an event in sound; Including a small collection of performance-sound scores & recorded sound pieces, all emerging from first person field recordings made in west Wales over the last 12 years. These variously explore the polyphonics of a small river, the sound worlds of woodland lichen, roosting studio jackdaws, ravens, accompanied by banjo, harp, zither. Most of these works were made with Melbourne – based sound artist Barnaby Oliver, with whom I have collaborated for over 30 Read More
January 7-10th 2027. Canolfan Pentre Ifan Centre. Sir Penfro/ Pembrokeshire. Cymru – Wales A moving laboratory for passing through wintertime together; re-storing, changing our coats, reading to each other and making slow…we wrap, swaddle, warm, and immerse in active dormancy, eating well, walking the wintering woods, embracing the conditions. Proceeding through movement, walking scores, creative companionship, woodland immersion and with an ode to this season; celebrating how it is felt and how it shapes us. We Read More
I have been creatively engaged with the Afon Dulais river that flows close to my home since 2006; a practice of listening to the river’s shifting seasonal frequencies whilst attempting to materialise these in sound. Immersing myself physically within the river I use the machinic sensitivity of a Fender Stratocaster to allow places of eddy, surface movement and interference in the river’s body to express themselves through the guitar’s strings. I am interested in what I am able to Read More
DAEAR-ESGYRN-TYWYDD. Gweithdai Symud Creadigol, Brynberian. Creative movement workshops for adults on Sundays in Autumn/Winter 2026: 20 September, 25 October, 22 November, 20 December. 11am – 3pm (£120). £60 booking deposit, balance paid in September. These workshops are for those interested in exploring movement as a creative medium. We will explore playfully the body’s relationship to materials, to weather, to others. Using movement scores, responsive tasks and ways of witnessing to deepen into imaginal realms. Through drawing and writing we Read More
FRUITFUL BODIES For COED COEXIST Oriel Plas Glyn y Weddw. 16 May – 12 July 2026 The small branch of the fallen Beech that I was given by John Egan from the Plas woodland was patterned with colonies of Graphis Scripta lichen. The fruiting bodies of these organisms appear as ‘scripts’ or hieroglyphics, the patterns are expressions and always different, and they occupy a living world that is bounded by a transitional boundary, called the pro-thallus. Read More
Walk-shops, Gorfenhaf – July 18/19, 2026. Coetir Tycanol & Neuadd Brynberian Hall Stretchy Symbionts is a celebration of our interwoven-ness with all the other beings. Specifically focussing on lichen life here in west Wales, one of the richest lichen ecosystems in Europe and indeed the planet, we will walk, touch, peer at and co-respond with these organisms. We will consider what it is to be symbiotic and play with the possibilities of being together through ‘stretchy’ Read More