Whilst having been creative and surrounded by creativity all my life, I didn’t receive formal training until 2011-15. Since graduating I have continued to create and exhibit but have found opportunities limited, partially through: living rurally, being a parent, working in ceramics and covering subjects that are unapologetically raw.
Whilst having been creative and surrounded by creativity all my life, I didn’t receive formal training until 2011-15. Since graduating I have continued to create and exhibit but have found opportunities limited, partially through: living rurally, being a parent, working in ceramics and covering subjects that are unapologetically raw.
My ambition is to change the way the world perceives women and the way they perceive themselves. to encourage female agency and refute objectification.
I am interested in the extremes of the female experience from orgasmic bliss to domestic violence because this is my experience.
I must confess I remain a bit lost, standing on the brink of an art world I do not understand, my toes grip the edge and I cannot see my way.
I like my work to be touchable where possible, the be playful, questions seem more approachable when they are fun and tangible.
I have so many ideas, they sparkle before me, they fill books with scribbled ideas, sketched thoughts, a few get developed but I plan public art, small domestic pieces, gallery work, large pieces, intimate pieces, work commemorating the dead, damning the guilty, work that frees women from the fetters left by eras past, so many remnants hang around us, littering our lives with cramping limitations and I want to question the nature of obscenity, it shifts so. I want to question society for its attitudes.
I don't actually understand what "critical framework for your wider practice." sorry.
Curriculum Vitae
dinahvagina 01267 202786, 07780 970324; The Factory, Nant-y-ffin, Brechfa SA32 7RE www.dinahvagina.com e: [email protected]
Education:
2012/5 Carmarthen School of Art BA (Hons) Ceramics and Jewellery
Exhibitions:
July 2019 Empower Me! @g39, Cardiff (Touch Me)
June 2019 Residency@ ShiftCardiff (Touch MeI in progress)
Mar 2019 on street/Barry. Int'kl Womens Day (Thank Coat)
Mar 2019 WAA Int'l Womens Day Art Central (Soft Cox)
Mar 2019 WAA Int'l Womens Day Llanover Hall (3 Holes)
Oct 2018 Maquette II (2018) MiR Open Exhibition@ g39, Cardiff (fabric/mixed media)
Aug 2018 Residency, MadeinRoath. Cardiff
Mar 2018 Int’l Women’s Day Llanover Hall, Cardiff (shoes. Mixed media)
Mar 2018 Int’l Women’s Day Art Central, Barry (Table (Axes and Hammers and Knives, Oh My!) mixed media)
Feb 2018 ArcadeCardiff. Any Feelings About This? Solo show.
Feb 2018 Talk dinahvagina, life and work at Women’s Art Ass. Llanover Hall, Cardiff
Oct 2017 FiLiArt 2017, London (My Grandmothers Muff, fabric, and Torso, ceramic)
Oct 2017 Period Panic madeinroath, Cardiff
Oct 2017 The Joy of Reading (Bliss #2), ArcadeCardiff – Three Doors Up
Aug 2017 Exhibitionist Vagina Museum @ Edinburgh Fringe (Cunt Cup series II ceramic)
Mar 2017 Int’l Women’s Day Llanover Hall, Cardiff (4 minutes. ceramic)
Mar 2017 Int’l Women’s Day Art Central, Barry (35. ceramic)
Mar 2017 Int’l Women’s Day Cinema & Co. Swansea (4 minutes. paper)
Mar 2017 Clitoris Lucky Dip Women of the World, London
Feb 2017 not another isolated incident 1Billion Rising/V-Day Cardiff
Dec 2016/Jan 2017 Art Central 10th Anniversary (3 pieces – ceramic, damaged women)
Dec 2016 The Joy of Reading (Bliss #2) Waterstones, Carmarthen
Nov/Dec Winter Open Exhibition, Oriel Q, Narbeth. (R & silly cow. ceramic)
Nov/Dec 2016 How I See It WAA. Llanover Hall, Cardiff (50 women. ceramic.)
Nov 2016 not another isolated incident Int’l Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Carmarthen.
Oct 2016 Come Fold with me. Milgi, City Rd. madeinroath Cardiff (workshop/paper & clay)
Oct 2016 The Joy of Reading (Bliss #2) Waterstones, Carmarthen
Sept 2016 50 Women Artists in Buttons for ArtVend for Oriel Wrecsam
May 2016 An isolated incident Waterloo Tea Room, Cardiff. Solo show.
Mar 2016 Ignite! Cardiff (talk) Pubic Service Announcement
Mar 2016 Workshop. Birkenstomp Art Festival, Cardiff
Mar 2016 Dead Paper all woman show, Creative Bubble, Swansea (Caroline ceramic)
Mar 2016 Int’l Women’s Day Exhibition. Llanover Hall, Cardiff (dead women paper & willow)
Mar 2016 Int’l Women’s Day Exhibition. Arts Central, Barry (Caroline, ceramic)
Oct 2015 Clitoris Lucky Dip. madeinroath, Cardiff
June 2015 New Designers – Design Centre, Islington, London (Bliss)
May 2015 Bliss ColegSirGar, Carmarthen.
Mar 2015 International Women’s Day Exhibition. BHAC, Cardiff
Feb 2015 International Women’s Day Exhibition. Arts Central, Barry
Feb 2015 International Women’s Day Exhibition. The Gate, Cardiff
Dec 2014 Additions Women’s Art Association. BHAC, Cardiff
May 2014 Fragile Emotion Innovation Quercus Rooms, Carmarthen