GWENBA is a multidisciplinary artist/designer, writer, filmmaker, and mystic based in Cardiff. Their practice explores the intersections of ecology and cyber-folkloric storytelling. Engaging with themes of non-somatic touch, the soil and waters (and all the things that grow inside them); they work with re:translations of science journals, archival research and the unconscious through text, film/moving image, sound, sculpture, and installation—
bioMORPHIC audio-visual artefacts = data x [♡].
GWENBA is the founder of auto:save, a platform for emerging digital and new-media artists. Both their personal and curatorial work have been exhibited across the UK and internationally. Rooting their practice in ecological symbiosis and speculative futures, they construct narratives that challenge and blur the boundaries between human, non-human, and other worlds.ₓ˚. ୭ ˚○◦˚
:EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS:
:2025:
* O’HYD[RA] - SYMUD Moving Image Festival, Oriel Carn Caernarfon, Wales
* Dreams of Vermi-computing & Other Monsters, video + code, ART GENE, Cumbria [Online]
:2023/4:
* O’HYD[RA] - Pontio, Bangor; alongside the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art Symposium
*O’HYD[RA] -CWYR Zine Opening - Bankley Gallery, Manchester
* O’HYD[RA] - Big Screen Southend, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea 2024
*Dreams of Vermi-computing & Other Monsters, video instillation- VESSELS groupshow, CARNEDD, Cardiff 2024
:2022:
*MyCelium Systems - Carbon Borders Voices
*MyCelium Systems - London Short Film Festival
*My:Celium Systems, ᴛᴏ sᴘᴀᴡɴ ᴀ ᴅᴏᴏʀ. ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴀɴᴅ ᴏғ ʙʀᴏᴋᴇɴ ᴍɪʀʀᴏʀs -New Art City [online]
*My:Celium Systems, Mock Jungle [Bologna, Italy].
*auto:save x UNITe 2022 [online]
*BLOOD ORANGE - Failures & Repetitions, Five Years Archway, London
:2021:
*Manuka Glass Collective, International Collaboration
* auto:save Presents RHIZODOME
*MyCelium Systems - g39 Jerwood UNITe Open Studio
*MyCelium Systems - VAEFE Project Space Tilburg, Netherlands
*MyCelium Systems - Projektion/Projection Darmstadt, Germany
*MyCelium Systems - Caraboo Projects, The Island, Bristol
*The Wrong Biennale with Manuka Glass
:2020:
*arcadecampfa, digital exhibit - earth:born
*auto:save presents : Ancient Futures in Organic Cyberspace (Built & Curated)
*Manuka Glass Collective, International Collaboration
:2019:
* Tales of BUNNYGIRL Private Screening // The Garage, Falmouth
* TATE ST IVES Emerging Artists (UStudio) Residency | Collective - with Rob Unett
* HOW 2 B HUMAN: A CYBORG'S GUIDE - Final Year Show, Falmouth University // Woodlane Campus
* BLØØD ORANGE - Whimsy Presents: Silver Bells & Cockle Shells // The Space, Bristol
* Stories of The Atacama : Screening // Coyo, San Pedro de Atacama
:2018:
* FEAR, FANTASY & FRAGMENTS OF TIME , The Poly, Falmouth
* Screening @ Naomi Frears & Rachel Jones' ARTISTS MOVING IMAGE AND EXPERIMENTAL FILM NIGHT // Porthmeor Studios, St Ives
:AWARDS:
*MyCelium Systems - Runner up in Bury Art Museum The Next Thing Moving Image Award, 2021
:PUBLICATIONS:
*ELLIPSES_ZINE VOL01 + Interview/ (2020)
*Feed My Quarantein vol.II digital_zine (2020)
*MAES B -Merched Mewn Miwsig Zine 01 (2020)
*ORANJ x ARTRABBIT - April Submission [Runner Up]
*ORANJ 'Fire Starters' June Edition
*Amgueddfa Cymru Habitat Issue - Cerrig Yfori / Tomorrow Stones
*O’HYD[RA] -CWYR Zine, 2024
*Dreams of Vermi-computing & Other Monsters Zine, 2024
:RESIDENCIES:
*TATE St Ives - Emerging Artist Residency (Jan, 2019)
* LAWAYAKACURRENT - San Pedro de Atacama (2019)
* arcadecampfa - Digital Artist in Residence, (June 2020)
*Five Years Archway (Instagram) Residency
* g39 Jerwood UNITe Residency, (2021)
*HessenLAB B3 Biennial of the Moving Image 2021 - Talent Forum
*Shakes VR x Pigtown Theatre (BeConwy) - VR Digital Artist Intern
*Intern @ g39, Cardiff 2022
*Hotel Generation Cohort 2024, arebyte, London // g39 , Cardiff
* GREEN MAN FESTIVAL artist residency (on-site and online) 2024
*DESG Residency Studio Space, CARNEDD / Umbrella Cardiff 2024
:EDUCATION:
* Falmouth University '19 - 1st Honours Degree in BA Fine Art
*Code First: Girls - Intro to Web Dev '21
* Cardiff University: Intro to Creative Writing // Writing for Stage and Screen Short Courses (2024)