Residency June 2021
"During my visit, after getting the opportunity to provide a body percussion workshop to a local group of invited young people, I was inspired to create what I term my Body Percussion Diaries."
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Residency January 2020
"Then, I was in the river, moving into the strong current. I felt how centered I needed to be so that I was not swept away. It was an embodied metaphor of my current situation for me in a few ways."
Afon Residency September 2019
"I didn’t realise how much I needed the quiet gentle wild solitude to restore my creative energy! The community were so open to participating in swimming with me, taking me to their special hidden swimming spots and sharing their stories whilst I photographed them and the water."
Residency March 2018
"I loved the opportunity to view Four Solos in the Wilds in the cottage at 2 Penrhiw and then take part in the workshop with Shropshire Inclusive Dance in the village hall afterwards. There was a careful informality to the whole event that opened me up to experiencing what was on offer."
Residency January 2018
"I dance through an assemblage of scores occupying the questions I have about life- including death, humanity… love, and the polarities of survival."
Residency January 2019
"My interest in sustaining chimed with Maynard’s own enquires and working in such close proximity strengthened this research and gave me the confidence to work in a way that counters the seemingly normal capitalist drive to produce."
Residency February 2017
"Mostly I’m thinking about what it can mean to be with someone. To giving attention to each particular process with a person and seeing where it goes. Taking proper time to listen ..."
Residency June 2014
"The power of this residency was the time and space that it allowed me to consider specific ideas but also my practice more broadly. I learned a lot in a short space of time. It was a special time that I will cherish for a very long time. "
Residency March 2015
"Thresholds that appear in one’s artistic practice can often go unnoticed, or, can be scurried over by the demands of making or producing. The time at 2 Penrhiw allowed time to get to know not knowing again. A time to allow the emergence of a particular voice that comes from having plentiful space."
Residency September 2015
"The NEST is a site where refuge can be taken from the wilderness in its various forms. It is also a site to take off from and move back into the wider world. Life relies upon the nest’s own abandonment."
Residency October 2013
"the oblique life is very intimate. I shall say no more about this intimacy so as not to harm thinking-feeling with dry words. To leave the obliqueness in its own uninhabited independence."
