Tuesday 2 December 2025 - Sunday 7 December 2025
10:30 am - 4:30 pm
In conjunction with the exhibition Linder: Danger Came Smiling, Swansea-based artists Vivian Ross-Smith and Holly Slingsby are co-curating video works in the gallery comprising works from invited artists and an open call.
Video Artists: Adele Vye, Aled Simons, Alex Hetherington, Bhebhe & Davies, Jenny Baines, Jessa Mockridge, Rebecca Moss, Sophie Lindsey, Quilla Constance and Zia Torta.
The programme expands and brings alive themes from Linder: Danger Came Smiling including consumption, domesticity, gender performativity, mass media, bodies, archetypal figures, and pleasure.
Video Showreel
Adele Vye
At the doorway (Time) and At the doorway (Tide), 2020
In At the doorway (Tide) and At the doorway (Time), Vye repurposes the washing machine to poetically explore the conflict between domestic and environmental responsibility. The everyday act of laundry is disrupted and turned ritual, as torches signal for help, water rises, and we witness the engulfment, disappearance, transportation and transformation of the artist from inside the confines of the machine.
Aled Simons
Legend Extension II, 2023
What if our memories and collective knowledge were recorded, rewound, then re-recorded on to mouldy VHS tape? Legend Extension II offers space to consider contagious non-conscious mimicry, slanted personal history, misinterpretation and to excavate anecdotal facts – skewed as they are repeated time and time again. With crude 3D animation and archival footage featuring the artist’s aunty, at times we find ourselves inside the dark recesses of a video tape cassette, as if exploring the corners of a pixelated 64-bit computer game.
Alex Hetherington
Sister Films, 2022
Sister Films, a 16mm recording of a rehearsal for a live performance, takes as its starting point the complex Greek mythological figure of Tiresias, a blind prophet of Apollo who is transformed into a woman by the goddess Hera: the notion of Tiresias, queerness, trans-ness and premonition, blindness and sight, these complex liminal states is something mirrored in 16mm and its properties, materiality, technologies and multiple temporalities.
Bhebhe&Davies
A Navigation, 2017
A Navigation investigates personal journeys and perceptions of age, sexual identity, anxiety and desire, exploring the role and place of intimacy in all its manifestations; non physical, social, intellectual and emotional. To develop this work, Bhebhe&Davies collaborated with female performers over 50, to explore how women’s bodies negotiate histories, disrupt power structures and build solidarity. The film reflects on ageist assumptions through movement, considering how individuals occupy space, assert presence and shift perceptions. With vocal artist Randolph Matthews and sound designer Joseph Bond, the soundtrack draws on primal human sounds as expressions of the emotional self, reinforcing the work’s focus on embodied experience and the evolving relationship between identity and power.
Jenny Baines
Inflated (double) struggle, 2018
Inflated (double) struggle shows the artist wrestling with a person of similar strength in an attempt to burst an oversized balloon held between their bodies. As the balloon stretches and morphs under the pressure between them, the repeated movements appear sometimes violent and at other times tender.
Jessa Mockridge
Spivak_rub, 2024, 15 minutes
A library worker on night shift is rubbing out the pencil markings in a heavily fingered and annotated book by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. She re-traces the circles and crosses and annotations and brackets, re-performing the gestures that made these marks. Librarians erase pencil in order to digitise important chapters for anyone who can’t access the library physically or who relies on screen readers. The film documents a fantasy through the choreography of her hands.
Quilla Constance
Happy Christmas Mom & Dad, 2006
“Predictably, the mother is outraged at the inappropriate display of her daughter’s sexuality while the father becomes problematically seduced by the spectacle of his daughter’s refusal of the incest taboo – the Oedipal. Quilla Constance aka Jennifer Allen’s unabashed exploration of her own erotic potential, which might take place in the girl’s bedroom, is now taken into the living room as a shocking gift for her parents. The dutiful daughter, in a celebratory display of her sexuality, refuses the role of the hysteric prescribed to women through familial prohibition, in a performance which is liberational” – Dr Mo Throp (Writer/Artist)
Rebecca Moss
Home Improvement, 2021
Home Improvement is a work made during the covid lockdown, a home-made smile machine devised out of improvised everyday objects. Rebecca Moss is an artist based in Essex. Her work explores notions of absurdity and precarity, and takes a variety of forms across sculpture, video, performance, installation, and participatory practice. Through humorous ideas, her work explores existential themes. A sense of movement recurs across the work, that things are in a state of change and flux. She is especially inspired by slapstick performance: for its emotional expression of feelings of instability, its lowbrow humorous associations, its sense of reciprocity between body and surroundings, and for its potential to challenge power.
Sophie Lindsey
Al Plein Fresco Air, 2019
Al Plein Fresco Air is a performance to camera that forms part of the artistic research project Jam-scape. By adopting the stance of a landscape painter, Sophie makes and eats a jam sandwich in an attempt to imbue the sandwich with romantic associations of countryside. This investigates how our collective imagination of rural spaces exists within food, food packaging, and supermarkets.
Zia Torta
Why Do You Keep Making the Same Mistakes?, 2025
Why Do You Keep Making the Same Mistakes? poses an open question to our shared human experience. inviting a critical reflection on the habits, thoughts and cycles we fall into, urging mindfulness, presence and compassion toward ourselves and others.
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