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Walking the line between the convivial, and the confrontational, Rhys makes political work straddling the worlds of cabaret, performance and craft.


I enjoy making objects and costumes to inhabit different characters in front of an audience, investigating my own body and its relationship with landscape and the materials of that landscape. I want to hold space for the sense of silliness or fun - or absurdities, which is difficult. It’s always a meditation on how queer ecologies and the limitless exuberance of queer raves, and the political nature of that joy are muddied by a catastrophising and lamenting of this burning world. My work is an exploration of community, history and economics questioning what global systems we are a part of.Recently I’ve been researching the slag tips of the Rhondda, those discarded and unwanted environments - looking at the power and danger of this slippage. I want to explore the idea of the slag - the leftover material, the discarded stuff.

Rhys is the recipient of the COMMON Award, Jerwood Live Work Fund in 2021 and has also made work with National Theatre Wales, Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru & The Pleasance. He took his one person show The Land of My Fathers and Mothers and Some Other People to Edinburgh. Rhys currently works at YmA, Pontypridd. He was part of the Future Wales Fellowship with ACW in 2022 and is a founding member of queer, Welsh performance collective CWM RAG.