"Il grew up around Llandrindod Wells in Powys. I trained at Ruskin School of Art in Oxford, and in 2004 graduated from Wimbledon School of Arts with Masters in Fine Art.

In 2004 I won an AHRB award to study at Wimbledon and work with installation, film and mixed media arts. I am interested in working with ideas of story telling, self-portraiture and identity.

I have worked in the film industry and publishing. My films are influenced by the screenwriting narrative myths of film noir.

I am so happy to be on this Artist-in-Residence for a year at The National Library of Wales 2008. This is not the first project my family has had to do with the Library: my great uncle, Dr E A Lewis, was the first professor of Welsh History at Aberystwyth and was very supportive of the Library in the early 20th century; so I plan to look up his works first.

I have shown films and exhibited throughout the UK as well as in South Africa, Sweden and Portugal.

I was voted the most promising young filmmaker at The Swansea Bay Film Festival and recently exhibited Art-in-Residence at The National Waterfront Museum.

The resulting work from this project was shown at the 2006 National Eisteddfod in Felindre, near Swansea.

This residency involved a commission for a sound piece with the Welsh Swansea-based folk band SILD.

I have also exhibited at The Residence Gallery in London, and commissioned to do 'VAST-FORWARD by 1646' an artists' initiative/project-space in the centre of The Hague, The Netherlands.

I believe it is important to meet and be affected by people and their lives, as well as work through collaboration and being involved in residencies, at institutions like The national Library, so that the libraries collection fuels new art, and new audiences, as well as influencing the artist's work further along her career.

I enjoy working with other artists and groups to make work. It can make a project reach a wider audience and you find so much out about how you produce art and contribute to the cultural community as a whole.

For the past 2 years I have also worked on social projects at schools and with young people, exploring ideas of art and art practise. I am really looking forward to putting all my experience into practise and learning about a new collection.

On this residency I hope to look into archives and bring lesser known works and undiscovered backgrounds to light, so that the schools I am working with can not only learn about the collection here at the library in an original way but, also be inspired by ideas and works that give them an insight into techniques and art practise, as well as mediums, research and interpretation."

Over the year I am going to be working with 4 schools, from North, South and Mid Wales, (The schools this year are; North, South and E2 primary schools, Tan y Castell and Nantgaredig Primary Schools, Llanidloes High School and Ysgol Bro Ddyfi in Machynlleth."

Article written by Blue McAskill