Cerian is a multidisciplinary artist working across performance, film, facilitation and craft. Over the past ten years, their practice has evolved from alternative stand-up comedy and scriptwriting into performance art, experimental facilitation and socially engaged collaborative projects with LGBTQ+ communities, working-class people, neurodivergent people and young people.

They facilitate weekly performance and art workshops, collaborating with participants to develop queer, camp and satirical performances and artwork. They also deliver community projects that focus on the reinterpretation and reclamation of Welsh history and heritage. They are interested in using shared social histories as a source of inspiration for imagining radical futures. Through collaboration, play and collective storytelling, Cerian creates spaces where marginalised identities can be expressed, explored and celebrated, while reclaiming cultural histories and landscapes.

Clowning and play are central to both their personal artistic practice and their work in community arts. They draw on bouffon, commedia dell’arte and other traditional clowning methodologies, alongside principles of play in theatre, as tools for generating ideas and creating performance. The performances they make are often silly, grotesque and brash. They use performance as a way to express the frustrations, elations and confusion they feel about the world around them and their place within it as a fat, queer, femme person. Through clowning, they explore vulnerability, absurdity and resistance, using humour to question social norms and imagine other ways of being.

Growing up queer and working class in rural Wales has shaped their interest in the strange, alternative spaces and ways of being that marginalised people create for themselves and each other. Their practice centres on creating characters and stories that explore their own queer identity, drawing on the mountains, communities and histories that have shaped them. Through oral history and collective storytelling, they document the places that communities hold as safe, significant and sacred, exploring how memory, landscape and queer experience become intertwined.