Here are some more images from our recent initial devising process on the performance “Skin Deep”. You can see the performance at Riverfront Arts Centre, Newport on 5th and 6th June 2009 – book early, we are in the small studio and tickets are limited!

We are weaving the work we created in“Vesica Piscis” with new material collected during my Selkie project, “Shedding Skins” to create “Skin Deep”

I am working with technologies to develop a new method of performance drawing. Early experiments are exciting and the integration of the arts is now more possible than ever before. I am primarily a “drawer” and am still committed to the hand drawn image, however, introducing a projection tool is altering and influencing the way I draw. I am intrigued to see how this develops and am considering the possibilities for how we may teach drawing in the future. I will be delivering a masterclass to young and gifted artists soon where I will try out some new ideas.

In addition the dancers are experimenting with how markmaking alters their movements and choreography. We are looking forward to the next phase when Pedro Carneiro joins us. He will be developing a sound scape with new interactive sound technologies. This will have another impact on the work.

The highlights of my education work in 2008/9 include:

• Making four Fairytale books with Foundation Phase children in the Swansea area. The books tell the stories entirely in images and are designed to encourage oracy. The work was exhibited at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea in October 2008. Another project is planned for June/July 2009.

• A residency on Tory Island (Donegal) in July 2008, in connection with my Selkie project. I worked with a group of young people (aged 6 – 28) from the island and we made an exhibition for the festival. The group threw themselves into the project and we made drawings on the rocks at the harbour and at Green Port (where the seals are). We then developed the work into Photoshop montages. The final exhibition had digital prints of the work made outside, prints of the montages and a DVD playing with the soundtrack made up of some of the children singing in Gaelic. Also, a senior member of the community told a native Tory Selkie story, again in Gaelic.