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Growing up in a frugal farming family gets you quite used to doing everything yourself; where necessary, finding out how. This has led Alyn on a very meandering course, learning many practical, intellectual and organisational skills as and when necessary.

In the last few years, he has been exploring ways of bringing together his experience in performance, with writing, management and practical, hands-on manual labour.

Sad Santa

A seasonal special, originally created for Live Art Speed Date at Stoke Newington International Airport. Originally performed 15-17 December 2011.

A private, one-to-one grotto experience, the work centres around a short piece of storytelling, to explore various means and characteristics of social exclusion and rejection, walking the boundary between inappropriate behaviour and social prejudice.

Here, they focus on Santa's substantial age and body image, and how well cheerfulness and generosity fits in with contemporary mores of surface seriousness and self-interest. Is Santa the ultimate outsider for our times?

May contain scenes of generosity and giving. And food.

The Binman of Love

In an otherwise nice and homogenised public space, a grubby big guy in overalls and a hi-vis vest is wheeling a bin: incongruous, ignored or inviting, he represents an intrusion. The adventurous might seek an audience with The Binman of Love and experience an intimate, transformative journey, tickling and challenging the senses.

The Binman of Love is a semi-site-specific piece, which aims to explore the relationship between social preconceptions and private sensory responses. In basing this around rubbish, it also highlights issues of waste, disposal and rejection, extending this through the process, with nearly all elements made from found or re-used materials.

To date The Binman of Love has graced the grounds of BAC, Oubliette Arthouse and the Secret Garden Party, in association with Guerilla Science.

A little more about this at the Stolen Words website.

For more detailed commissioning or production information, please get in touch.

Filmmaking

After years in front of the camera, paying close attention and learning about the process, an attempt to discover whether the theory could be put into practice, pulling in practical experience in photography, sound, writing and acting. Short, simple practical projects, at Stolen Pictures.

Form

Alyn has extensive experience working in sound, originating with analogue synthesizers and razorblades on tape. He also has wide-ranging experience of digital media, and in the late 1990s set up and ran South London's first public digital media centre, at The Studio in Beckenham. Although no longer a central focus for his work, Alyn continues to use digital forms as and when they suit a particular project.

Currently, his interests lie more in the area of immediacy and engagement. In particular this has involved moving away from that which can be digitised and rapidly disseminated, and toward forms that resist digitisation, including touch, smell and interpersonal nuance.

Creative project management, direction and facilitation

Essentially, creating a supportive space in which a team can do good work, while taking care of numbers telephonic, financial and chronological. Drawing on a wide-ranging experience of creative practices, and a background in education and public sector management (including teaching project management), Alyn is increasingly sharing this experience to help producers and artists realise creative projects successfully.