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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
 

THE SONG OF MY LIFE


2020. hi8 film (10min)

solo show, accompanying Sean Edwards’ Undo Things Done.

Bluecoat, Liverpool

5 December 2020 - 21 February 2021

Cardiff based artist, writer and independent curator Sadia Pineda Hameed (b. London 1995) was invited to show alongside Undo Things Done by Sean Edwards. Both artists address ideas of inheritance in their work, particularly the stories that are passed down within families, especially from mothers, and the childhood memories and experiences that shape the present.

Pineda Hameed works in film, installation, text and performance to explore collective and inherited trauma. She is interested in the ways that dreaming, telepathic communion and the passing on of secrets might act as forms of resistance and as anti-colonial strategies.

Her most recently exhibited film, tiny bubbles in the wine (2019) is an evocative collaged film that relays the artist's mother's previously untold experiences of migrating from the Philippines to the UK. Pineda Hameed playfully creates intuitive links between a mother’s story, Filipino traditions of oral history and Filipino artist David Medalla’s kinetic sculpture Cloud Canyons.

At Bluecoat Pineda Hameed presented a new film that also focuses on matrilineal storytelling entitled The Song of My Life (2020). The film knowingly parodies a popular karaoke style video with the text appearing as lyrics for a duet. One part will be voiced by the artist while the other voice will be absent. The Song of My Life follows many of the same themes of tiny bubbles. These include the difficulty of telling stories about familial trauma as well as how collectivised experiences and memories pass spoken and unspoken between parent and child; or here between mother and daughter.

Images: Harry Meadley