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 were awarded the g39 Freelands Fellowship 2022-24, and co-founded print, radio and curatorial project LUMIN (lumin-press.com).
AWARDS
Arts Council Wales Perspectives Fellowship 2024Pushcart Prize Nominee 2023
British School at Rome Fellowship 2023
g39 Freelands Fellowship 2022-24
Arts Foundation Futures Award for Visual Artists longlist 2022
Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Artists recipient 2021
Literature Wales New Writers Award recipient 2020
Rising Star Wales Writers Award recipient 2020
SOLO EXHIBITION
2025
Forthcoming, Llantarnam Grange, Cwmbran
2024
Forthcoming, National Museum Wales, South Wales
2023
Ornaments of Prospect, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2022
(misunderstanding), (accommodation), (performance), (loss), Brent Biennial 2022, In the House of my Love, Metroland Cultures, Build Hollywood and Studio Voltaire, London
2021
it resonates like spalting wood, Arcade/Campfa, Cardiff
2020
The Song of My Life, Bluecoat, Liverpool
Local 37, MOSTYN, Llandudno
2019
Tiny Bubbles in the Wine, HOAX, online
GROUP EXHIBITION
2024
HERE, NOW, Bay Arts, Cardiff
Here, at the edge, today, g39, Cardiff
Betwixt: Beneath, the Crypt Gallery, London
SMALL V01CE, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles
2023
Can publications be porous?, Stuart Hall Library, Iniva, London
British School at Rome Open Studios, Rome
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, Cardiff
A New Mecca, Gentle/Radical, Cardiff
2018
Analogue, Three Doors Up, Cardiff
RESIDENCIES
2023
British School at Rome, Rome
2022
Centrum Kultury ZAMEK residency, Poznan
Casgleb, Peak Cymru, Abergavenny
2021
Unidee, Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella
Co-Tangent, Tangent Projects, Barcelona
Jerwood UNITe, g39, Cardiff
Catalyst Arts Spring online residency, Belfast
2020
Hinterlands, Peak Cymru
Hunan-Iaith, Ty Newydd / National Writing Centre for Wales, Criccieth
2019
WARP Library residency, g39, Cardiff
New Writers Award residency, Ty Newydd / National Writing Centre for Wales, Criccieth
Curatorial residency, SHIFT, Cardiff
PERFORMANCE
2022
‘Link Rot’, Jerwood Staging Series, Jerwood Arts
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, The Open University and Festival of Voice, Cardiff
PUBLICATION
2023
Poetry 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
2023
CASTRO Projects, Rome
visiting 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
CARVE, HEW, ADZE, BEND, WEAVE, GROW, SPLIT, JOIN
2022. public art, two poster boxes
with Beau W Beakhouse.
Casgleb, Peak Cymru. Abergavenny Train Station, Wales.
carve, hew, adze, bend, weave, grow, split, join is a work of speculative fiction about an autonomous community in a countryside of the future. Drawing on the interdependence of country and city as well as past revolutions in rural craft, it considers the tools, objects and methods of a woodworkers’ coop after the decline of the metropolis. Alongside this, a quote from postcolonial theorist and poet Édouard Glissant similarly rejects the countryside as solely a place of conservatism, alternate histories suggest that ‘the countryside is also the place where there are revolutions’.
Images: Peak Cymru
