Sadia Pineda Hameed is a Filipina Pakistani artist and writer based in the Ebbw Valley, Wales. She works in film, installation, text and performance to explore collective and inherited trauma; in particular, the latent ways we speak about this through dreaming, telepathic communion and secrets as an anti-colonial strategy inherent to us. Her practice is led by semiotic and associative journeying, and a trust in the intuitive process.
She often works with Beau W Beakhouse (beauwbeakhouse.com) as a collaborative duo. Their installations combine sculptural wood and metalwork with text, audio, film and performance to imagine autonomous and alternate futures and to consider the relations between colonialism, labour and speculative fiction. Condensed in their concept of ‘rustic futures’, the duo create hybrid objects using repurposed techniques and processes familiar to both traditional craft and industrial manufacture. Together they are on the g39 Fellowship 2022-24, and run print, radio and curatorial project LUMIN (lumin-press.com).
AWARDS
g39 Freelands Fellowship 2022-4The Arts Foundation Futures Award longlist 2022
Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Artists recipient 2021
Literature Wales New Writers Bursary & Mentoring recipient 2020
Rising Star Wales Award recipient 2020
SOLO EXHIBITION
2023Ornaments of Prospect, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, supported by Jerwood
2022
(misunderstanding), (accommodation), (performance), (loss), Brent Biennial 2022, In the House of my Love, in partnership with Build Hollywood and Studio Voltaire. Produced by Metroland Cultures
2021
it resonates like spalting wood, Arcade/Campfa
2020
The Song of My Life, Bluecoat Liverpool
Local 37, MOSTYN
2019
Tiny Bubbles in the Wine, HOAX
GROUP EXHIBITION
2023Can publications be porous?, Stuart Hall Library, Iniva, London
2022
Open Milpa Lab: Living Room. Centrum Kultury ZAMEK, Poznan
Thinking Green, Glynn Vivian, Swansea
I Watched in Amazement, curated by HOAX, The Mosaic Rooms, London
2021
The Mobile Feminist Library: In Words, In Action, In Connection, MOSTYN, Llandudno
Jerwood UNITe open studios, g39, Cardiff
2020
(un)seen (un)heard, National Museum Cardiff
2019
Made in Roath Open, g39
A New Mecca, Gentle/Radical, Cardiff
2018
Analogue, Three Doors Up (Arcade/Campfa)
RESIDENCIES
2022Centrum Kultury ZAMEK residency, Poznan
Casgleb, Peak Cymru, Abergavenny
2021
Unidee, Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella
Tangent Projects, Barcelona
Jerwood UNITe, g39, Cardiff
Catalyst Arts Spring online residency, Belfast
2020
Hinterlands, Peak Cymru
Hunan-Iaith poetry and translation residency, Where I’m Coming From and Y Stamp, supported by Literature Wales
2019
WARP Library residency, g39, Cardiff
Ty Newydd Emerging Writers residency, funded by Literature Wales and Wales Arts Review
Curatorial residency, SHIFT, Cardiff
2017
LUMIN Library residency, Three Doors Up (Arcade/Campfa), Cardiff
PERFORMANCE
2022‘Link Rot’, Jerwood Staging Series, Jerwood Space, London (restaging TBA)
2021
‘Borrow Tomorrow’, The Mosaic Rooms, London
‘PAMPHLET BOMB’, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
‘speculation’, Jerwood UNITe open studios, g39, Cardiff
2020
‘return etc’, Digithon Festival, arts headliner, Wales Arts Review, online
2019
featured poet, Where I’m Coming From, g39, Cardiff
‘Bearing Witness to Truth’, National Museum Cardiff and Artes Mundi, Cardiff
2018
‘The Crypt’, Gentle/Radical’s A New Mecca, The Temple of Peace, Cardiff
‘Decolonising Heritage’ with Gentle/Radical, Bay Arts, Cardiff, commissioned by the Eisteddfod & the National Trust
featured poet, Porridge, Theatre Deli, London
featured poet, Women & War: An Un-silencing, commissioned by Gentle/Radical, The Open University and Festival of Voice
PUBLICATION
2023Poetry Wales 59.1 Summer 2023
2022
HON: Women Artists in Wales, H’mm Arts Foundation Press
UTYPIA, Oriel Davies Gallery
2021
Merched yn Gwneud Celf zine, Eisteddfod
Poetry Wales 57.1 Summer 2021
DOUBLE, Takeaway #9
Imagining Internationally Connected Practice (consulting artist), Arts Council Wales
2020
Undefining the Artist, Wales Arts Review
Dismantling Structural Inequality in Your Cinema, BFI
LOVE Magazine, Love Diaries vol. 1
‘After ‘Evening’, Kurt Schwitters’, ZARF #14
2019
‘Tortang Tolang’, Porridge Magazine: Comfort Foods
‘Site Ruin’, Amberflora Issue 6
2018‘
Save Our Sculpture, Wales Arts Review
‘For you, after a film’, Porridge Magazine Issue 1
'To (Un)speak Madness re: Derrida, Foucault, Artaud', LUMIN Journal 1
TALKS
2023visiting artist, Arts Council Wales’ Cynefin
visiting artist, Oriel Myrddin emerging artists programme
2022
visiting artist, Cardiff Metropolitan - Fine Arts BA
visiting artist, Oxford University - Fine Arts MA
2021
HerStories // Shelf Life, Iniva
‘Dismantling Structural Inequality In Your Cinema’, Glasgow Film Festival (2021), This Way Up Festival (2020)
2020
Women in Publishing Symposium panelist, Bangor University
2019
guest critic, BBC Radio Wales’ Arts Review Show
‘Dis/establishing the archive’, Archiving Gender symposium paper presentation, Cardiff University
2018
Gentle/Radical’s Imagination Forum #4, symposium at Sustainable Studios, Cardiff
A NEW MECCA
2018. film, performance, installation
group show/event. with Beau W Beakhouse. commissioned by Gentle/Radical; funded by Arts Council of Wales.
A New Mecca, Temple of Peace, Cardiff
Golden Key (film) in response to the inevitable decomposition of archives, contemporary rewriting, loss and renewal; and the effects of a monument on a people.
Contemplating Inner Spaces (performance, accompanying sound experimentation and installation) responding to the crypt beneath the Temple of Peace; deconstructing crypts and archival material (E. R. Eaton), on resonating internal space with external change.
A New Mecca, Temple of Peace, Cardiff
Golden Key (film) in response to the inevitable decomposition of archives, contemporary rewriting, loss and renewal; and the effects of a monument on a people.
Contemplating Inner Spaces (performance, accompanying sound experimentation and installation) responding to the crypt beneath the Temple of Peace; deconstructing crypts and archival material (E. R. Eaton), on resonating internal space with external change.
