2 Creative movement workshops for adults on Sundays: 16 November & 14 December @ Yr Hen Ysgol / The Old School, Trewyddel/ Moylegrove. 11am – 2pm. (£40 for both). These workshops are for those interested in exploring movement as a creative medium. We will delve playfully into the body’s relationship with materials, to weather, to others. Using movement scores, responsive tasks, meditations and ways of witnessing to deepen into imaginal realms, through drawing and writing we will Read More
A release of my recent guitar – river recordings. Digital Album, streaming & download, plus limited edition CD and booklet Produced by East Cape Calling Visit Bandcamp for details and pre-orders: https://simonwhitehead.bandcamp.com/album/dulais-the-dark-stream
I’m delighted to be invited for a conversation with Rosemary Lee as part of Series 3 of C-DaRE invites … ‘we explore how our human bodies are nourished by different ways of understanding, imagining and being with the land.’ Artists and old friends Rosemary Lee and Simon Whitehead discuss land as a primal influence on their relative practices. Thinking of land as a verb as well as a noun, they consider what it is to land and how Read More
28-31 August 2025 During Locator 33 we will return to Coetir Tycanol Woods, one of the most diverse lichen ecosystems in Wales and the UK. How might we learn of bodily/ interspecies collaboration and creative community from these mysterious and ancient beings? In attempting to notice and learn from these organisms and the places in which they thrive, to move as lichen is to combine our differences, to be together in ways that we couldn’t if Read More
With Kirstie Simson and Simon Whitehead Practicing Places 2025 (shawling) With Kirstie Simson and Simon Whitehead 21 – 25 July, 2025 (in person) Cwm Cych, west Wales. We have called our work together Practicing Places. This collaboration has been developed as an intensive movement workshop each summer since 2017 in the small village of Abercych in rural Pembrokeshire. Each workshop lasts 4 days and participants are accommodated in the village and surrounding area. Based on the premise that Read More
To touch lichen is to touch something that pre-exists our human lifetimes, peer closely and you see that they are all distinctly and mysteriously themselves, made up of many collaborating lifeforms. Crustose, Foliose, Fruticose – lichens thrive everywhere, on buildings, trees, rocks, road signs and gravestones. As a movement artist, I’m interested in how the slow growth of lichens, their symbiosis and adherence to the earth might inform gentle movement, inner meditative practices and cultivate soft Read More