BIOGRAPHY
Jordan Sallis (b. 1996) is a Welsh artist living and working in the South Wales Valleys.
Her practice is rooted in reverence for the natural world. She approaches making as both a creative process and a spiritual act, guided by a deep veneration for land, season, and material.
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Working across painting, illustration, mixed media, and installation, she centres organic materials as both subject and medium. She often crafts her own inks, papers, and tools from natural resources, allowing the process of gathering and transforming materials to become integral to the artwork itself. For Sallis, the act of making functions as ritual — an embodied way of uniting belief and matter.
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Her work is shaped by the intense emotional states associated with Quiet Borderline Personality Disorder. Creating marks and imagery to visualise these internal experiences is cathartic; her practice operates both as a coping mechanism and as a window into heightened or borderline emotional states. Through the use of organic materials and emotionally charged processes, Sallis explores both the fragility and resilience of the human psyche.
EXHIBITIONS
"Unhinged"
60th Anniversary
Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre
2026
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​"Metamorphosis"
The Transmissions Collective Gallery
2026
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"Ochre Pains"
Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre
2026
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"Tabitha"
Domestic
The Animal Art Space
2025
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"Letting Loose"
Open Torfaen
Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre
2024
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"Freedom"
Seclusion
Meta Space Gallery
2024
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"Freedom"
Aildanio
Glyn Vivian, Swansea
2023 22nd July- 3rd September
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"Freedom"
Aildanio
Oriel Davies, Newton
2023 9th June - 9th July
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"Freedom"
Aildanio
Ty Pawb, Wrexham
2023 21st April - 27th May
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"Freedom"
Aildanio
Galeri Caernafon
2023 3rd March - 8th April
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"Freedom"
Aildanio
Cynon Valley Museum, Aberdare
2023 7th January - 11th February
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"Freedom"
Aildanio
G39, Cardiff
2022 18th November - 21st December
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Solidarity of Hope - "I See You"
Unity Festival, Ffwrnes Llanelli
2022 2nd July
"Shrine of Jörd"
Children In Need Charity Auction, Pontypool
2021 1st November - 17th November
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"Freedom"
Rima Rupa
Jogja Disability Arts Biennale​
2021 18th October - 30th October
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"Grounding"
The Postcard Project - Artists' Responding To...
London
2021 14th August
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"Freedom"
Art. The Welsh Perspective - South Wales Artist' Gallery
2021 1st March
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"Freedom"
Korkutatamtgsf - Osmaniye Korkut Ata Üniversity
Plastic Arts Group Online Exhibition
2020 8th June
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"Freedom"
Haus_A_Rest - Online
2020 7th June
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"Sanctuary, Studio, Inspiration"
Haus_A_Rest - Online
2020 14th May
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"Can You Hear Me?"
Markajart - Online
2020 19th May
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"Isolation"
MsBlackInk - Online
2020 8th May
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"Freedom"
The Isolation Archive - Online
2020 5th May
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"Freedom"
2msquared.net - Online
2020 27th April
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“Natural Artworks”
Ebenezer Centre, Pontypool
2018 7th July – 28th July
“My Sanctuary”
University Of South Wales, Treforest
2018 1st June – 7th June
“Process, Purification, Purpose”
University Of South Wales, Treforest
2017 19th May
“Shrine Of Jord”
Amgueddfa Pontypridd Museum, Treforest
2017 6th March – 27th April
“Shrine Of Jord”
University Of South Wales, Treforest
2017 16th January
“Organic Paints”
Ebenezer Centre, Pontypool
2016 22nd July - 24th July
“Plein Air Painting Competition completed with Organic Paints”
Pontypool Museum, Pontypool
2016 26th June – 10th July
“Oil Paintings”
Ebenezer Centre, Pontypool
2015 23rd July - 25th