Carolyn Savidge

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An idyllic 1950s childhood observing and exploring the natural world on her grandparent’s Somerset farm still influences the creative output of artist, filmmaker, choreographer, writer, performer, lecturer, teacher & facilitator Carolyn Savidge.

 

Her mixed-media work explores perennial themes of love and loss, combining the serendipity of found objects in nature with the reality of our lived experience to present an absorbing, distinctive and closely observed artistic vision.

 

Carolyn challenges and redefines healing, memory and mental health, holistically considering physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing through her art practice.

 

In a diverse 50-year freelance career, Carolyn has also lived, worked, taught and performed in Africa, the Caribbean, India, Sri Lanka and the USA. She was a lecturer in contemporary dance at Brighton University, Laban Centre at Goldsmiths, University of London and The Place, London, and performed with the Barbados Dance Theatre Company for three years before founding the Carolyn Savidge Dance Company.

 

Carolyn has been a director, teacher and facilitator in primary and secondary schools, sixth-form colleges, academies and universities at home and abroad, including the American School in Lusaka, Zambia (where she also ran her own dance studio), and was visiting dance director for the annual International Festival of Dance, Music, Speech and Drama in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

 

As a performance artist she researched the cathartic transformative effects that come about through the simple act of taking unstructured walks in the landscape, which led to an appearance on BBC in Claire Balding on Ramblings: Artists’ Ways and still influences her artistic vision.

 

Based in Newlyn, Carolyn Savidge has directed Dance-for-Camera films, and hosts exhibitions and workshops at arts festivals, galleries and events throughout south-west England. www.carolynsavidgeartist.co.uk