Artists Information

Robin Boult

Robin Boult, sound Artist, is our Artist of the Day today. UK based guitar player & session musician, Robin returns to blinc to create the audio accompaniment to Chris Bird and Viv Rickman Poole’s projection piece.

Alys Hughes and Elly Strigner

Alys Hughes and Elly Strigner have collaborated to create a performance that explores the Welsh sentiment of ‘Hiraeth,’ which has no direct English translation, but is close to ‘yearning’ or ‘longing.’  The project communicates the deep emotional complexity that people feel in relation to this aspect of Welsh culture. The piece will combine live dance […]

Dymphna D’Arcy

Dymphna is our blinc Artist of the Day. She works in the arena of dance, theatre, video and moving image, exploring notions and concepts concerning time, place and identity.  She examines ideas of identity and identity politics and concepts associated with topography and place. Working with video and moving image enables her to examine the concept […]

Helen Booth

Helen Booth is the blinc Artist of the Day today. Her work will be both projected on the Castle and also be exhibited as an installation inside one of the Conwy Castle Towers. Both pieces are concerned primarily with the ideas of String Theory. A fundamental idea in Physics, that the world is made up […]

Alan Whitfield

Alan Whitfield is our Artist of the day today.Last year he created the poetic verse as part of his projection with Photernative. This year he wanted to create a series of semi autobiographical poems about someone developing a love for the walls inside Conwy. The viewer is encouraged to engage with a series of light […]

Jessica Lloyd Jones

Jessica Lloyd Jones is our Artist in focus today. She visited Bletchley Park, the home of the British Code Breakers in WW2, and along with Ant Dickinson, created and recorded images and sounds from the Enigma Machine. ‘Aura’ explores the development of the electromechanical machine to the modern age of computer technology through the creative use […]