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Sophie Mak-Schram’s To Shift a Stone unveiled as part of Perspective(s) at National Museum Cardiff and Chapter

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Artist Sophie Mak-Schram opens their latest exhibition, To Shift a Stone, as part of Perspective(s), a bold arts programme which reimagines Welsh history, challenges historical narratives and amplifies overlooked voices. This two-part exhibition is the outcome of two years of col­lab­or­ation with Amgueddfa Cymru and Chapter. 

Opening at National Museum Cardiff on 14 June 2025 and at Chapter Arts Centre on 13 September 2025, the two-part exhibition explores how power is experienced, shared, and challenged within museums and cultural spaces.

Working in collaboration with activists, community workers, artists and staff from across both organisations, Sophie has developed a range of collaborative ‘tools’ that challenge and reimagine power structures. These tools range from access templates and new working processes to modified megaphones, ceramics and sound pieces. A selection of these ‘tools’ will be on show as part of To Shift a Stone, encouraging visitors to critically engage with how they relate to cultural institutions, culture and power.

At National Museum Cardiff, the exhibition considers how objects are collected and identified, whose voice can be heard when speaking about these objects, and how to interrupt some of the hidden rules of the museum.

At Chapter, a new exhibition and artwork in the entrance and café will get visitors thinking about how and where people can gather, who they can meet, and what helps them do it in different ways.

The exhibitions feature new commissioned work by Sophie and collaborators, alongside key items from across the museum’s collections, including the Schools Outreach Collection and the Asian Art corridor. To Shift a Stone highlights how power shapes what is seen, preserved, and interpreted.

“Decolonising involves the reorientation of many values and structures that currently oppress most of us. The question is, in the European context, can one decolonise from a colonial centre? Over the past two years, I’ve worked with a range of people to think and make responses to this - to name, change and reimagine structures and values that oppress so many of us.”

—Sophie Mak-Schram

Supported by Welsh Government through the Anti-racist Wales Action Plan, Perspective(s) is a pioneering initiative that brings together seven artists to explore the deep and often unspoken connections between Wales and global histories of empire, migration, and resistance.

Perspective(s) is hosted across all seven Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales sites in collaboration with Arts Council of Wales, with each artist shedding light on hidden histories embedded within the national collection.

To Shift a Stone opens on 14 June 2025 at National Museum Cardiff and 13 September at Chapter. It runs until 15 February 2026 at National Museum Cardiff and until 11 January 2026 at Chapter.