Penny Hallas
I am a multidisciplinary artist interested in the way different systems (agricultural, industrial, ecological, artistic) come into being, collide and fall apart under pressure of natural, psychological or more socially determined forces.
Living and working in the Black Mountains, Wales. I spend a lot of time walking, alone and with others: paying attention to and amplifying small rural encounters: combining and intermingling narratives as a way of extending conversations about value, in historical terms and in future action.
I am particularly excited by co-produced live-art experiences and welcome the disturbance, challenge and enrichment of multiple perspectives. Collaborative approaches are integral to my practice, whether with artists, audiences, performers, musicians, poets, curators. Theoretical underpinnings include: art historical interrogations of landscape: art psychotherapy/systemic psychotherapy frameworks: archive material, poetry, myth and ritual.