Bobby Abate (USA) makes films and videos that fuse nostalgia, psychodrama, and spectacle with a distinctly modern resonance. His recent work, the occult themed Love Rose (2010) and Gossip (2011) premiered at the New York Film Festival and his 1960′s era supernatural drama The Evil Eyes (2011) won \aut\FILM Award for Best LGBT Film at […]
Wendy is a sculptor and digital artist living in North Wales, inspired by the human urge to invent, time and our fascination with the world around us. Her piece ‘Obscura’ is a lens made from ice, and as a Camera Obscura captures the world for a moment so does the ice lens, continually changing and […]
Alys Hughes and Elly Strigner are North Wales artists, local to the area of Conwy, working in dance / physical performance and animation / moving image respectively. Following on from last year’s performance at Blinc, ‘Hiraeth’, a piece about longing, which combined live dance, soundscape, music, and animation, this year they will collaborate again to […]
Alan Whitfield is a Digital Artist and Poet. His work is engrained in his Northern working class upbringing. His works responds to social commentary and documentation of surroundings. Alan returns to Blinc for a third year in his evolution as a local digital Artist. This years work interrogates the spaces that are around us in […]
Menna Elfyn has published thirteen collections of poetry, children’s novels, libretti for UK and US composers as well as plays for television and radio. Her most recent collection in Welsh is Merch Perygl from Gomer Press in 2011 and her bilingual volume Murmur was published by Bloodaxe Books, in autumn 2012. This volume was selected […]
Dymphna is a performer/film maker and writer based in Conwy Reference to time, place, and motion and the unconscious shards of history that influence the way we respond to a certain place are recurring themes in her work Central to her practice is the transformative quality of time and the consequential effects of time on […]