THE TEAM

Claire Ingleheart

WildWorks Artist

Clair is a member of the WildWorks team, working as an artist for several years. On recent projects Clair has worked as Musical Director for The Passion and BABEL. For this role she has to have the musical knowledge for the piece. Furthermore within WildWorks performances, the Musical Director has to be able to link in music with the site and the stories that are produced from the communities to create music and songs that enhance the piece, especially the sensory elements of the piece. When working with sensory theatre the music and sound become hugely important to enhance the piece as multi-instrumentalist, Claire can work as a composer and music specialist to be able to communicate with all members of the community of all abilities, also it breaks down the barrios of language through music, so as a Musical Director, Clair has to be able to understand the emotions and stories that can be created through the music. She is also a training facilitator in using music to develop language, communication and interaction for children with Autism. This allows her to be able to work specifically with certain members of the community and to understand the importance of communication through music. 

For WILDWORKS:
2012 | BABEL | Caledonian Park, London 
2011 | The Passion | Port Talbot
2009 | The Beautiful Journey | North East | on the banks of the river Tyne, Wallsend 
2009 | The Beautiful Journey | South West | Devonport Royal Navy Dockyard 
2007 | Souterrain | Dolcoath, Cornwall

 

Sue Hill

Associate Director

Sue is an Associate Director of WILDWORKS, who was born and educated in Cornwall. Through out her life she has worked with many different companies, this is really useful as it means that she can bring all of her experience that she has gained into this role and into the company as whole. From 2000 until 2006 she was Artistic Director for the Eden Project, developing their innovative interpretation strategy, commissioning artists, writers and performers to illuminate Eden’s ideas and messages. With her brother Pete Hill she has made many large-scale carnival images and earth sculptures, including the iconic Mudmaid in the Lost Gardens of Heligan. This experience, working with the Eden Project, gives her contacts and knowledge of those in the creative industry and one that she worked well with. Also this project allowed her to get used to working in unconventional theatrical places to create a different and engaging performance. On to of this is gives her experience in working with the community in new and exciting places witch she can bring to her work with WILDWORKS.
She has traveled widely through her work, with performances, commissions and seminars in Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Brazil, Russia, Georgia, Canada, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Ireland, Malta, France, Kosovo, South Africa, India, Egypt, U.S.A. and China. As WILDWORKS is an international theatre company her experience of travelling gives her knowledge that others may not have, making her have wider understanding of places and the confidence to get involved in those countries. It could also have given her knowledge in how to create a performances or art without the need of one language and that all audiences can connect to and understand.

 

As a member of the Core Creative Team she has worked in close collaboration with Bill Mitchell as a designer, part of the community team, a performer and also as a tutor on the summer schools. Her special area of interest is the role of culture and art in building and sustaining communities. Her participation with the community in WILDWORKS show that she needs to have good, strong communication skills and the ability to be a facilitator and have an understanding of the community and people within it. Also her ability to change roles shows the diversity of the part she plays within the company and skills that she has.

For WILDWORKS:

2013 | The Museum of Us | Royal Cornwall Museum        

2012 | Ark-ive | Theatre Square, National Theatre, London 

2012 | BABEL | Caledonian Park, London 

2011 | The Passion | Port Talbot

2010 | Palestine Literature Festival | Palestine

2010 | Enchanted Palace | Kensington Palace London

2009 | The Beautiful Journey | North East | on the banks of the river Tyne Wallsend

 
Mercedes Kemp

Associate Director Community and Research

Mercedes Kemp was born and grew up in Southern Spain. For the past thirty years she has lived in West Cornwall. Since 2001 she has worked in close collaboration with Bill Mitchell, developing storylines and text for site specific pieces in Malta, Cyprus, France and Britain. She is a core member of WILDWORKS.

As well as the production of text and story line, her role within WILDWORKS involves creating and maintaining relationships with host communities, exploring their relationships with place and memory and adapting text to fit each new location. For this role she must have to have really strong people, community and communication skills to be able to connect with and understand the communities in a sensitive and caring manner. Also she must have literary and creative skills to be able to take peoples memories and create storylines and text and to make a performance out of it.

Her method involves a kind of eclectic ethnographic research into a variety of sources: archives, libraries, cemeteries, village halls, bus stops, local historians, town gossips, snapshots, old photographs, conversations, and, above all, a close observation of the process of memory and its effect on the value that people place on their environments. For this role she must have a great amount of people skills to be able to connect with the communities that she is researching and working with to be able to connect with them and for them to be able to feel comfortable opening up to her. Also she must be really good at researching and looking into communities and history to be able to understand the place and the people that she is working with.

Her freelance work includes commissions for The Eden Project, The Guardian and BBC Radio 3. She worked as a writer for Kneehigh Theatre in Strange Cargo, Manel's Mango, Shop of Stories, Doubtful Island, Island of Dreams and A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings. She is a founding member of the writing and performing collective Scavel an Gow. Mercedes is Senior Lecturer in Critical Studies at University College Falmouth.