Developing Dylan – another workshop
Performance poet Martin Daws and I did a workshop for LIterature Wales with excluded pupils. They were great and worked really hard for us at generating poetry in response to a line from Dylan Thomas, drawing to music by Busnoys and then making both a book and a...
Maria Hayes draws Busnoys on iPad
See my new video of drawings made on an iPad live in response to Busnoys performing on my Artworks page. The drawings were projected on a screen above the musicians as they played. Music with permission of Martin Pyne and Busnoys.
Cerebellium 2014
Cerebellium 2014 was an immersive theatre experience. I painted the action live while Professor Guillaume Thierry, playing Professor Kurtz, explained the workings of his 'brain in the vat'. The brain communicated through music to scientists and friends. Professor...
Cerebellium 2014
Cerebellium rehearsals are going well. We have built the set and it is almost ready for us to begin working in. We have been developing the piece on paper, in discussion and in dark corridors. Tomorrow things begin in earnest. An invited audience will see this phase...
Presentation at Drawing in the University Today, International Drawing Conference, Porto.
I was invited to present my paper Learning to Dance on the Page as part of the International Drawing Conference in Porto, Portugal on 1 June 2013. The two day conference had Drawing in the University Today as its theme. The conference was a great success with many...
After Hours at the Polestar Club
Playwright and performer Christine Watkins invited me to be part of 'After Hours at the Polestar Club'. In 2010 we visited the Arctic together in search of the Northern Lights, and although we didn't see them, the trip provided inspiration for us both in a number of...