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Oriel Un / Gallery One Ewan Coombs | Heidi Lucca-Redcliffe
PULP
14/11/2025 – 20/12/2025
Elysium Gallery is proud to present the first exhibition by recipients of the annual Elysium Graduate Award presented to outstanding 3-D artists from Swansea College of Art.
The Graduate Award is an initiative to support emerging graduate artists to further their practice with a year long residency in the elysium studios, professional development opportunities and an exhibition.
The award focuses on outstanding artists in the first year after graduation when the loss of the University support structure and financial pressure can severely impact an artists practice.
The award focuses on artists who show a unique and engaging approach to sculpture, who experiment with materials and dedicated to the art life!
Ewan Coombs (b.2001) is a multidisciplinary artist based in South Wales. His practice engages with sites of degradation and the shifting conditions of place, foregrounding materiality as a means of dialogue between humanity and nature. Through intuitive and iterative processes, his work embraces ambiguity and the ephemeral, cultivating a non-hierarchical perspective where humans are understood as part of a biocoenoses rather than as a parasitic presence.
Exploring material transformation and multi-perspectival approaches, Coombs creates sculptural works that are both spatially responsive and interactive, inviting occupation and use. His practice seeks to reframe our understanding of site-specific art in relation to environmental conversations, challenging dominant narratives of extraction and control. By foregrounding the dynamics between material, site, and body, his work reflects on how humans might move toward more reciprocal, coexistent relationships with the natural world than parasitic.
Ewan Coombs graduated from Swansea College of Art, BA Hons Fine Art: Studio, Site and Context. Recipient of the Elysium graduate Award 2024 and the Josef Herman Art Award in Memory of Carolyn Davies 2024.
Heidi Lucca-Redcliffe (b.2003) is a multidisciplinary Artist based in South Wales.
Lucca-Redcliffe’s practice is rooted in autoethnographic exploration, using colour, material, and body as primary tools of investigation. Working intensively with the colour red, she creates immersive works that embody rawness, vulnerability, and intimacy. Her process often involves the deconstruction of materials to reveal fragility, embedding themes of exposure and sensitivity into her work. By following intuitive, sensory-driven approaches, she embraces spontaneity and play as part of her creative methodology. Much of her practice questions the notion of self-portraiture, engaging in an ongoing iterative cycle that merges physical presence with material experimentation. Lucca-Redcliffe’s work foregrounds the body as both subject and medium, using materiality to trace the internal self and expand the language of personal representation.
Heidi Lucca-Redcliffe graduated from Swansea College of Art, BA Hons Fine Art: Studio, Site and Context and was the recipient of the Elysium Graduate Award 2024.
Rhagolwg / Preview:
Dydd Gwener 1af Tachwedd, 7yp – hwyr / Friday 14th November, 7pm – late
Oriel ar agor dydd Mercher - dydd Sadwrn, 11yb - 6yp / Gallery open Wednesday - Saturday 11am - 6pm
Online artist talk: Tuesday 9th December 7pm
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