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Anatomical Epiphanies: making space to grow conversations
Reflective account of visual facilitation at University of Namibia Faculty of Health Sciences, July 2022.
For images see also: https://www.chrisglynn.net/#/internationalhealth/
Surrealism in Wales and Romania
Parry & Glynn performed at the opening of an exhibition of surrealist works at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay on Nov 30th. The show featured publications by its curator David Greenslade, paintings by George Ostafi and James Welson and collages by CSAD’s head of Fine Art, James Green.
I accompanied Richard in an adaptation of Meirion Williams’ song ‘Aros Mae’r Mynyddoedd Mawr’ and performed selected ‘Anteludes’ composed in 2018-19. The event was introduced by Ogmore AM Huw Irranca-Davies and included a moving Toaca in memory of George Ostafi who died earlier in the year.
The show continues till 6 Dec 2019.
Dwelling in drawing: conference notes
Illustrated lecture notes from the Royal Geographical Society’s annual conference at Cardiff University, 31 August; two sessions on ‘Landscape, Being and Time’, convened by Prof Owain Jones (Bath Spa University) and Dr. Daniel Keech (University of Gloucestershire).
Adding tone to line drawings made on site.
Colleague and creative collaborator Richard Parry (Coleridge in Wales), was invited to give a paper with Dr. Russell Re Manning (Bath Spa) on Landscapes of Faith. Papers wove around Heidegger’s concept of dwelling, and the idea of human entanglement - with fields, other species, minerals, narratives and networks - which prompted some bucolic pen and ink meandering and 'agriscopic' doodles.
The sessions offered many unfamiliar threads to follow, especially on music and sound. Freya Zinovieff (Simon Fraser) presented a confluence of natural and mechanical sounds, while Jenny Hall (York St.John) explored the 'absolute auterity' provided by mountain silence. Richard Parry’s singing Aros Mae’r Mynyddoedd Mawr (Ceiriog/Meirion Williams) and reading of a John Berger meditation on the power of song (Confabulations, 2016) folded the discussion into other ways of dwelling in landscape and sound.
The conference attracted a record number of delegates to Cardiff University, covering many territories and -scapes. I look forward to sketching out further conversational structures between Human Geography and Illustration research/practice.
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New Blog
A new space charting independent projects from September 2018 running alongside my part-time role as Senior Lecturer in Illustration at Cardiff School of Art & Design. This blog will include new drawings, publications, facilitation, performance and composition work. See also: Parry & Glynn (www.parryandglynn.net) for antemasque and carnival work.
