Exhibition by early-career artists Luke Cotter and Hollie Wilkins, who worked from a shared studio at Elysium as winners of the 2025 Graduate Award Residency.
Luke Cotter and Hollie Wilkins open their joint exhibition Tailing Amok at Elysium Gallery on Friday 13 November, with a preview that evening from 7pm. The show runs until 23 December, so you've got a good window to catch it if you can't make the opening.
The two artists have spent the last year working from a shared studio at Elysium, having won the 2025 Graduate Award Residency in collaboration with Swansea College of Art's Fine Art: Studio Site and Context. They both work with waste materials, scale and humour, and the 'thing-ness' of making, though they arrive at it from different angles.
Cotter salvages discarded wood from Swansea's streets to make sculpture that questions what we need and desire. In Dyn, he continues the Welsh storytelling tradition with tools made by a failed gold-prospector. Wilkins builds sculptures of uncanny detail from discarded industrial materials — plastic sheeting, pipe and rope — informed by the writings of Haraway, Murdoch and Wittgenstein. Her intuitive, material-led practice explores ecology, knowledge, power and the shifting boundaries between the social and natural worlds.
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Elysium, Wales's largest provider of artist studios, has championed early-career artists since it opened in 2007. The gallery is at 12-24 Belle Vue Way, SA1 5BY, and is open Wednesday to Saturday, 11am to 5pm. The preview is on Friday 13 November from 7pm, and the show runs through to 23 December.
