Name: Tamsin Green, Scale & Substance - Artist Talk by Photofusion
Duration: 1 h 3 min 12 s
Description: Artist Tamsin Green in conversation with Dafna Talmor & Sid Motion about her first solo exhibition held at Photofusion, Brixton - Scale & Substance.

Artist Tamsin Green in conversation with Dafna Talmor & Sid Motion about her first solo exhibition held at Photofusion, Brixton - Scale & Substance.

Tamsin Green, Scale & Substance - Artist Talk

#smalltowninertia I love collaborating. It's at the heart of photography, for me. Be it with a camera and whom I am making photographs with, or, reaching out with the wider community of artists, genres, academics, reaching out, listening, engaging, making work, together. It's an act of unity and of solidarity. 

The Workers Gallery are currently home to the touring #smalltowninertia exhibition (Up until the 27th July 2019) and created several community initiatives, events to coincide with the photographs and testimony being shared. 

Local poet's created new works to be performed and I was very humbled to receive this work by clare c. potter, humbled and very, very moved, i think you will be too. 

Many, many thanks to clare, to all at the Workers gallery in Wales and to you, for listening and i hope, sharing. 

clare e. potter is a writer and performer from a South Wales mining village. She lived for ten years in the Deep South where she studied an MA in Afro-Caribbean literature and taught in a progressive school in New Orleans. 

She won the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry, and the Jim Criddle prize for celebrating the Welsh language in Literature. 

Her first poetry collection spilling histories (2006) will shortly be followed by a subsequent collection, A Certain Darkness, for which she was awarded a Literature Wales writing bursary. clare conceived of and directed the BBC It's My Shout documentary The Wall and the Mirror.

 In 2016 she received Arts Council Wales funding for a poetry and jazz collaboration to respond to the trauma of Hurricane Katrina. She has written for the Welsh National Opera in community theatre and singing projects, and has received various commissions to write poetry in collaboration with artists: a poem for the new Keir Hardie Health Park, street poetry in the pavements of Pontypridd, and washing lines in Tredegar. for example. 

clare was poet-in-residence for the Landmark Trust during the two year restoration of medieval house, Llwyn Celyn; was poet-in-residence at Moravian Academy in Pennsylvania, and for the Wales Arts Review for a month.

 clare has translated the work of the National Poet of Wales, was a Hay Festival Writer at Work for two years, and has performed at the Smithsonian Folk-Life Festival in the USA. She is currently working on a new poetry collection about craftspeople thanks to another Literature Wales bursary.  clare has been widely published in magazines, anthologies and literary journals in the UK and USA and has acted in two films. 

Her biggest passion is working in schools and on community projects with other artists

Tamsin Green, Scale & Substance - Artist Talk

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