Close 2 the Edge

Since June, this year, I have been Mentor for Helfa Gelf's Edge2 Programme
and I am now curating an exhibition at Pontio, Bangor, of the work produced

Mae'r byd celfyddydol a’r byd technolegol yn dod at ei gilydd i archwilio ein profiad dynol yn y byd modern: arddangosfa o weithiau a gynhyrchwyd yn ystod rhaglen YMYL-2-EDGE Helfa Gelf yng Ngofod Arloesi Bocs Gwyn Pontio, o ddydd Sadwrn 19 Ionawr tan ddydd Sul 10 Chwefror 2019. (11:00 - 17:00 dydd Mercher i Sadwrn ac 12:00 - 17:00 ddydd Sul.) 

Art meets tech to question our human experience within the modern world: an exhibition of works produced during Helfa Gelf's YMYL-2-EDGE programme in Pontio’s White Box Innovation Space, from Saturday 19 January – Sunday 10 February 2019. (11:00 – 17:00 Wednesday to Saturday inclusive, and 12:00 - 17:00 Sundays)

Details from the Edge2 exhibition at Pontio's White Box

For  more info on the Edge2 Programme and to read the original call-out and brief, CLICK HERE

You can read interviews with Edge2 participating artists at IAWN = the Integrated Arts & Writing Nexus:

• Lorna Bates
• Stephen Green
• David Thomas
• Susan Cantrill-Williams
• Sarah Holyfield
• Ann Catrin Evans
• Emily Meilleur

EDGE 2 Curator and Artists' Talks 

A Helfa Gelf Workshop / Networking Event

Wednesday 6 February 2019 

The Edge 2 mentoring and exhibition programme has been a great opportunity and a fascinating process for the mentor/curator and artists involved. To hear more about their experiences using new technologies to innovate and push boundaries in their creative practice, do join us at Pontio, White Box/Bocs Gwyn, Level 2, Prifysgol Bangor, Ffordd Deiniol, Bangor, LL57 2TQ

[ Sorry, both events SOLD OUT ]

Curator and Artists Talks at Edge2

Regenerating the Doctor

FROM THE REMY DEAN ARCHIVE : 1998

Interviews with the 7th Doctor, Sylvester McCoy, 

Director Graeme Harper,

and Producer John Nathan Turner

Nearly 30 years ago, the Doctor was going through a very dark time... It seemed that it was not the Daleks, the Cybermen nor the Master who proved to be the Doctor's nemesis, but Jonathan Powell, aka 'The Controller' (of BBC1). The Doctor attempted to escape his fate through the big screen with the movie, starring Paul McGann, in 1996. Then all went quiet...  

It was twenty years ago, in 1998, that I conducted the following interviews with three key players who had witnessed the show's demise, and also provided a glimmer of hope that it may one day return. Little did I know back then, that it would not happen until Julie Gardner, Head of Drama at BBC Wales, joined forces with Russell T Davies to reboot Doctor Who... in 2005. That was a hiatus of 16 years, meaning that a whole generation of British children had been denied the experience of growing up with 'their Doctor' to provide hope and inspiration. 

Now, with the impending new series featuring a completely new regeneration of the Doctor, to be given form by Jodie Whittaker, and with Chris Chibnall as the new show-runner, with a new format, and a new Sunday time-slot, it seemed an ideal opportunity to re-publish these historic interviews, which have only previously been published on paper in The 5 Times issue 16. 

...these interviews are now archived on my Medium Profile

Projects 'Archive'

I will be adding an archive to highlight a selection of projects, both past and on-going, including information and sample images that are representative of the associated works.

check out the art 

HERE

for my writing, read samples
HERE