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sadiaph@gmail.com
@sadiaph

b. 1995, London
Lives in the Ebbw Valley

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 2022-4
The 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

2023
Ornaments 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

2023
Can 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

2022
Centrum 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

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
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
 

ROBERT OWEN 250 COMMISSION


2022. public art, text, ASCII art

Robert Owen 250 sculpture text commission, and UTYPIA commissioned text published on the Oriel Davies website. Funded by Welsh Government, Powys County Council, Newtown & Llanllwchaiarn Town Council and the Robert Owen Museum. The partner organisations are the Arts Council of Wales, Oriel Davies Gallery and Race Council Cymru.

Newton, Wales

The project responds to Robert Owen, who was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist and social reformer born in Newtown, Powys 250 years ago. Owen’s ideas about principled manufacturing, youth education and early child care, and the importance of community resonate with us two and a half centuries later. This honouring of Robert Owen’s legacy will however be undertaken with complete reflection of all aspects of his history including those more difficult.

Despite his many forward-thinking ideas, Robert Owen did not oppose the continuation of slavery and the use of goods from American plantations. The industry that he made his money from presents significant social and environmental concerns and many of these issues have contemporary relevance, from slavery, child labour, sweat shops, inequalities and exploitation to land erosion and throwaway fashion; the story of textiles opens lots of questions and debate.

A commemorative sculpture by Howard Bowcott, resembling a roll of unfurling textile, was commissioned; featuring bi-lingual text written by Dylan Huw and Sadia Pineda Hameed providing a contemporary reading of Owen’s ‘legacy’. Conversations were had with members of the community in the green spaces, at the community gardens and in some of the many cooperatives that exist in Newtown.

on colonial labour
utopian exploits
we vision futures
beyond Owen
cooperation
contra capital

Sadia Pineda Hameed was also commissioned to write a new text, UTYPIA. Through writing and new ASCII art of utopian architecture, the piece explores the ‘architecting' of utopia, the ways in which Robert Owen's social reforms have been inherited by modern day technoplexes, and what it means to reproduce these designs.  

Images: Oriel Davies