

With notes and prompts at Paxton’s Tower from/ nodiadau ac awgrymiadau yn Tŵr Paxton wrth @joshuajoneswrites @abpoulson

Thanks to @abpoulson @joshuajoneswrites @leemagray for your brilliant session today at Oriel Myrddin, with fieldnotes across Carmarthen and Paxton’s Tower.

Diolch i (tagged above) am y sesiwn wych heddiw yn Oriel Myrddin, gyda nodiadau dros yr ardal Caerfyrddin a Thŵr Paxton.

Poster for the new public programme by HOUSE OF DREAD, commissioned by Southbank Centre.

Poster am y prosiect newydd gan HOUSE OF DREAD, gyda cefnogaeth gan Southbank Centre.

I spent quite some time considering this patch of concrete surrounded by heat-singed grass near the tower, and wrote a short piece about data centres and the notion of ‘ruin’ as a wildfire smoked in the distance.

Nes i arfer dipyn o amser yn ystyried y lle goncrit hwn, wedi’i amgylchynu gan porfa sych, ac ysgrifennais ddarn byr am ganolfannau data, y syniad o ‘ruin’ gyda’r tan wyllt yn y bellder.

During ‘Curating Otherwise: Reading the Landscape’ we look at the wildfire.

Dyma llyn o’r grwp yn edrych ar y tan wyllt.

Collectively writing about ruin.

Ysgrifennu gyda’n gilydd am ddinistr.

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⏰ Final week!

There’s just a few days left to experience two of our current exhibitions before they close on Saturday 1 August.

📸 Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 5 presents thought-provoking new commissions by awardees Roman Manfredi and Sayuri Ichida, bringing together photography, moving image, sound and installation.

🖤 Jack Moyse: A Sorry State explores disability, welfare and social systems through photography, installation, sculpture and performance, developed in collaboration with people with lived experience.

💬 Join us on Thursday 30 July (6–8pm) for Gwaith: Jack Moyse in Conversation with Abby Poulson and Tudor Rhys Etchells—a free, informal discussion inspired by the exhibition.

📍 Ffotogallery, Cardiff
🕛 Wed–Sat | 12–5pm
🎟️ Free admission

See you before they close. Link in bio.

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⏰ Wythnos olaf!

Dim ond ychydig ddyddiau sydd ar ôl i weld dwy o’n harddangosfeydd presennol cyn iddynt gau ar ddydd Sadwrn 1 Awst.

📸 Mae Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 5 yn cyflwyno comisiynau newydd uchelgeisiol gan yr enillwyr Roman Manfredi a Sayuri Ichida, gan gyfuno ffotograffiaeth, delwedd symudol, sain a gosodiadau.

🖤 Mae Jack Moyse: A Sorry State yn archwilio anabledd, lles a systemau cymdeithasol drwy ffotograffiaeth, gosodiadau, cerflunwaith a pherfformiad, wedi’u datblygu mewn cydweithrediad â phobl sydd â phrofiad byw.

💬 Ymunwch â ni ar ddydd Iau 30 Gorffennaf (6–8pm) ar gyfer Gwaith: Jack Moyse mewn sgwrs gydag Abby Poulson a Tudor Rhys Etchells—sgwrs anffurfiol am ddim wedi’i hysbrydoli gan yr arddangosfa.

📍 Ffotogallery, Caerdydd
🕛 Mercher–Sadwrn | 12–5pm
🎟️ Mynediad am ddim

Dewch i’w gweld cyn iddynt gau. Dolen yn y bio.

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Curating Otherwise: Darllen y Dirwedd | Reading the Landscape

Rhan o [part of] Curating Otherwise, wedi gomisiynu gan [commissioned by Southbank Centre] a gyflwyno gan [and delivered by] HOUSE OF DREAD

📣 Yn galw holl bobl ifanc yn Orllewin Cymru // Calling all Young People in West Wales

(English below)

Ydych chi’n 16-30 oed? Oes gennych chi ddiddordeb am ddysgu beth mae’n meddwl i guradu eich ffordd trwy’r byd?

Dyma gyfle i ymuno am weithdy creadigol, taith a sgwrs i archwilio Dyffryn Tywi fel tirwedd ac archif. Gan ddechrau yn Oriel Myrddin trwy edrych ar hanes gweledol Sir Gaerfyrddin, ac wedyn taith i Dŵr Paxton i arsylwi’r tir. Gyda chyfle i feddwl ac ystyried sut mae tirweddau yn dod yn rhan o'n cof diwylliannol? A pwy sy'n siapio'r straeon rydyn ni'n adrodd am y lleoedd o'n hamgylch ni, a sut gall pobl ifanc ddechrau curadu perthnasoedd newydd gyda nhw.

