Education
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
2021 - Editor, Lal Davies Poetry

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 Facilitator 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 International 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

Jan-Jul 17: Community Associate
National Theatre Wales; Lifted By Beauty: Adventures in Dreaming

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 Cardiff

Voluntary - Present

• Mentor Post-TATE Circuit
• Founder/Facilitator Film Team
• Mentor Castpals drama group

Recent Works

• 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
Mark Storor, Artist/Director
Contact details on request

Devinda de Silva, Head of Collaboration
National Theatre Wales
30 Castle Arcade Cardiff CF10 1BW
029 2025 3070
devindadesilva@nationaltheatrewales.org

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