Your final chance to see Alix Edwards solo exhibition WoMen and Men, meet the artist Alix Edwards, and hear how people have responded to her work.

Hosted by Alix Edwards this event will include an open mic where participants in the workshops Foibe and Saints or Sinners will have the chance to share their finished pieces in a supportive and welcoming environment.

If you have not attended one of the workshops but have a piece about this work that you would like to read please contact the artist.

This event starts at 1.30pm and will last until around 3.30pm
The gallery is open until 1pm-4pm

Voluntary donation to Cwtsh

All Welcome

WoMen and Men….
This solo~ exhibition by Cardiff-based multi-platform artist Alix Edwards explores different aspects of womanhood in the 20th and 21st Centuries and includes works about growing up in Fascist Italy, the Magdalene laundries and the aftermath of domestic violence.

Exhibition times: (1st-29th September)
Thursdays and Saturdays 12pm-3pm
Sundays 1pm-4pm

ALIX EDWARDS is a multi-platform artist. Her work explores themes of marginalisation, domestic violence, motherhood and resilience, and gives a voice primarily to women and children whom society has failed or ignored. She uses photography, painting, installation, text and spoken word to restore life, energy and emotion to statistics, create new narratives and tell stories about women that would otherwise remain untold.
Her work has been exhibited in England and Wales including 198 Gallery, Sutton House, g39, Cardiff Made, Truman Brewery, Angus Hughes, The Gas Club, Oxford House, The Laundry, The Gate, The Russian Club, The Overlay Project and published in Lucent Dreaming, The Loss Project, Blink-Ink, the write time. Her writing has been published in various anthologies including the write time, Roath Writer’s anthology, Diaspora, Beyond Words, write spark, Penny Thoughts and alchemy magazine. A member of Cardiff Writer’s Circle she was runner up for the short story prize 2017 and poetry prize 2019, flash fiction winner 2017 and 2018, and short story winner 2018.
Alix won a scholarship to Oxford University to study English Literature, has an MA in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London and graduated in MA photography from Central Saint Martin’s in 2016. Recent work includes giant canvas Fallen which questions the etymology of the this word in relation to women, War Bride, exhibited here: a very personal series of found photographs and text about being a young woman growing up in Fascist Italy created for 36 Exposures, Bath Fringe Festival and Clean Sheets and a poetry collection about being a ‘fallen woman.’ She founded and hosts Company of Words Open Mic and Guest events in Cardiff, Wales where she lives with her two daughters and runs community art projects for women including for SHOUT! in Cardiff Women’s Centre.

To find out more:
www. alixedwardsartography.com
Instagram: artography_alixedwards
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FB @companyofwords
twitter: artographyalix