Finding a voice. Finding a starting point.
Some creative prompts helped me get started with a storytelling, autobiographical project.
Ask your group to bring...
A photo of you when you were little
A photo of you/your friends/family playing outside/on a day trip/family outing
A favourite object that has a story behind it
Do you collect anything?
A poem/words that resonate with you/why?
A picture of your house/or your neighbour's house/your street
What's on your wall above the fireplace/in the kitchen/in the lounge?
A photo of a pattern/fabric in your house
Something from your country
Something from your childhood
A significant life event – what was it?
- Full Colour Maindee Festival
- Invited artist - Cass Arts
- A fun day with G4S staff who do a very important job - June 2024
- Flower Powers - Solo Exhibition, May 2024
- Residency - Creative Curations with Tin Shed Theatre Co.
- Words Matter - This Ends Now at Oriel 57, Newport: March 2024
- Bright pigments - paints I love
- I feel respected here and I feel human
- Indirect Direct Access, Swansea University and GS Artists: A collaboration with artist Rufus Mufasa
- MariMar - a collaboration
- New Starts Prison Arts
- Drawing Workshop at St Fagan's
- Swynwraig with Rufus Mufasa
- Drawing with a stick
- Creative Roots Exhibition at The Riverfront Theatre and Arts, 2023
- Sketchbook process - Watercolour painting
- The Dutch Master Flower Paintings at The National Gallery
- Without Borders - a global, group exhibition
- Inspiration for making painted books
- Landmarks, a collaboration with Rufus Mufasa in 2018
- Panel Discussion at BBC Radio Cymru
- Where my obsession with Ultramarine blue comes from
- Colour Inspiration: The Storyteller
- Image transfer Experiments
- Finding a voice. Finding a starting point.
- Maindee Stories
- Some inspiration for 'Maindee Stories' - Grayson Perry's 'The Vanity of Small Differences'
- Natasha Kerr - Inspiration for a collaborative textile art project
- Human Nature Endangered 13, Ackroyd Drive, Tower Hamlets
- Lost Connections
- Lost Connections at Barnabas Arts House
- Lost Connections at the Riverfront
- Human Nature Show, in pictures
- 30 Minute Portrait Stories – Development
- Making connections. #30MinutePortraitStories
- 30 Minute Portrait Stories- Continued
- 30 Minute Portrait Stories
- Refugees & Asylum Seekers, by guest blogger Helena Kyriakides
- Refugee Week, Newport #ThenAndNow
- Then & Now. What I think about it
- Human Nature Show, Bristol at Centrespace Gallery – July 2015
- Beneath The Surface, 2015
- E-wasteland, from Lost Connections makes the front cover of PQ Magazine
- Progress - 'Beneath the Surface'
- Beneath The Surface - Work in progress
- Work's changing...
- The Philosophy of Kintsugi
- Beneath The Surface
- Talking about life in the Creative Industries
- Making textures for paintings
- Adding the final pieces to Lost Connections triptych
- Developing the idea of 'Lost Connections'
- You can find inspiration in Everything - (And if you can't, look again) – Paul Smith
- Marrakech colour