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Perspectives 2024 A collaboration with artist Nasia Sarwar-Skuse, Ways of Working and St Fagans National Museum of History. The project explored the museum as a space for upholding and deconstructing power narratives. ATC members spent time investigating the museum collection textiles and created a series of individual embroidery works that were purchased for the museum collection.

APHELION; Houses for Animals // Shelters for circadian rhythms 2019 Aurora Trinity Collective members created a outdoor space for sharing and learning together skills in natural felting, to make sustainable homes for wildlife. Commissioned by Global Gardens and Spit and Sawdust.

Aurora Phenomena 2022-24 A 2 year collaboration with Artes Mundi, establishing a co-creative methodology for ATC. Promoting new opportunities for women with experience of the asylum system and seeking sanctuary, to develop and share their creative and cultural knowledge and skills within the context of contemporary art community in Wales.

Friendship Banners 2023 ATC produced eight large textile banners, created from hand printed and dyed fabrics depicting screen printed images of friendship. Walked through streets of Cardiff to promote connections and friendship, and part of COMMONPLACE at g39.

Ncheta 2023-24 Created and designed by Aurora Trinity Collective and supported by Artes Mundi.`A large scale textile cascade across the length of the Glynn Vivian Gallery atrium. Alongside the installation, multilingual audio recordings played.This interplay of sight and sound transformed the atrium into an immersive experience. Working with photographer Amak Mahmoodian to explore visual documentation.

Lavender Bag Sleep Project 2017-2019 A project based around the production of bespoke lavender bags to promote better sleep, reducing stress and anxiety, for patients with suffering with experience of trauma and anxiety. Commissioned by CHAPS a local GP Practise for Asylum Seekers and Vulnerable Groups. This developed into a Social Prescription relationship with the surgery.

Ncheta 2023-24 Created and designed by Aurora Trinity Collective and supported by Artes Mundi.`A large scale textile cascade across the length of the Glynn Vivian Gallery atrium. Alongside the installation, multilingual audio recordings played.This interplay of sight and sound transformed the atrium into an immersive experience. Working with photographer Amak Mahmoodian to explore visual documentation.

Platform 2 Language Exchange 2025 A collaboration with Arcade Campfa and Peak Cymru, creating new networks, exploring rural landscapes, language and sound. This was a series of visits to Abergevenny to walk in the countryside and record the landscape, alongside sharing workshop with artist Nasia Sarwar-Skuse and Ogechi Dimeke. Resulting in a small Riso publication.

Still Here: Black presence and persistence in Wales 2024 Was a project that looked at themes that include language, identity, faith as a component of identity, the experience of being a Black woman in Wales. This was a collaboration with Black Oot Here and There. A group of ATC members developed a series of conversations exploring the diverse experiences of being Black in Wales and recorded by Freya Dooley. As a way of supporting the framework of the dialogue the group worked with animator Dexter Clifford Keane.

The Hiraeth Quilt 2017 Collaboration with St Fagans National Museum of History and Made in Roath. A large scale quilt based on conversations and memories of what we call and define as home, created by women with experience of the asylum system. Shown in the National Eisteddfod in Cardiff in 2018

The Trinity Pattern 2024 The Trinity Pattern textile artwork was inspired by the culture and history of those who use the Trinity Centre. Developed from a series of pattern illustrations relating to the memories and cultural traditions of the group members. The individual patterns were brought together by designer George Manson to create a unique design,a collective pattern of lives and community of the Trinity Centre.

Walking, Talking, and Weaving Landscapes 2024-26 A three year monthly walking programme, to support wellbeing, creative development, and combat isolation. Recognising the barriers for women to access the countryside of the city. Using public transport and connecting with Welsh rural landscape, sharing memories, and conversations about our relationship with nature.

Collaborative Weaving Project

Collaborative Felting

Perspectives 2024 A collaboration with artist Nasia Sarwar-Skuse, Ways of Working and St Fagans National Museum of History. The project explored the museum as a space for upholding and deconstructing power narratives. ATC members spent time investigating the museum collection textiles and created a series of individual embroidery works that were purchased for the museum collection.

Ncheta 2023-24 Created and designed by Aurora Trinity Collective and supported by Artes Mundi.`A large scale textile cascade across the length of the Glynn Vivian Gallery atrium. Alongside the installation, multilingual audio recordings played.This interplay of sight and sound transformed the atrium into an immersive experience. Working with photographer Amak Mahmoodian to explore visual documentation.