This year the 2 towers at Porth -y-Felin gate were filled by work from two Helfa Gelf artists. Wendy Dawson’s Ice lens was exhibited in the smaller of the towers, Alan Whitfield’ digital piece in the larger tower. Here are some pictures of the work if you didn’t manage to catch them at the festival..
Conwy is full of heavy duty machinery, projectors, security guards, lots of people in Hi-Viz jackets getting the town ready. Did I mention that 4 of the worlds largest Display Lasers have arrived and will be turned on at 7.00pm tomorrow night, make sure you get to town at 6.30 to see the other projections […]
I first became interested in animation while working towards my BA in Architecture at the University of Cambridge. Working heavily with 3D modelling I designed buildings which were intended to be experienced as cinematic sequences and exhibited strong use of narrative structure in their layout. Following my BA I worked as a volunteer artist on […]
Darren Banks (UK) incorporates found and made film footage into sculpture and installation to explore ideas about domesticity, defunct technologies, cinema and the unknown. The work questions the perception of sculpture in relation to objects, film and memory. Banks is interested in the possibility of film as sculpture. Within his practice sculpture is not just […]
“I originally trained as a sculptor but for many years my work has been preoccupied with the moving image. Cinematic language allows me to explore and create places by piecing and layering together footage of journeys through spaces. I tend of focus on a place, landmark or idea and work with it over a long […]
