Aequus, 2024, Video Installation 14 minutes.

 

In Aequus, aerial scenes of dancers performing in an emptied lido pool at Craig y Don, Llandudno, are echoed by footage of performers in the Irish Sea. Drawing on future plans for a nineteen-mile tidal lagoon in north Wales, the work considers the history of lido pools in Wales, sites of communal joy and play whose histories are interwoven with extractive energy production – many were built by the miners’ welfare fund.

 

With a soundtrack composed of ocean waves transcribed and combined with field recordings and vocals, the film’s intricate choreographies narrate the complex entanglements at play in the drive toward greener energy solutions.

 

Aequus arose from the artist’s long-term interrogation of dichotomies between natural forces and manmade structures, and a desire to imagine new ways of synchronising our movements as we reimagine beyond immediate horizons.

 

The film was captured during the autumn equinox in Llandudno in 2022

The work was created as part of the Future Wales Fellowship.

 

Screenings / Exhibitions / Performance + Public Art:

2023 - Centre for Alternative Centre for Technology

2023 - SYFRDANOL IKT + Mostyn at HAUS, Llandudno curated by Rebecca Hardy-Griffith with Marie Jones, Jen Corr, Manon Awst, Lisa Carter Grist, Gwen Vaughan, Angela Davies, Ella Jones, Catrin Menai, Gethin Wyn Jones and Wendy Leah Dawson. The exhibition was . More information here: SYFRDANOL

2024 - Holdfast, Glynn Vivian Swansea - Curated by Louise Hobson with Future Wales Fellows: Kathryn Ashill, Angela Davies, Kirsti Davies, Dylan Huw, Durre Shahwar, Rhys Slade-Jones, Fern Thomas, Heledd Wyn. More details here: Holdfast

2024 - Pontio, Bangor curated by Manon Awst​ 

2024 - Watery Speculations, London Critical, Greenwich curated by Lucy Sames - performance lecture 

2024 - Greenman Festival producer Lexi Stevens: Greenman Trust new public art commission and performance, more information: Greenman

2025 - Current New media, Sante fe, 2025

2025 - Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery - longlisted artist

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Credits:

Dancers: Angharad Price Jones, Kseniia Fedorovykh, Lisa Spaull, Kate Lawrence, Louis George, Melissa Pasut

Sound produced and edited by Angela Davies

Filmed by Angela Davies, Joe Edwards, Ant Dickinson

Film Edited by Angela Davies, Mark Eaglen, Finn Black

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With special thanks to Arts Council of Wales and Natural Resources Wales, Centre for Alternative Technology, Glynn Vivian, Mostyn & IKT, Pontio, Greenman Trust

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Future Wales Fellows cohort of 2022, The school of Ocean Sciences at Bangor University, Sophie Ward, Nigel Prince, Anthony Shapland, Tracy Simpson, Lexi Stevens, Louise Hobson

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