Lal Davies

GS Artists and National Waterfront Museum

BIO

Lal Davies is an award-winning filmmaker with South Indian and Southern Irish heritages. Three generations of her Indian family have been born in North Wales since migrating to the UK in 1919. Lal has an established practice of first-person narrative and short documentary filmmaking in social justice, particularly racial equity, education and heritage contexts and a multi-disciplinary art practice using film, photography and poetry. Lal has shown work nationally and internationally and is an Ethnic Minority Welsh Women Achievement Association (EMWWAA) awardee for her contribution to Arts & Culture in Wales.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Lal is exploring Wales' industrial history at National Waterfront Museum Swansea, focusing on decolonising its connections to empire, and reflecting on her own family heritage and migration story from India to Wales as part of this wider context.

Among other stories, Lal is looking at how Welsh copper ingots exported to India to produce brass objects, generated such wealth for Swansea, earning its nickname Copperopolis. Like many Indian diaspora, Lal’s family brought brass objects from India to Wales.

QUOTE

“My work focuses on historical objects as a portal to unlocking both personal and societal narratives and my background demonstrates how Welsh identity can be complex and nuanced. Perspective(s) is a platform to add my voice to Wales’ ambition to become an anti-racist nation by 2030, through film and visual arts work.”

SOCIAL MEDIA / WEBSITE

Showcase reel:https://vimeo.com/showcase/9808956

Website:https://laldaviesma.wordpress.com/

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/laldffilmiau/

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/lal.davies & www.facebook.com/ffilmiaucymunedoldavies/

Vimeo:Lal Davies/Ffilmiau Cymunedol Davies

Twitter:@davies_lal