Artform: Multi-Arts
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As an artist and disabled artist, my work comes from a different perspective. I look at subjects and ideas through each of my different disciplines - from the written word to still photographic images and the moving image, through to my work with movement and dance. When I work on a project I work with all of these disciplines to move my ideas forward, always looking at the discipline`s codes and conventions and deciding on the most effective route. The different disciplines each have their strengths and weaknesses which, used in the right way, can bring the audience into those worlds for the benefit of the idea and not for the sake of the discipline itself.
The aim of my work is to put the light on human subjects and stories that have been talked about but have not been given a true platform for discussion. Some of these subjects, like the ones in my upcoming project in September in Chapter Arts Centre Leviticus which has been backed by the Arts Council of Wales (Small grants Scheme), have been talked about in the press, the home and in history books, but not taken beyond the cold discipline of books and lecture.
Within the different disciplines and my identity as a disabled person I have found that I have to use many different ways of explaining and communicating an idea before it has a chance of being fully understood. This is why it is important to me to explore these issues within my work.
I have also just finished a short tour of the play The Butcher Bird under the Arts council Nightout scheme. The play reveals an insight into a little know piece of Welsh history which changed the course of World War 2. The tour takes place in and around the Llanelli area.
I am also in the process of submitting a project I co-worked on, a 15min digital short Four Corners Of A Frame, to film festival around the world. The film tells of righting a wrong, lost love, the relationship between an artist and the muse and how our past effects our future, all thought the eyes of a discovered painting.
