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Practicing Places (shawling): A movement and making workshop

  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

3 Mar 2025

Snag workshop – Harlech

Snag – a movement workshop with Cai Tomos and Simon Whitehead on Harlech beach Saturday 9th April 11am-4.30pm Cai Tomos & Simon Whitehead have known each other for many years, they first met on Harlech beach in 1996 during a movement workshop that Simon was facilitating. In this new workshop they return to Harlech to share a recent collaborative practice, ‘Snag’. Snag has developed during the pandemic, it is a live process of moving in relationship Read More

5 Apr 2022

soft matter- process

I contact people and ask if we can meet and talk about the ways they hold their hands, I would like to draw them, record them. We meet in people’s front rooms, an office, a camper van, a studio, a cafe. We talk about a language of holds, about the ways the hands hold each other, we experiment with the hands in different arrangements. We identify one hold, one that feels like it meets something inside. I invite the Read More

7 May 2020