Eisiau ymuno?

📆Dydd Sadwrn 15 Awst
⏰11:00-15:00
📍Oriel Myrddin
Am Ddim - yn cynnwys cinio a thrafnidiaeth i Dŵr Paxton

Wedi arwain gan Rheolwr Ymgysylltu Oriel Myrddin, Abby Poulson + cyfranwyr lleol

🔗 Gallwch dysgu mwy a cofrestru trwy’r dolen yn ein bio neu cysylltu a’r tîm drwy engagement@orielmyrddin.com

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Are you aged 16-30 and interested in learning about what it means to curate your way through the world?

Here’s a chance to join in a creative workshop, journey and conversation to explore the Towy Valley as landscape and archive. Beginning in Oriel Myrddin with visual histories of Carmarthenshire, we’ll then travel to Paxton’s Tower to observe the land. With the opportunity to think and consider how landscapes become part of our cultural memory? And who shapes the stories we tell about the places around us, and how might young people begin to curate new relationships with them?

Want to join?
📆 Saturday 15 August
⏰11:00-17:00
📍 Oriel Myrddin
Free – including lunch and transport to Paxton’s Tower

Led by Oriel Myrddin’s Engagement Manager, Abby Poulson + local contributors

🔗 Learn more and register through the link in bio or get in touch with the team on engagement@orielmyrddin.com

@abpoulson
@houseofdread_

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EP Pydru ymlaen ALLAN HEDDIW / OUT TODAY ar @bwgibwgan💿

I barhau. I bydru ymlaen. I ymddiried hyd yn oed mewn pydredd, bod rhywbeth newydd yn cymryd siâp yn dawel.

Ysgrifennais y caneuon yma'n y bylchau rhwng llonyddwch a symudiad, caethiwed a rhyddhau, galar ac adnewyddu. Maent yn dal darnau o Gymru a'r Alban, hwiangerddi, breuddwydion, atgofion, a'r gobaith y bydd trawsnewid yn aml yn dechrau o dan yr wyneb, ymhell cyn y gallwn ei weld.

Diolch yn fawr iawn i bawb a helpodd i wneud yr EP hwn yn bosib, ac yn enwedig i Susannah Stark @earlywater88 am ei llais a'i harmoniwm ar Crodh Chailein.

Diolch arbennig hefyd i:
@abpoulson ar y clarinét 🪈
@louisoharamusic ar y gitâr ac am gynhyrchu a chymysgu🎛
@iwanmorgan_ am feistroli🎚
@cwrwstudios am y feibz a'r offer gwych 🎧✨️
@penglogco am y gwaith celf hyfryd 🎨🧡

Dwi'n gobeithio y bydd y caneuon yn cwrdd â chi lle bynnag 'da chi. 🌿

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To carry on. To rot forwards. To trust that even in decay, something new is quietly taking shape.

These songs were written in the spaces between stillness and movement, confinement and release, grief and renewal. They hold fragments of Wales and Scotland, lullabies, dreams, memory, and the hope that transformation often begins beneath the surface, long before we can see it.

A huge thank you to everyone who helped make this EP possible, and especially to Susannah Stark @earlywater88 for lending her voice and harmonium to Crodh Chailein.

A special thanks also to:
@abpoulson on clarinet 🪈
@louisoharamusic on guitar & also for producing & mixing🎛
@iwanmorgan_ for mastering🎚
@cwrwstudios for the vibes and fantastic production tools 🎧✨️
@penglogco for the wonderful artwork 🎨🧡

I hope these songs meet you wherever you are. 🌿

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REVIEW:

A Sorry State
By Jack Moyse

The Project Space, Ffotogallery, Cardiff

Written by Sehna A.

@notabrothel @ffotogallery

-- Are you able to open cans using the pull ring of a standard can opener?

Without the context of the usual forms, the question sounds almost absurd. It is one of several lifted directly from Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Universal Credit (UC) evaluations and satirised in Jack Moyse’s A Sorry State’. ---

Read the rest on our Substack. Link in bio.

