Education
2019-21 Manchester Metropolitan University
MA Creative Writing - Poetry: Distinction
1986-88 Slade School of Art
University College London, England
Post-Graduate, Mixed Media
1982-86 Gray's School of Art
Aberdeen, Scotland
BA (Hons) Fine Art: 2:1
Selected Recent Experience
Spring 2024
Installation of film poem/pamphlet Lore
Courtesy of Dietl, New York City
2023
TATE 2014-19
2017 - 2018
National Theatre Wales 2013-2017
TEAM Volunteer/Key Member 2009-18
Recent Works
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT
2011-12 Scala Cinema & Arts Centre
2009-2011 Scala Voluntary Roles
2011-2012 Commissions
Denbighshire’s Voluntary Services Council & County Council
2005 Founder Jan Miller Photography
Selected Previous Employment
Selected Exhibitions: Jan Kerr 1987-91
Permanent Collections
Artist's Statement
Using text, image and sound I explore landscape, language, gender and class.
Selected CPD
1991-6
Referees
Carol Ann Duffy DBE
Professor of Contemporary Poetry & Creative Director
Manchester Writing School
Manchester Metropolitan University
writingschool@mmu.ac.uk
Professor Andrew McMillan BA MA. FRSL
Poet & Senior Lecturer
Manchester Metropolitan University
a.mcmillan@mmu.ac.uk
Mark Storor, Artist/Director
Contact details on request
Dr Karen Heald Artist/Lecturer/Mentor
07899 948 996 info@karenheald.co.uk
2019-21 Manchester Metropolitan University
MA Creative Writing - Poetry: Distinction
1986-88 Slade School of Art
University College London, England
Post-Graduate, Mixed Media
1982-86 Gray's School of Art
Aberdeen, Scotland
BA (Hons) Fine Art: 2:1
Selected Recent Experience
Spring 2024
Installation of film poem/pamphlet Lore
Courtesy of Dietl, New York City
2023
- Longlisted Edwin Morgan Second Life Awards
- Reader, International Women’s Day North Wales Women’s Centre
- Editorial Before the Rainbow… and After & The Art of Here by Mark Storor
- Reader, Federation of Writers Scotland
- Poetry Editor Stories We Cannot Tell
- Visiting Lecturer, MA Art Practice Glyndwr University, Wales
- Shortlisted Bridport Poetry Prize
TATE 2014-19
- Oct 17 - Apr 19 Circuit Test, Risk Change Commissioned Report
- Mar 17 Facilitator Nottingham Contemporary Test Risk Change Conference
- Nov 16 Space MOSTYN Festival of Creative Disobedience : Chaos Room
- Mar 16 Speaker Jumping the Barrier engage Cymru Natural History Museum
- 2014-16 Lead Artist/Project Manager MOSTYN Digital Project
- Nov 15 Artist &: On Collaboration
- Nov 14 Film Facilitator Gallery 1
2017 - 2018
- HeArt of Glass : Army of Beauty Baa Baa Baric & Suicide Chronicle 1 Documentation
- Curator/Fundraiser International Women’s Day North Wales Women’s Centre
- Facilitator Castpals drama group, supported by National Theatre Wales’ TEAM
National Theatre Wales 2013-2017
- 2017 Community Associate
Lifted By Beauty: Adventures in Dreaming - 2014 Creative Assistant Big Democracy Project
- 2013/14 Community Engagement Assoc.
TEAM Volunteer/Key Member 2009-18
- 2017/18 TEAM Artist Facilitator
- 2015 Facilitator Youth Arts Network Cymru
- 2014 TEAM Evaluator
- 2012 Key member TEAM Panel
- 2010 TEAM volunteer The Beach
- 2009 Founder Film Team
Recent Works
- 2021-22 Lore: MA Poetry Pamphlet
- 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 #6 installation LLAWN #02
- 2013 National Theatre Wales Residency WalesLab 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
- 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 Queen Mary & Westfield, University of London
- 1990-91 Administrator, Sensible Footwear Theatre Company
- 1986-90 Administrator, Chelsea Hospital for Women/Queen Charlotte's London
- 1989-90 Install Team, 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 University
- 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 Arts Council Wales
- 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
Carol Ann Duffy DBE
Professor of Contemporary Poetry & Creative Director
Manchester Writing School
Manchester Metropolitan University
writingschool@mmu.ac.uk
Professor Andrew McMillan BA MA. FRSL
Poet & Senior Lecturer
Manchester Metropolitan University
a.mcmillan@mmu.ac.uk
Mark Storor, Artist/Director
Contact details on request
Dr Karen Heald Artist/Lecturer/Mentor
07899 948 996 info@karenheald.co.uk