I have used images to connect people, educate, develop ideas, tell stories and enliven conversations, whether live, on screen or on the page. I help others to create conversational spaces which promote aesthetic and civil discourse, and I have mentored people at different stages of their careers. Recent project themes range from hospital design and eco-literacy to overcoming creative blocks through visual narrative. With poet Luca Paci I created the touring Self Help Show and accompanying book Self Help I(s)land (2022, Hadron Press).
I am now focusing on performance.
Photo: David Sinden
Bio:
After training as a music and drama teacher at Goldsmiths College, I worked in arts education across secondary, FE, HE, and public arts, and as a freelance animation designer and illustrator. I set up the BA Illustration at Cardiff School of Art and Design in 2007, working as Senior Lecturer till 2020. I returned to freelancing in January 2021 to draw, perform and make new work.
Recent Clients and Partners:
Cambridge Children’s Hospital and Cancer Research Hospital
Cardiff & Vale NHS Trust
Cardiff University School of Medicine / Phoenix Project
Cardiff University School of History, Archaeology and Religion
Clwstwr/Cardiff Animation Festival
Coleridge in Wales Ltd.
The Godown, Kuala Lumpur / Ivor Davies
Gothenburg Opera, Sweden
Fiona Macbeth/An Inside Story
Luca Paci: Hadron Press & Self Help Show
Mothers of Africa/Ministry of Health, Zambia
Music and Theatre for All, London
Omidaze Productions
Saltbox Training and Events, Somerset
Turner House Gallery, Glamorgan
Unbound, Oxford
University of Bristol / FLiNT.org.uk / Future Generations Commissioner for Wales
University of Namibia (UNAM)
W11 Youth Opera, London
Roles
Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Medicine, Cardiff University, 2021-23;
Co-founder of Hadron Press, launched May 2022;
Co-founder of the Illustration Research network 2010;
Associate Editor, Journal of Illustration (Intellect) 2013-20
All images on this site Copyright © Chris Glynn except where otherwise indicated.