Sadia Pineda Hameed
Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre and Big Pit National Coal Museum
Photo by Robin Chaddah-Duke
BIO
Sadia Pineda Hameed is a Filipina-Pakistani artist and writer based in Wales’s Ebbw Valley, focusing on collective and intergenerational trauma through anticolonial strategies of dreaming, telepathic communion and secrets. Using film, installation, text, and performance, and research into capitalist and colonial tools such as epistemicide and ecocide, her work imagines what future tools for resistance, value and communication springing from these strategies might look like. Her practice incorporates mythmaking and melodrama as playful devices, immersing viewers in a ‘delirious’ discourse where personal archives and collective experiences intersect, encouraging deeper reflection on shared histories and identities.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Working with Llantarnam Grange and Big Pit National Coal Mining Museum, Sadia has developed a new body of work to explore how radical movements of the past exist in international solidarity with movements today. Through considering the collection, conversations and community of the museum with an anti-colonial, anti-capitalist and ecological lens, Sadia forms connections between Wales’ history of mining and strike, and resource extraction and labour movements worldwide today.”
QUOTE
“My work for Perspective(s) explores strategies of resistance from the Welsh mining strikes - which fought for workers’ rights, the protection of land, culture and community - and how these can become symbols of international solidarity for mining strikes today.”
SOCIAL MEDIA / WEBSITE
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/sadiaph/
Website:https://sadiaph.com/
SIGNALS
Signals was on display at Big Pit National Coal Museum from 31 May – 31 August 2025. The project explored how radical movements of the past exist in international solidarity with movements today. Working with Llantarnam Grange, and through considering the collection, conversations and community of Big Pit, with an anti-colonial, anti-capitalist and ecological lens, Sadia Pineda Hameed formed connections between Wales’ history of mining and strike, and resource extraction and labour movements worldwide today.
Long Distance Calls, 2025 - Pewter sculpture and installation
Long Distance Calls is a series of sculptural string telephones in the style of commemorative silverware, with each pair joining the shared resistance of mining strikes in Wales and in the Global South. Inspired by Big Pit’s bell system - used by miners to communicate underground in code by touching two metal wires together.
Moving Sound, 2025 - a 16mm and archival 8mm film (8 min) and installation screened 3-4pm daily
Moving Sound is a speculative work set across 1980s and near-future Wales, shot on super 16mm. In the film, sounds of present day anti-colonial and anti-capitalist solidarities and strategies for mining strikes are transmitted from Soundcamp streamboxes to the past via an underground, time travelling broadcast.
