Meet the Artists

Meinir’s work as a community artist spans several decades and includes working with people of all ages and backgrounds. Alongside her own full-time practice as a painter, focused on historical narratives, land, and place, she has delivered a wide range of community-based arts projects using multimedia formats.

With a BA and MA in Fine Art followed by teacher’s training, she worked as a secondary school art teacher before spending six years as a full-time lecturer at Carmarthen School of Art. Over the years, she has collaborated with various theatre companies, including Arad Goch, on community-led projects that combine performance and visual arts.

In 2023, she was awarded major Arts Council of Wales funding for Llais y Lle / Voice of the Place, a collaborative, community-driven project in a rural Ceredigion village. Working alongside a filmmaker and movement artist, they engaged residents across generations and language backgrounds in exploring cultural identity, history, and their connection to the land. Through workshops in visual art, music, film, photography and movement, participants developed work rooted in their own research. She has also worked extensively on the Creative Schools Scheme (Arts Council Wales), leading projects in six schools across Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire.  Other community arts experience includes curating exhibitions, designing public murals and mosaics, working with children, vulnerable and disabled adults in workshop settings, and set painting for productions including those at the National Eisteddfod.

Her practice is rooted in collaboration, inclusivity, and creating meaningful engagement through the arts. Meinir brings experience, flexibility, and a passion for helping communities express their stories creatively.

Further information on Meinir can be found here.

Since 2020, Hattie’s writing has been recognised by major British and Welsh institutions. She represented Wales as a Writer with Literature Wales (2020), was named Young Welsh Writer of the Year by New Welsh Review (2021), was supported by Faber as a New Writing North recipient (2023), and was Writer at Work at the Hay Festival (2025).

She considers herself as an artist who writes, using words as her medium to explore the idea of place and personal or cultural history. Since graduating Oxford University with a First Class Honours. in Fine Art through a scholarship for students from low socio-economic backgrounds (Ceredigion, New Castle Emlyn Secondary School), her art writing career spans published texts in print, platforming rural culture — including a Mostyn Gallery Llandudno review in The Guardian (2022), and articles in Arc (2021), Sticky Fingers Press (2020), and Tooth Grinder (2019) – as well as two long-form novels set in rural Welsh towns (these are currently in assessment with CAA agency for publication).

Whether on the page or in a workshop context, her writing is motivated by a fascination in the story-telling traditions of rural communities, and of the undocumented stories in these places often pushed to the margins. Whatever the project, Hattie’s writing is consistently shaped by the context in which she was raised and live: bilingual rural Wales.

Further information on Hattie can be found here.