Tigers & Dragons: India and Wales in Britain, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea

Opening on 23 May 2025, Tigers & Dragons explores the iconography of South Asian nations and Wales; examining how they have imagined themselves—or been imagined—over the centuries. If India was the Jewel in the Imperial Crown, could we argue that Wales was England’s first colony? As Wales struggles for its identity within ‘British-ness’, it is timely to re-assess the way it contributed to, benefited from and, even, suffered for Britain’s Imperial ambitions. The show investigates the British Empire’s legacy and its continuing relevance for Welsh identity as well as for India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Exhibition continues until 2 November 2025.

Image credit: Iwan Bala (b. 1956), Mappa Mundi — Carta Fragmentada, 2005, mixed media on khadi paper, 70.6 x 102.2 cm, acquired 2007. © The Artist.