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Song for the Auction Caller. Video, drawing, audio. The peer review selected artwork portrays a series of auction callers choreographed into a notated score and accompanied by a full welsh male voice choir.

'Song for the Auction Caller’ depicts three separate auction callers from Wales, developed into an arranged rhythmical video art hybrid. Each caller’s ‘pitch’ which was developed into a musical arrangement designed for a choir, later collaborated with the Flint Male voice choir,North Wales. The work developed original and progressive insights into art and social engagement. The work was highly improvised and experimental with new media processes, voiceovers and piano accompaniment.

The piece engaged musical specialists and communities. New processes for art creation developed. Work was selected for the National Eisteddfod Visual Arts Exhibition 2009, the pinnacle of the visual arts calendar in Wales.Up to 40,000 visitors during the week.The exhibition houses Wales’ leading artists, with the work selected as part of the open exhibition. The work recieved international acclaim through peer selection by artscreen, Sweden resulting in many outputs.

Items are grouped, containing the same artwork however provide multiple forums of disemination at international level. This proves the validity of the work through multiple critical cultural perspectives (International). Both critical reviews involved selection by means of origionality, progressive and ground breaking practice portraying work at the forfront of the discipline through open call.