Creative Health in Herefordshire Arts Practitioner Network Sharing Series

Creative Health in Herefordshire Arts Practitioner Network Sharing Series is an informal sharing and networking event for artists and creative practitioners living and working in Herefordshire, with an interest in creative health and wellbeing practice.

Join us for our third event of the series, as we've invited artist Cordelia Cembrowicz to share her practice. As with previous sessions, this will not be a formal ‘presentation’ but through Cordelia’s work we’ll explore the question of ‘what role can artists play in building healthy communities?’

With a practice which spans drawing, printmaking, photography and sculpture, Cordelia has created three public artworks for the rural Golden Valley in South West Herefordshire, as part of Meadow Arts’ Our Place Golden Valley project.

Alongside her art practice, Cordelia is an activist and campaigner, invested in improving social and health-based outcomes for her local community in West London. Social connection and kinship drive both her artistic and political activity, which in themselves are intertwined.Find out more about Cordelia ahead of the event by reading her Five Minutes With interview with Clare Purcell, Executive Director for Meadow Arts.

About the speaker:

Cordelia Cembrowicz is a multidisciplinary artist based in London, exploring themes of political expression, social structures, and the complexities of human experience through sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. She graduated with an MA in Fine Art Printmaking from the Royal College of Art in 2010 and BA in Fine Art from University College Falmouth in 2006.

Her work has been featured in exhibitions such as “How to Meet” with Menna Comminetti at the Freelands Foundation (2018), the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2019) and Survivor Signs at Goldfinger Factory (2015). Cembrowicz received national press for carving miniature sculptures of toothfairies out of human teeth (2006). She has developed a growing interest in representations of community within her artwork, from actively participating in community projects, such as with the feminist protest group Climate Rush to illustrating atomic structures of hormones and creating etchings of crowds, highlighting the strength of collective human experience. A recent commission working with the local community of North Kensington titled ‘Molecule Murals’ will open at a health centre in central London in 2025.

Cordelia’s inventive approach engages with contemporary discourse, encouraging viewers to reflect on pressing societal issues.

This event is part of Our Place Golden Valley, which is a Meadow Arts project. It is part of the Our Place Herefordshire programme funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, with match funding from Herefordshire Council and Hereford City Council.