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We are delighted to announce that the recipient of the 2025 M.A.D.E. Solo Art Prize is Vivian Ross-Smith.
Vivian will use this time and support to develop site-specific and performance-led work exploring dry-stone walls in South Wales - also known as a 'dyke' in her native Scots. Using practices of queering ecology and subverting previously harmful slang, this new body of work will frame dykes as sites of regeneration, community, ecological resilience, and care.
Through a sensual, tactile engagement with care, place and community, Vivian Ross-Smith creates performance, installation, textiles, and painting. Her touchable, often wearable work, explores notions of comfort, pleasure, and disgust in the body. Vivian draws on queering practices, using this as a methodology to remain curious, reclaim harmful pasts and imagine gentle futures.
'I would describe myself as a ‘building historian and illustrator’. I create colourful illustrations of historic buildings and gardens in Cardiff and elsewhere in Wales... It’s important to me to share the story behind the building because I’m also a building/architectural historian...
I illustrate a lot of buildings at St Fagans National Museum of History, where I work as a museum assistant. As someone who is generally interested in historic buildings, I’m always out and about on trips to visit buildings across Wales. When I visit a new building or garden, I love I always immediately want to illustrate it, because I guess that’s my way of making a lasting connection with it, but also sharing it with other people. '
'One part of my process which I always enjoy is setting up the illustration, deciding which angle to show. I’ve been illustrating a lot of gardens recently, and I’ve enjoyed setting up birds-eye views.'
All of Bethan's cards & prints are available in-store & online, including new illustrations of Margam Castle, the Vulcan Hotel & Insole Court. Click on the button above to browse Bethan's work in our online shop.
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