Education
2019-21 Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester, England
MA Creative Writing - Poetry: Distinction

1986-88 Slade School of Art
University College London
Post-Graduate, Mixed Media

1982-86 Gray's School of Art
Aberdeen, Scotland
BA (Hons) Fine Art: 2:1

Recent Experience

Dec 21 - Contributor, Federation of Writers (Scotland)

Jul 21 - Poetry Editor, Lal Davies

Apr 21 - Lecture, MA Art Practice, Glyndwr University

Shortlisted 2018 Bridport Poetry Prize

TATE 2014-19

• Apr 19 TATE Circuit Test, Risk Change publication
• Oct 17 TATE Circuit Test Risk Change Commissioned Report
• Mar 17 Facilitator Test Risk Change Conf. Nottingham Contemporary
• Nov 16 Space/MOSTYN’s Festival of Creative Disobedience : Chaos Room
• 2014-16 Lead Artist/Project Manager MOSTYN Digital Project
• TATE Circuit blog
• Nov 15 Artist & On Collaboration
• Nov 14 Film Facilitator Gallery 1

Dec 18 HeArt of Glass Suicide Chronicles Documentation

Mar 18 Curator/Fundraiser Int. Women’s Day North Wales Women’s Centre
Castpals drama group, launched, supported by National Theatre Wales’ TEAM

Sept 17 HeArt of Glass Army of Beauty Baa Baa Baric

National Theatre Wales

• 2017 Community Associate
  National Theatre Wales Lifted By Beauty: Adventures in Dreaming
• 2014 Creative Assistant Big Democracy Project
• 2013/14 Community Engagement Associate

TEAM Volunteer/Key Member 2009-18

• 2017/18 TEAM Artist Facilitator North Wales Women’s Centre
• 2015 Facilitator Film Team/Youth Arts Network Cymru
• 2014 TEAM Evaluator
• 2012 Key member TEAM Panel
• 2010 TEAM volunteer The Beach
• 2009 Founder Film Team

Mar 16: Speaker Jumping the Barrier, engage Cymru Natural History Museum

Recent Works

• 2021 Lore: MA Poetry Collection
• 2019 Chalk-Filled Skies: poem
• 2018 Not Land: poem
• 2017 Eclipse: large format C-type
• 2015 People are Trash/You Talk, I Listen with Peter Slania: sound
• 2014 TATE Circuit Gallery 1: Portraits for Beddwyr Williams’ Glitch Wallpaper

• 2013 TATE Circuit/MOSTYN Commission l: Bathing Machine No.6 installation LLAWN #02
• 2013 National Theatre Wales WalesLab Residency, Anglesey
• 2011 Performing Pixels film poem

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT

• 2012 Cultural Olympiad: Creative Animateur, Mark Kermode's Hansel of Film Welsh community engagement & tour
• Scala Cinema & Arts Centre Facilitator Panasonic Film Nation
• Co-ordinator Caw & Cyster Cauldrons Men of Harlech.

2011-12 Scala Cinema & Arts Centre

• Scala Education Consultant
• Youth Education Co-ordinator
• Development Co-ordinator
• Artistic Director 2011 Youth Arts Film Festival
• Film Literacy Residency

2009-2011 Scala Voluntary Roles

• Curator Peer-Led Summer School
• Facilitator: Scala's broadcast of BBC Radio 4's Film Programme
• Founder Young Film/Film Team
• Facilitator/Commissioning Panel bloc's 'Performing Pixels'
• Curator, Oriel Scala IWD
• Co-founder/Development Officer Oriel Scala Artists' Co-Operative
• Film Cymru “We've done Enigma Miss, move on!” Paper on teaching film in the classroom

2011-2012 Commissions Denbighshire’s Voluntary Services Council & County Council

• The Hoodie animation on youth bullying/stereotyping
• See How Far Can We Go! directed by under-represented girls
• Intergenerational Community Conference documentary.

2005 Founder Jan Miller Photography

Selected Previous Employment

• 2002-05 ChildLine Cymru Wales
• 2001 Lecturer, Llandrillo College
• 1998-2000 Children born
• 1993-98 Research Co-ordinator QMW University of London
• 1990-91 Administrator, Sensible Footwear Theatre Company
• 1986-90 Chelsea Hospital for Women/Queen Charlotte's London
• 1989-90 Camerawork, London

Selected Exhibitions: Jan Kerr 1987-91

• Art in General New York
• BBC/Arts Council 1 Minute TV
• Museum of Modern Art Oxford Signs of the Times: sound-work
• Cambridge Darkroom From Moment to Moment: commission
• Edinburgh Fringe Film Festival A Million Hours of Potato Time
• Museum of Modern Art Oxford Open Self-Portrait as a Number
• 32nd London Film Festival National Film Theatre England
• London Film-Makers Co-Op Slade Post-Graduate Show : Multi-projection/sound installation
• Glasgow International Film Festival Volition: film installation
• Riverside Studios London Bruce McLean's Maginot Line
• South London Gallery Spectrum Photography Open
• Whitechapel East End Open Studios SPACE Studios London
• AVE Audio Visual Festival Arnheim, Holland sound-work

​Permanent Collections

• Tate Archives
• The Women's Sound Archive​

Artist's Statement
Using text, image and sound I explore landscape, language, gender and class.

Selected CPD

• 2018 RHS Schools Campaign
• 2014-17 Arts Awards Gold, Silver Bronze, Arts Council Wales

• 2015 Artist Facilitator, Bangor
• 2014 Art Works - PROTECT Safeguarding in the Arts
• 2014 National Theatre Wales Evaluation
• 2013 Artist as Learner Engage Cymru/MOSTYN supported by National Theatre Wales’ TEAM
• 2013 Engage Conference Extraordinary Change for ACW
• 2012 National Theatre Wales Leadership & Participation 1 & 2
• 2012 FILMCLUB for schools
• 2006 Foundation in Digital Media University of Wales
• 2005/9 Denbighshire C.C. Parent Governor training
• 2004 ChildLine in Partnerships with Schools (C.H.I.P.S.)
• 2003 RNIB/ChildLine Deaf Aware
• 2000/2 Llandrillo College Wales Women into Business

1991-6

• Channel 4/ London Film & Video Development Agency (LFVDA): Video Tape Editor
• Birkbeck College London: Screenwriting, Media 100 digital editing, Video Engineering
• Channel 4, Carlton TV, LFVDA Foundation in Video & Television
• Greater London Arts Board Arts Management

Referees
Andrew McMillan, Poet
Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University
Contact details on request

Mark Storor, Artist/Director
Contact details on request

Dr Karen Heald Lecturer/Mentor
07899 948 996 info@karenheald.co.uk