Each year, Oriel Colwyn takes the opportunity to support and showcase the final show group exhibitions from students completing Llandrillo College’s FdA and BA(Hons) Photography courses.
This March we introduce you to the work of the 2nd year FdA students. This exhibition will be OFF SITE in the Porth Eirias space:
New Exhibition: 'WATCH THIS SPACE'
OPENING EVENT:
Date: Saturday 14th March
Time: 6pm - 9pm
Location: PORTH EIRIAS
The show runs until the 10th May and evidences the various genres of photography that exist within the group, as well as identifying the importance of working together to coordinate a meaningful photographic exhibition.
This year's show features work from:
Lily Cotton
"I am a photographer drawn to the ways people present themselves in contemporary culture. My work blends fashion, portraiture, and editorial photography, creating images that are visually polished yet grounded in authenticity. While I take inspiration from magazine-style shoots, I deliberately move away from the conventional model archetypes often seen in commercial media, instead highlighting real people and the uniqueness of their personalities.
Through my photography, I explore self-expression, confidence, and individuality, capturing moments that feel both stylish and genuine. I aim to create images that are striking, thoughtful, and memorable, while also accessible and relatable. Each photograph reflects a balance between performance and authenticity, offering a fresh perspective on contemporary portraiture. My work celebrates diversity, creativity, and the power of being oneself in a world often shaped by expectation."
(c) Lily Cotton
Jamie Sheridan
Jamie Sheridan is investigating a whole range of early photographic print processes to include tin-type, cyanotype, salt prints and fibre base fine print. He works with a range of formats that includes 5x4 large format, and a series of medium formats from 6x6 to 6x9. He applies all these analogue technologies to a study of the North Wales Landscape in a very personal project that documents his long standing concern for the environment and his fascination with dislocated spaces.
(c) Jamie Sheridan
Annie Tudor
"I am a dancer and visual artist whose practice is rooted in growing up with dance. Having spent most of my life training and performing, movement has shaped how I understand my body, identity and creative expression. This background informs my approach to photography and moving image, where the camera becomes a way of continuing my relationship with dance rather than stepping away from it."
"This project brings together video, digital photography and film to examine movement through both collaboration and self-representation. Alongside working with other dancers, I place myself within the frame, appearing in the dance video and creating self-portraits on film. Locating my body within the work reflects a personal history."
"The project acts as a visual reflection on growing up with dance, capturing moments of motion, stillness and transition. By blurring the boundaries between dancer and photographer, the work explores how identity, memory and movement are held within an image, and how dance continues to shape my evolving creative practice."
(c) Annie Tudor
Terry Rees
Terry Rees spent the summer of 2025 photographing 100 castles in Wales. The results are far from the tourist brochure type image embedded in the cultural psyche. These images have the feel of the historical monuments survey that beautifully references contemporary aesthetics and the fascination with objective looking as a framing device for actual objects. The number of castles and general obscurity manage to breach the superstructures of Caernarfon, Beaumaris and Harlech and bring us back to the idea of the local and the ancient dynasties and kingships that are largely lost to the overbearing narrative of the Norman conquest.
(c) Terry Rees