📸: Jack Moyse due kg 🪟 🪟 ref and ref and CE, bye @tudir

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I am very very very lax when it comes to announcing dates or when stuff is on soooo plz consider this an invite and an announcement of some of the stuff coming up over the next month or so!! Hope to see u there x

Ty @bobgelsthorpe for writing copy xx
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Thursday 16th July, 12-5pm: On Hold: Durational Performance
Free, No need to book

Jack Moyse re-performs On Hold, an interactive performance, where the bureaucracies and incompetencies of PIP assessments are played out, inviting the public to assess how eligible they think they are or could be for this support.

This piece will be performed throughout office hours at Ffotogallery, with long breaks, and a long lunch, and whatever else the assessment officer at the Department for Workplace and Pensions decides. This piece was originally performed at the opening afternoon of A Sorry State
📷: @tudir

Saturday 18th July, 12-1pm: @penarthlensfriends meet up.

I’ll be chattin about the work, doing a bit of a Q&A an walking through the exhibition :)

Free to book@through the link in their bio.

Thursday 30th July, 6-8pm: Gwaith: Jack Moyse in conversation with Abby Poulson & Tudor Rhys Etchells
Free, No need to book

Gwaith is a social and critical art platform based in Cardiff for early career artists, graduates and students in South Wales.

Moving among different host venues, Gwaith is about creating an open forum for conversation around contemporary art. It is a place to discuss the work and ideas of people who attend, as well as the work on show at the host venue. Come along to meet new people in a friendly informal environment. Free and open to all.

This session is hosted at Ffotogallery, with Jack Moyse in conversation with Abby Poulson and Tudor Rhys Etchells. Discussing the exhibition currently on display in the Project Space, A Sorry State

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Saturday 13th June, @ffotogallery 2-4pm!! Performing 2-3 chit chattin 3-4.

Swing by if you’ve gotta min!! Looking forward to see in what yall think 🥰

Shoutout Osc for making cool reels

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This Saturday, join us for the public preview of A Sorry State, a new exhibition by Swansea-based artist Jack Moyse.

Bringing together photography, installation, sculpture and performance, A Sorry State explores the realities of the welfare system and the narratives that shape public perceptions of disability.

📅 Saturday 13 June 2026
🕑 2–4pm
📍 Ffotogallery Project Space, Cardiff
🎟 Free admission

Spend the afternoon with us as we open A Sorry State and share this powerful new body of work.

Everyone is welcome.

🔗 Link in bio for more information.

#JackMoyse #ASorryState #Ffotogallery #CardiffArts #Photography

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Ymunwch â ni ddydd Sadwrn hwn ar gyfer rhagolwg cyhoeddus A Sorry State, arddangosfa newydd gan yr artist o Abertawe, Jack Moyse.

Gan gyfuno ffotograffiaeth, gosodwaith, cerflunwaith a pherfformiad, mae A Sorry State yn archwilio realiti’r system les a’r naratifau sy’n llywio canfyddiadau’r cyhoedd o anabledd a’r system les.

📅 Dydd Sadwrn 13 Mehefin 2026
🕑 2–4pm
📍 Gofod Prosiect Ffotogallery, Caerdydd
🎟 Mynediad am ddim

Mae croeso cynnes i bawb.

🔗 Dolen yn y bio am ragor o wybodaeth.

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Darllenydd mis Mai ydi dewines y deires @ceryshafana gyda Enter Ghost gan Isabella Hammad. Fy newis i ydi How To Kill A Language gan @sophiasgaler - darlleniadau digon ysgafn felly at eich wythnos ferwedig o boeth yn yr haul.

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May reader is rockstar Cerys Hafana with her pick Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad. My choice this month is Sophia Galer’s How To Kill A Language - this is a precious book for so many reasons. In the past whenever I’ve been challenged to justify my linguistic reality (as pretentious as it sounds) I attempt to compare my experience of language to a garden. Would the garden be as colorful, fascinating or awe inspiring if it was home to only one species of plant or if it was only one kind of bird visiting the windowsill?

There’s a simplicity to the metaphor and I would sometimes bring it up in classrooms during my term as Bardd Plant Cymru - but I’ve never read a perspective so similar to mine, actually written down on the page of a book before. This is one of my favorite lines from How To Kill A Language:

“In our pursuit of a select few powerful language, in our insistence that a common language can unite us, we forget that multilingualism is - like all biodiversity - a connective tissue in the grand scheme of our existence.”

🦋 @missseyy

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