"As I traveled through mid Wales during this peculiar time I found myself in conversations about masks quite a lot. Maybe we are coming out of it now, but at one point I felt like it was as commonplace as talking about the weather. My process depends heavily on jotting down what other people say and this group show has given me the opertunity to take those snippets of conversation about the sensation of mask wearing (especially in the service industry) and dice them together with colour and travel on map that charters a mountain where, is it said, if you sleep on its slopes you wake up either mad or a poet."

Gommie is an English poet artist whose work is focused on using the poem as a vehicle for weaving together individual and national notions. His artistic career began after spending time roaming around the British countryside painting on old ordnance survey maps. His unique poems are typically created from acrylic paint, ink, mud, doodles and written text. “I see all my work as simply marking time. Be it with words or colour. That can be a political calamity, any person I meet saying something funny or moving, or me simply being lost (which is often). I try not to think about the broader meanings too much. I just try to be present with every map. If it moves me – it goes on the map.”