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Researcher and artist Dr Veronica Calarco will be exhibiting 900 of her handmade baskets, made from recycled prints, in an upcoming exhibition at Mid Wales Arts Centre. The exhibition is built to showcase the strength of involvement and awareness of artists who wish to create positive environmental/ecological art in today’s climate.

The exhibition will open on Friday 5th of June and continue till the 7th of August.

This conference will situate the history of Wales within global and colonial contexts.

The conference invited proposals for papers that engage with current issues and debates in historiography and public policy alike. On one hand, the conference aims to expand upon recent scholarship which has cast new light on Wales’s connections to imperialism and transatlantic slavery. On the other, it will encourage discussions about how Welsh national history and identity is understood and taught.

Researcher and artist Dr Veronica Calarco will be discussing Wales as colony/Wales as coloniser, built and natural landscapes, the concept of cynefin, the colonial countryside and language and identity in Panel 8, Tuesday 7th of June, 11:30 - 1:00 pm

Join Veronica Calarco as she discusses her final Phd project, her topics will highlight the politics of endangered and minority languages and how they are consumed and colonized by a dominant language of a more powerful ethnic group. In this case, looking at an endangered Australian Indigenous language named Gunnai/Kŭrnai, the language of her native homeland, and Welsh, the language of her adopted homeland. All the works reflected her exploration of these two languages through names, words, myths, and the natural world.

Veronica will also be sharing her post doc research for Cyd-fyw a’r Tir / We Live With the Land and how the project has developed into its forthcoming exhibitons.

A right to roam can be connected to calls to think, re-imagine and create, as well as to physically move or migrate, to run and cross boundaries. The call is not necessarily coming from “out there”, but also from an inner urge to roam, perhaps in response to lockdown and being constrained in so many ways.

Project participants Veronica Calarco, Rebecca Wyn Kelly and Emma Jayne Holmes, will be speaking in a panel with Dawn Faye & Norma Hendrix at ICAE 2022.

As part of the biannual Impact 12 conference, printmakers were invited to collaborate with environmental scientists and humanities scholars and respond to new deep-time environmental histories in Wales, language, a sense of place, the re-wilding movements and the positioning of Cymru by outsiders (notably tourists) as ‘Other’ with issues including migration, displacement, colonialism and citizenship, and a sense of loss.

Co-curated and co-led by printmakers Dr Veronica Calarco (Lecturer, Printmaking, School of Art, Aberystwyth University), Judy Macklin (creative fellow at Centre for the Inland, La Trobe University and Lincoln Centre of Water and Planetary Heath), Professor Mark Macklin (Distinguished Professor of River Systems and Global Change, University of Lincoln) and Dr Lucy Taylor (Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies, Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University), this curated exhibition will address and make a novel intervention on the conference theme of ‘Merging and Metamorphosis’.

More details on the talk to be published soon.