'Mapio Madoc Creadigol' (2014) Oriel Wrecsam. Karen Heald, Francesca Simmons, Ant Dickinson, Angela Davies. ACW funded.

Mapio Madoc Creadigol | Creatively Mapping Madoc was an underwater project at Plas Madoc Leisure Centre, Wrexham (2014). Collaborating with three other artists, violinist and saw player Francesca Simmons, interdisciplinary artist Angela Davies and sound artist Ant Dickinson, we worked with the local community at Plas Madoc Leisure Centre on an underwater art residency. The project offered us the opportunity to collaboratively explore an experimental approach to recording a physical place (the Leisure Centre) and a desire to involve the Centre’s users to explore new ways of recording both images and sound in the making of experimental underwater films. It was extremely heartening that a number of the Centre’s user groups responded positively to the request to get involved. The project was commissioned by Oriel Wrecsam, Contemporary Art Gallery, Arts Council Wales and Betsi Cadawaldr University Health Board (BCU HB).