FRAMEWORK are a collective based in Swansea. Formed in September 2006 we began by meeting once a week to talk about each other's work.

Our launch event Bring Music Bake Bread in February 2007 invited people to bring along their favourite piece of music to play and to bake bread together in Mission Gallery. This event saw over one hundred and fifty people baking bread together throughout the evening.

Our individual practices have a multidisciplinary approach ranging from live and participatory work, print, drawing, video, sound work and installation, but what is key to our shared practice is the need for community and interaction.

Aware of the difficulties of being an artist in a non-centric city in the UK we wanted to extend the support we had created for each other and initiated a monthly discussion group where artists could bring their work to talk about and to get feedback on. Feedback will be re-launched in Summer 2009.

Framework are mostly known for the self-funded Framework Social. Held in an old Social Club since May 2007, the Social was the first of its kind in Wales and has gone on to inspire similar events across Wales. For Framework Social artists have been invited to participate in the event in different ways. It has facilitated lively performance work, installation, poetry, book launches, interactive works and one-night residencies from emerging and more established artists alike and continues to build on a sense of community for artists in the area, enabling a sharing of ideas and the forming of new collaborations.

Although having different approaches to our own work the group maintains shared interests such as addressing how artists can work together and support each other and how art has the ability to bring people together, forming temporary communities.

We have also organised exhibitions for ourselves and for our peers, most notably Annexe, in 2008 which was an exhibition of work not selected for Wales' cultural festival National Eisteddfod of Wales held at tactileBOSCH, Cardiff.

We have strong links with other artist groups in Wales including Blaengar, Showroom and Celf Eden and we have also worked with Mission Gallery, Elysium Gallery, Taliesin Arts Centre, tactileBOSCH, Wales Arts Resource Programme at g39, Axis, and Swansea Metropolitan University.

Members are Adele Vye, Dan McCabe, Fern Thomas, Owen Griffiths, Paul Woodland and Thom O'Sullivan.