Climate, Nature & Music Panel
Royal Welsh College
​of Music & Drama

​Friday 12th June 2026

Cheryl has been invited as a Guest Panelist for a discussion regarding Climate, Nature & Music at The Royal College of Music & Drama. Open to composers and instrumentalists studying at RWCMD, the panel is part of the 'World Environment Series' being led by Nina Martin. Many thanks to Rhian Christabel for the invitation

​If you would like to invite Cheryl as a Guest Panelist/Speaker at your event, feel free to get in touch.

​Natur am Byth Book Launch
Penllergare Valley Woodlands
Sunday 19th April - 5.30pm
Outdoors Classroom 

Bats, Orchids & Adders: A Response through Creative Writing by Elysium Scribes, Swansea & District Writers' Circle & Ystradgynlais Creative Writing Group.

​The Effaith Exhibition Launch
Ty Pawb, Wrexham.
17th April -17th July

Cheryl's piece 'Himalayan Birch Mantra' has travelled to Ty Pawb Gallery with the Effaith Exhibition - A National Exhibition led by Disability Arts Cymru touring across Wales for 18 months. You can see a digital version of the work by pressing the link below.

Women Who Create Wales Film Festival Volcano Theatre
01/03/26 - SOLD OUT

Cheryl is very excited that on St. David's Day, her film 'Lesser Horseshoe Bat Lullaby' made with Hemiola Choir will  feature at 'Women who Create Wales' Film Festival  Volcano Theatre, Swansea, organised by Mioe Creative Productions. The film was made as part of Cheryl's role as Associate Artist with Natur Am Byth FREE ENTRY.

Cockles & Meadows: Eco-Sustainability, Then & Now Screening ​Feb 10th 2026 

Cheryl's film 'Cockles & Meadows: Eco-Sustainability, Then & Now' has been selected for screening at an event organised by Project Seagrass entitled, Healthy Coastlines Community Film Night, at Llanelli Wetlands Centre. The event is on February 10th at 6-8pm. It's free entry. If you'd like to find out more, here's the link
www.tickettailor.com/events/projectseagrass/1988144

​Cockles & Meadows was funded by
​Disability Arts Cymru & The National Library of Wales

Effaith / Effect
National Visual Arts Exhibition
Disability Arts Cymru
​Galeri Caernarfon 
​6th Feb 2026

Cheryl's visual sound art entitled 'Himalayan Birch Mantra' is one of 15 artworks selected for Effaith by Disability Arts Cymru for their National Exhibition which is now touring Wales' most prestigious galleries for the next 12 months. 
Cheryl designed a tree-music mandala as a visual portal into her sound art. Printed with handmade paper, stained with oak gall ink, it has an accompanying QR code leading to a video explainer with BSL interpreter, detailing how & why she notated the music mantra from the markings of Himalayan Birch trees at the National Botanic Garden of Wales, as part of her Future Wales Fellowship.

For those unable to attend the Galeri Caernarfon you can see the digital representation of the piece by clicking HERE

Natur am Byth PHASE 2 
Sept 2025 - March 2027

Cheryl is very excited to be commissioned for Phase 2 of Nature am Byth as an Associate Artist covering the Swansea area. From January 2026, she is working with 3 creative writing groups to respond to the films from Phase 1. Elysium Scribes, Swansea & District Writer's Circle & Ystradgynlais Creative Writing Group. Cheryl is curating and edting the work to publish an ebook which will be part of a launch event at Penllergare Valley Woods in April. ​(full details to follow)

CULTURA INGLESA
​COMMISSION, BRAZIL
​August - November 2025

​Cheryl is very excited to share that she has been selected to create a Digital Micro Commission for the Cultura Inglesa Festival in Brazil with the theme of 'environmental responsibility'. The Commission is in partnership with Unlimited. Cheryl is 1 of 6 artists selected, 3 from the UK & 3 from Brazil. She is composing a piece of music by transposing the climatological readings of the highest average temperatures in the Amazonian Rainforests over the 60 years of her lifetime. As a comparative piece, the music will be accompanied by a nature narrative of the rainfall & storms within the Celtic Rainforests of the UK. The music & nature narrative will then be embedded in a watercolour graphic score, which she will film with Artist & Tree Historian Janis Fry. The Cultura Inglesa Exhibition will be in Brazil & Online, with live Q&A's from October to November 2025.

