The Women’s Arts Association Wales is an organisation committed to addressing isolation and exclusion experienced by women in the arts. The Association began as the Arts Discussion Group within the Women’s Committee of the South Glamorgan County Council, in 1984. The group became the South East Wales Women’s Arts Association and a registered charity in 1997. The Association organised its first annual International Women’s Day festival in 1986. Until 1994 all work for the association was carried out on a voluntary basis. In that year WAA gained its first funding from Cardiff Council, which enabled it to employ its first member of staff.  WAAW works in partnership with practitioners, communities and funding bodies to develop accessible, creative opportunities for women, celebrating diversity and equality across all art forms. In 2010 the Arts Council withdrew its funding so now all the Association's work is voluntary. 

Dilys Jackson lives in Cardiff and works at the Butetown Artists’ Studios. She has travelled and worked in Europe, Australia, America and the Middle East and has exhibited in Europe, America and Russia. She has undertaken various commissions and residencies such as the Sight Garden, Stackpole, Dyfed, the Copper Mill Millennium Sculpture in Greenfield Valley, Flint, the Spiked Pollen Form Llandough Hospital, a Leighton Studios Fellowship at Banff, Canada and US/UK Cast Iron Residencies in Wales and the US. Her work is in the collections of The National Museum and Gallery of Wales, The National Library of Wales, New Hall Collection,  Edward Murray College, Cambridge, The University of South Wales, Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Franconia Sculpture Park, MN USA, Salem Art Works Sculpture Park, NY, USA and numerous private collections. 

Jacqueline Alkema was born in the Netherlands in 1948 and moved to Wales living in the Rhondda Valleys whilst studying for a B.A Fine Art and finally settling in Cardiff in the 1990's. Influenced by Dutch and Flemish painting she works mostly in oil but also uses mixed media and collage. With painting, drawing or collage she aims to construct emotionally complex images. Her themes can be domesticity, sexuality or childhood memories. She has an interest in iconic women's portraiture and her inspiration comes from personal experiences, images, film, reading and research. She has exhibited widely and has work in national and international collections, and has been involved with the Women's Arts Association of Wales for over 30 years, being a Trustee, committee member and past Chair. She is also a member of The Welsh Group and the Contemporary Art Society for Wales.

Dianne (Di) Setch studied at Leicester College of Art and over the years since worked in commercial and theatre design, exhibition and curatorial work in art galleries and museums and teaching in Higher Education. From 1976 to 1983 she administrated a large organisation specifically for artists and designers in Wales (AADW) and throughout the 1980s organised exchange exhibitions and artists residencies between Wales and Germany. In 1983 she formed and subsequently administrated until 1996 the Women’s Arts Discussion Group (the embryonic Women’s Arts Association) and the Women’s Art Forum for Cardiff City Council. In 1986 Dianne began to act as a consultant to art galleries and advise artists on their art practices. She taught computer art and design courses from 1994 and in 1999 established the Women’s Arts Digital Art Workshop. From 1961 onwards Dianne mounted solo exhibitions of her art and showed in group exhibitions and installation events in the UK , Europe and the USA. She won the Printmaker Award for the 2006 Welsh Artist of the Year.