Tŷ Pawb

Exhibition: Darch - You Have Done This Before
2026-04-18 - 2026-06-27 | Tŷ Pawb, Market Street, Wrexham, LL13 8BB
You Have Done This Before is an interactive installation and two-channel film exploring young people’s connections to nature through coming-of-age rituals.
Developed by DARCH – disabled Welsh artists Umulkhayr Mohamed and Radha Patel – the work draws on Somali, Indian and Welsh cultural lineages to create new rituals that honour the full personhood of children. Developed through workshops with young people in Wrexham, the project invites visitors to reflect on youth, lost wisdom and what it means to inherit a world shaped by climate crisis.
Join us for the joint launch event for DARCH – You Have Done This Before and our other new exhibition, Effaith – Disability Arts Cymru National Touring Exhibition (2025–26),
on Friday 17th April from 5.30pm

Exhibition: Effaith - Disability Arts Cymru National Touring Exhibition (2025–26)
2026-04-18 - 2026-06-27
Effaith is an exhibition showcasing disabled perspectives on one of the most urgent issues of our time: the climate crisis. Following an open call, selected disabled, d/Deaf and neurodivergent artists have responded to themes of nature, landscape and climate justice through the lens of disability.
The exhibition also showcases two commissions created as part of the Effaith project, one in partnership with Amgueddfa Cymru and one in partnership with Corsydd Calon Môn.
The commission with Amgueddfa Cymru is supported through CELF, the national contemporary art gallery of Wales initiative that fosters pathways for communities to engage with Wales’ art collection. This commission created an opportunity for the artist to respond to the Effaith theme and the National Collection at Amgueddfa Cymru. Kathryn Ashill was awarded this commission and has created work exploring the disabled body and its relationship to natural bodies of water.
Corsydd Calon Môn’s commission highlights the uniqueness and vulnerability of the Anglesey fens. Funded through the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Corsydd Calon Môn is a collaborative project that seeks to secure the future of the Anglesey Fens whilst celebrating their rich culture and heritage. The project raises awareness of the importance of the fens for people, for nature, and for fighting climate change. Catherine Taylor Parry was awarded the commission and has created work responding to the richness of the environment and reflecting on the fen as a natural record of time.
From February 2026 to March 2027, Effaith will tour across Wales to five leading galleries: Galeri, Caernarfon; Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham; g39 Cardiff; The Riverfront, Newport; and Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth. The exhibition opens at Galeri, Caernarfon with a launch event on Friday 6 February.
Selected artists:
Adele Vye, Alison Robertson, Bev Bell Hughes, Beverly Marmont-Hill, Catherine Taylor Parry, Catrin Gwilym, Cerian Lloyd, Cheryl Beer, Dea Neile-Hopton, Durre Shahwar, Eileen Harrisson, Emma Frayne-Ford, Grant Lambie, Jane Campbell, Jamie Lawrence, Jill Powell, Kathryn Ashill, Linda and Bethany Sutton, Mars da Silva Saude, Polly Hill, Rhowan Alleyne on behalf of Ceredigion Animation Club, Rohan Powell, Sally Pearce, Tracey McMaster
With thanks to DAC Artist Booker T Photography, who creates inclusive artwork by making 3D tactile photo relief prints from 2D images. Booker has made 3D tactile relief prints for each piece of artwork in DAC’s National Touring Exhibition, Effaith, making the work accessible through touch.
With thanks to exhibition selectors:
Dr. Kate Brehme, BerlinKlusion, Germany
Bethany Handley, Writer / Poet / Disability Activist, Wales
Arty Jen Jo, Artist, Wales
Join us for the joint launch of Effaith and our other new exhibition, DARCH – You Have Done This Before, on Friday 17th April from 5.30pm

Exhibition: Anthony Shapland - murmur
2026-07-11 - 2026-10-31
A new solo show by Cardiff based artist and writer Anthony Shapland, guest-curated by Marie-Anne McQuay. The exhibition includes a new film and will be accompanied by an integrated reading space and events programme reflecting Shapland’s interest in the intersection between art and writing.
Tŷ Pawb is delighted to announce a large-scale solo exhibition by Cardiff based artist and writer Anthony Shapland, opening Summer 2026. Anthony Shapland is a Welsh artist, founder of artist-led space g39 and novelist. Within his writing and artistic practice, he blends documentary and fiction, drawing on his lived experience of rural queerness and growing up performing straight.
Exhibition runs: 11 July – 31 October 2026
Preview and Press View: 10 July 2026
Shapland was recently selected as one of The Observer’s 10 best new novelists 2025 and Waterstone’s Welsh book of the year for his debut novel A Room Above a Shop (Granta), which tells the story of hidden intimacy between two men living in a South Wales valley in the late 1980s, during the time of Section 28. Continuing to work between the gallery and the printed page, whether in image, text or film, Shapland constructs intimate portraits of lives lived at the edges of rural landscapes, often filmed on location around Bargoed, the town in the Rhymney Valley where he grew up. His ongoing fascination with illusion and mimicry, reflecting the ways in which his protagonists seek to blend in with their surroundings, manifests in his use of the hidden techniques of traditional filmmaking, including props, backdrops, filters, artificial light and Foley sound effects. These cinematic devices in turn set up and then unpack coded narratives. Speaking also to other concealed lives, the artist asks, “What happens when you stay?”
Shapland’s exhibition at Tŷ Pawb will include a new film and builds on recent moving image work, including Starling Seven (2025), in which a montage of starlings copy and repeat man-made noises, and Between the Dog and the Wolf (2019) which encapsulates the artist’s interest in the cinematic illusion of shooting day for night. The exhibition will be accompanied by an integrated reading space and a dynamic public programme.
Shapland’s solo show will be guest-curated by long time peer and associate Marie-Anne McQuay, previously curator of Liverpool Biennial 2025, with Tŷ Pawb Creative Director Jo Marsh.
Anthony Shapland said: “I’m excited to be working at Tŷ Pawb – exploring the space between exhibition and publication, image and word and referring to a life lived in two parts, performed – never what it seemed on the surface. Nothing is what it appears to be, and an early desire to not stand-out, even after coming-out, has had a lasting impact on all of my work – filled with references to stage and backstage, to a performance of life. At Tŷ Pawb I’m keen to blur the line between inside and outside the gallery. “
Creative Director Tŷ Pawb Jo Marsh said: “We are absolutely delighted to be presenting this exciting new body of work by Anthony Shapland here at Tŷ Pawb next year. Anthony is a truly cherished Welsh artist, at a significant moment in his career. This solo exhibition offers us a fantastic opportunity to engage with Anthony’s beautiful, poetic and unique vision and celebrate his significant contribution to contemporary art in Wales. We can’t wait to share it with our visitors. Building on our initial partnership as part of the Venice Biennale 2019, working with independent curator Marie-Anne McQuay on this project, fresh from her role as curator of Liverpool Biennial 2025, is a dream.”
Guest Curator, Marie-Anne McQuay said: “I’ve followed Anthony Shapland’s practice for nearly 20 years and am so delighted to finally work with him on a solo show for Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham. I’m looking forward to sharing his incredible sensibility for observation and detail, which manifests both in his filmmaking and writing, with audiences next year”
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Exhibition: The Tŷ Pawb Open
2026-11-14 - 2027-03-27
Our biennial open call exhibition returns for its 4th edition. The 2024 edition featured over 100 artworks, following a record response to our open call, with nearly 450 artists submitting works.
Details on how to submit artworks will be announced in the next few months.
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