“Time Out: Headspace”

Tim lives and works in Swansea, having studied in London, Norwich and Canterbury. His work is multi-media, including two-dimensional, site-responsive and DVD installations. Recent themes include cultural, economic and environmental dispossession, conflict and disenfranchisement.

Tim has exhibited internationally and won several visual arts prizes, including the Mostyn Open in 1997; the Gold Medal in Fine Art, National Eisteddfod of Wales, 2003; and the Wakelin Award, 2005. He was the only European artist short-listed for the inaugural Artes Mundi prize in 2004. His work is represented in the Arts Council Collection at Hayward Gallery, London; National Museum Wales, Cardiff; Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea; National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth; and the Contemporary Arts Society. A book about his work, Process, was published by Seren in 2003. As well as his own practice, Tim is also engaged in curating.

The Creative Wales Award will allow Tim a period away from lecturing to experiment more, exploring new ideas and directions, and producing new work. He is intrigued by the relationship between everyday actions or exchanges, and the poetic and political understanding of these within a visual language - artisanal activities, for example, which often by their nature, have a repetitive motion but in their movements and gestures have a fascinating and moving artistic potential.

Tim also intends to develop a new curatorial venture in gallery and non-gallery spaces, collaborating with young and emerging artists. These ventures will focus on humanity’s relationship with the natural or built environment – a strong impulse for Tim’s work - and provide another platform for bringing these artists’ work to a wider audience