Natur am Byth
​Live Streaming Film Event
MAY 28th 2025 - 6.30pm - 8.30pm

Cheryl is very excited to be part of the inaugural screening of Natur am Byth, showcasing the 10 Associate Artist Commissions from across Wales. Her Lesser Horseshoe Lullaby is composed from the sonar readings of the threatened bats as they tend their pups in their maternity roost. The lullaby was then recorded and performed by Hemiola Choir at Penllergare Valley Woods. The Commissions tell the stories of Wales' most vulnerable species and the importance of our connection to nature. The Artists joining Cheryl for the livestream event are Catrin Menai, Patricia MacKinnon-Day, Hedydd Ioan, Lily Tonkin-Wells, Martha Orbach, Artstation, Vivian Ross-Smith, Bettina Furnée & Boredom research. Click the link below to book your place.

Wales Arts International Strategy Framework 2024 - 2034
GUEST ARTIST SPEAKER.
​20th May 2024 @ 5pm

Cheryl has been invited by Wales Arts International & Disability Arts Cymru to speak about her work across the globe at an International Strategy Framework. The Online event invites disabled artists to feedback and into on the strategy going forwards. She will talk about how she developed the core philosophy of her work giving different examples of how local issues can be relevant globally, and vice verse, such as her sound art piece with the Helmholtz Institue science team in Antartica, to her interantionally touring rainforest symphony, representing the UK in Qatar. Click the link below to register for the event.

Creative Clip Commission March - May 2025
Wales Broadcast Archive, National Library of Wales & Disability Arts Cymru

Cheryl is very excited to have been selected as 1 of 2 artists for a new Commission, creating digital artwork for the Creative Clip funded by the Wales Broadcast Archive, National Library of Wales & Disability Arts Cymru. Based on the beach in her hometown, Cheryl will be composing music with the planting patterns of a new seagrass meadow & combining this with the stories of Llanelli's cocklepicking past, told by older members of the community, prompted by images from the Archive. She'll be collaborating with The Seagrass Project, Cilymaenllwyd Care Home & Ty Golau who promote well being & memory. She'll also be working with drone pilot Jarro Media to capture aerial shots of the seagrass. Cheryl's piece aims to draw parallels between sustainable eco-practices of past and present.

Lapidus International
Living Research Community
GUEST SPEAKER
​Saturday 5th April 2025

With members from all over the world, including US, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, France, Hungary & the UK, Cheryl is very happy to be sharing her Artist Research Trail, Sonic Nature: Sensing the Garden of Wales with an international community of creative well-being practitioners. She will give a deep insight into how her practice informed research has been received by the 3000 people who have experienced it, and importantly, discuss how disability access begins at the core of her work, both for herself as the artist and in terms of engaging communities.

SYMUD Film Festival
Oriel C A R N, Gwynedd
Launch 7th February. One month exhibition.

Cheryl is delighted that her research film montage, Sonic Nature: Sensing the Garden of Wales has been selected for SYMUD Film Festival at Oriel CARN in Gwynedd. All 27 filmmakers are being celebrated at the launch on Friday 7th February and & their work will screen throughout a month long exhibition at the gallery.

Cwrdd: Disability Arts Cymru
​GUEST SPEAKER
​​4th February 2025

​Cheryl will be giving a peep behind the scenes of her Future Wales Fellowship research, online at Cwrdd on 4th February 2025. As guest speaker, she will present a very personal insight into how her disability became a superpower in terms of facilitating access for others & how it enabled her to take her creative practice to a deeper level of connection within the natural world. Please note: a BSL interpreter will be present & subtitles are available. To book your place CLICK HERE

Temple University's Institute of Disabilities, Philadelphia,
​Pennsylvania, USA.
Anthropology of Motherhood Exhibition
​Intersections with Disabilities
Sept 19th 2024 onwards

​Cheryl's collaborative project with Ruth Fabby MBE, 'Breathing on Borrowed Time' has been selected to exhibit at Temple University's Institute of Disabilities, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The piece was commissioned by Fran Flaherty, the Founder of Dyer Arts Centre & Assistant Professor at Carlo University in Pittsburgh, and was also supported by Wales Arts International, The Wetlands Trust, Llanelli & Fusion Carmarthenshire. A behind the scenes blog about the making of 'Breathing on Borrowed Time' is available HERE

Natur am Byth : Associate Artist Commission
​Secretive Species Light & Sound. June 2024 -March 2025

Based in Swansea with Adder Action at Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (ARC), Buglife, and The Bat Conservation Trust, Cheryl is exploring secretive species living on the edge, between and within urban and rural/natural landscapes and what this means for these species, their multi-taxa habitats and the communities live alongside them. The aim of the artist residency is a re-thinking of the way we see species. Nature has an amazing, well-documented ability to help us to heal and lift our feelings of physical and mental well-being. Cheryl will work with the community to tell the fascinating stories of our most vulnerable species through Sound & Light.

