Roanna is a Welsh artist, whose practice looks at the theatrics of the landscape and how this can be translated through the relationship between chaos and order. She completed her MFA with the help of a scholarship from James Pantyfedwen, and in the last couple of years she has exhibited in City Gallery (Glasgow), Berntsson Bhattacharjee (London), Videotage HK and Airside (Hong Kong). Before the MFA, Roanna studied Fine Art: Painting at Camberwell College of Art, and stayed in London until her next adventures in Glasgow.

My practice is a theatre without walls, it is a storm written in the perfect scripture of the grass underfoot. 

Last summer I visited Herculaneum, a town that reached its setting at the eruption of Vesuvius. The buildings uncovered had bright yellow, orange and red frescoes inside. And where the painting had decayed back to stone, the conservation team had drawn lines to finish the pictures. These bright reds, this gradient from yellow is a result of the gases that Vesuvius exhaled, the reds were once yellow. In the same hues as her fury and the colours that we know as an ending – the walls of Herculaneum hold on to that moment forever and wait for dusk each day to reflect its story. The metaphoric points to the real, and the theatrics of these walls are synonymous with the outside. I think this captures the feelings of my work.