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
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
With/Gyda Simon Whitehead & Kirstie Simson In this next iteration of Practicing Places, alongside collective studio practice we will spend time in the local Afon Cych and Dulais river catchment. Journeying upriver this time to explore the wider ecology of the valley and its mythical landscapes, we will immerse ourselves with the river’s course and its ecosystems. Learning ways to be in correspondence with its ongoing-ness, responding to its life forms and movements, we will lead practices Read More
I’m delighted to be a contributor to this series amongst some wonderful movers, makers and thinkers… The EcoSomatics Conversations Series invite sharing of engagement, practices and thinking around environmental awareness through embodiment activities, dance and art. It posits a definition of EcoSomatics as of the body-mind-ecology and takes the form of open public dialogues between two (or more) people: independent artists, practioners, and academics. The conversations take place online from 4-5.30pm. There is no fee Read More