Cân y Coed Rainforest Symphony Inclusive Orchestration
​April - January 2025

Cheryl has been selected by the Arts Council of Wales for a Creative Steps Professional Development Award to pursue her vision of orchestrating Cân y Coed for a bass recorder Quintet by devising inclusive methods that take account of her hearing loss, tinnitus & hyperacusis. For 8 months, she is working with 2 professional recorder mentors and a Quintet of musicians based at Ffwrnes Fach, Ffwrnes Theatre with People Speak Up. Her regular blogs about the work are being disseminated across Wales by Disability Arts Cymru, Ty Cerdd Music Centre for Wales and Wales' digital arts channel, AM Cymru. You can read the blogs by clicking the link below.

Future Wales Fellowship : SONIC NATURE Jan 2024 - April 2025

Cheryl has been selected as one of 8 artists for the Future Wales Fellowship. Her research title is 'SONIC NATURE : Sensing the Garden of Wales - the fellowship is an opportunity for Cheryl to delve into her creative practice & explore ways of deepening emotional connection to nature through repurposing technology associated with hearing loss. Cheryl will be Resident Artist at The National Botanic Garden of Wales for her creative enquiry. In addition, she will be attending 3 Fellowship residentials throughout the year at National Trust Stackpole & Elan Valley. The Fellowship is a partnership between Arts Council of Wales, Natural Resoures Wales, National Trust & the Elan Valley Trust, delivered by Peak Cymru. For full details, click the link below.

National Botanic Garden of Wales
Researcher Artist in Residence ​
​2024 - 2025

Cheryl is officially the Researcher ​Artist in Residence at the National Botanic Garden of Wales for 2024 - 2025. The Garden is Cheryl's base for her research with regard to the Future Wales Fellowship (see above). ​The Future Wales Fellowship brings together 8 artists from across Wales to look closely at our relationship with nature and how we might deepen connections. Click LEARN MORE for a bi-lingual explainer & find out how you can join Cheryl at the Garden to take part in her research.

St. David Award Finalist Ceremony Senedd Cymru
22nd February 2024

Cheryl attended the official announcement at the Senedd by First Minister, Mark Drakeford, of the Finalists for the St.David Awards 2024 - they are the highest accolades awarded by Welsh Government & out of the many 100's of nominees, Cheryl has been shortlisted as a finalist for her contribution to Wales nationally & internationally in the Culture category for her work raising awareness of fragile ecologies with Cân y Coed Rainforest Symphony.
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'It is a great honour to be selected by the First Minister & the esteemed Awards Committee for such a prestigious recognition of my work.' - Cheryl Beer

Filming at Llanelly House ​
Like an Egg Productions
​14th February 2024

Like an Egg Productions were commissioned by the Welsh Government to make a film with Cheryl about her work both nationally and internationally. She was joined at Llanelly House by Suzanne Samuel from Fusion. Carmarthenshire. Filming then continued outdoors in nature, at The Wetlands Llanelli, where the crew captured Cheryl recording the biorhythms from beneath the bark of trees. The film will be shown as part of the Official St.David Awards showcase in April at the Welsh College of Music & Drama. 

Breathing on Borrowed Time
Dyer Arts Centre, New York ​
Rocester University & National Technical
Institute for the Deaf 

Cheryl is honoured to be exhibiting a collaboration during 2024 with Ruth Fabby Mbe, Breathing on Borrowed Time @ Dyer Arts Centre, New York, Rocester University & the US National Technical Institute for the Deaf, the world's first & largest technological college for deaf & hard of hearing students. You can find out more about it by clicking the link below. 

Sound Memories Radio

Sound Memories is a Dementia Friendly Online Radio Station archiving local Life Stories, Nature Narratives, Sound Walks, as well as linking Care Homes to Social Media content to engage older people with the environment. It began as research for Cheryl's Masters Degree 12 years ago and has grown into her heart project. As well as running the website, Cheryl manages a 'Friends of Sound Memories' Facebook Page to connect those interested. She contributes to National research on dementia and help students with thier thesis questions, as well as giving talks on creativity and memory.

Cheryl works with an applied Empowerment Model that she devised as part of her Masters Degree to create work with older people - the model was published in a co-paper with Nick Andrews for International Storytelling for Health. She is honoured to have received a GOLD National Care Award for the work, as well as an Excellence in Digital Media Award. To visit the radio station, follow the link.