‘Pontrilas’ from the Golden Valley Molecules Series, 2025

‘Pontrilas’ from the Golden Valley Molecules Series, 2025, is displayed at the G.V. Café & Talk Community Hub and G.V. Fitness Center in Pontrilas.

Cordelia Cembrowicz and Golden Valley residents co-produced the artwork through capturing portraits and gathering reflections that form the heart of the first commissioned artwork.

These portraits were arranged into patterns based on three “feel-good” hormones our bodies produce when we connect socially and enjoy ourselves: oxytocin, serotonin, and adrenaline. Cordelia’s designs were shared with the public in a series of drop-in workshops, where participants created their own patterns. Ideas from these sessions were incorporated into the final artwork, which can now be seen across the Golden Valley.

Our Place Golden Valley is a Meadow Arts project, part of the Our Place Herefordshire programme funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, with match funding from Herefordshire Council under the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

 

About the artist

Cordelia Cembrowicz

Cordelia Cembrowicz is a multidisciplinary artist based in London, exploring themes of political expression, social structures, and the complexities of human experience through sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. She graduated with an MA in Fine Art Printmaking from the Royal College of Art in 2010 and BA in Fine Art from University College Falmouth in 2006.

Her work has been featured in exhibitions such as “How to Meet” with Menna Comminetti at the Freelands Foundation (2018), the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2019) and Survivor Signs at Goldfinger Factory (2015). Cembrowicz received national press for carving miniature sculptures of toothfairies out of human teeth (2006). She has developed a growing interest in representations of community within her artwork, from actively participating in community projects, such as with the feminist protest group Climate Rush to illustrating atomic structures of hormones and creating etchings of crowds, highlighting the strength of collective human experience. A recent commission working with the local community of North Kensington titled ‘Molecule Murals’ will open at a health centre in central London in 2025.

Cordelia’s inventive approach engages with contemporary discourse, encouraging viewers to reflect on pressing societal issues.