We are delighted to announce that two visual storytellers have been selected to join Coed Coexist: Kiowa Casey and Eleri Parry.
Through their distinct creative practices, Kiowa and Eleri will work alongside communities, artists, and researchers to explore the relationships between people, ecology, culture, and place within the Welsh woodland landscape. Their work will help shape new conversations around coexistence, connection, and environmental storytelling.
Over the coming months, both artists will develop new work in response to the Coed Coexist project, documenting encounters, perspectives, and stories emerging through the programme.
We look forward to sharing the development of their work and welcoming audiences into the evolving story of Coed Coexist.
About Coed Coexist
Coed Coexist is a collaborative project initiated by Pen Llŷn-based artists Junko Mori and John Egan, in partnership with Plas Glyn-y-Weddw. Launched with a symposium in September 2024, the project explores our relationship with trees and woodland, highlighting connections between ecology, community, and creative practice.
Rooted in the local context of Pen Llŷn, Coed Coexist brings together artists, communities, and environmental thinking, and will culminate in an exhibition at Plas Glyn-y-Weddw between May and July 2026.
Follow the link here for more information on the project.
Kiowa Casey
Kiowa Casey is a Welsh fine art photographer and artist bookmaker from the Llŷn Peninsula, and a graduate of the University of the West of England with a BA (Hons) in Photography.
Working primarily with medium-format black-and-white photography, her practice explores psychological landscapes, relationships, and experience.
Drawing from personal experience and literature, Casey uses metaphor and analogy to construct quiet narratives that sit between reality and dream. Her poetic projects call for greater empathy, nurturing connection through compassion.
Kiowa Casey’s approach to visual storytelling is rooted in contextual research and a sensitivity to people, place, and lived experience. Her practice begins through close observation, reflection, and taking time to understand the environments and narratives she is responding to. She is interested in how meaning is built through detail, and how quieter moments can hold deeper significance.
Working poetically between observation and reflection, Kiowa uses photography to suggest rather than overstate, approaching layered subjects with care, clarity, and compassion.
Through Coed Coexist, she is interested in the idea that everything within the woodland becomes part of the woodland itself — including the people, the making, and the relationships formed through shared activity over time. Her work pays particular attention to the quieter exchanges between people, materials, and place that gradually shape a sense of community.
Her intention is to create a calm and attentive visual response that reflects the care, relationships, and creative processes embedded within Coed Coexist.
Instagram: @kiowacasey
Website: kiowacasey.com (new site currently in development)
Eleri Parry
Eleri Parry is a filmmaker and digital creator from Wales with a background in film and art. She studied Art & Design at Grŵp Llandrillo Menai before graduating from the University for the Creative Arts in 2021 with a BA in Film Production, specialising in production design. Since graduating, she has worked as an art department assistant on Rownd a Rownd, alongside freelance art direction for music videos and short-form content for organisations including Siop Iard and Cwmni Frân Wen.
Eleri Parry’s approach to the project combines digital documentation through video and photography alongside the recording of artworks, sketches, notes, and contextual materials created throughout the process. Her practice explores the landscape surrounding Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, capturing natural textures, sounds, and atmospheres from across Pen Llŷn.
Through layered imagery, sound recording, and conversations with participating artists, Eleri aims to create an immersive visual narrative that places both nature and creativity at the forefront. Inspired by the landscape, community, and Welsh cultural identity of Pen Llŷn, her work explores the idea of the tree as a form of contemporary folklore woven into the wider story of Coed Coexist.
Instagram: @eleri.film