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Video extract: Shirley Cameron and Roland Miller in conversation with Heike Roms, 23 November 2006 (edited) Please wait a moment for the video to
load. Roland Miller. [Performance] fulfilled the idea
that I had, that this would be something for which I alone took
responsibility and nobody else had to say you can do it now, or
this is the time to start, or we will now come in and make an entrance
or something. I was doing that on my own. And that was really how
I foresaw working in performance art. I called it performance art
because performance art to me contained two elements which were
very important – and I still believe this is true –
one is the performance and the other element is the art. I really
thought that this was a way of bringing together the two things
that for me were very important in cultural terms and making them
work.
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Shirley Cameron & Roland MillerThu 23 Nov 2006
Shirley Cameron, a trained sculptor, and Roland Miller, who had been a core member of the influential People Show, first worked together in 1970 in the context of the famous Barry Summer School, one of the finest examples of experimental art education in Britain. Throughout the seventies they created a substantial body of work together from their base in Swansea, making simple ritual event-pieces, working with colour, perspective and found objects in a visually striking manner. Whilst continuing to create solo work and collaborate with a number
of other performance artists, Cameron and Miller are best known
for their joint practice as a couple, often exploring their mutual
roles in this partnership, and later frequently involving their
two daughters in the work.
Shirley Cameron and Roland Miller were in conversation about performance at the legendary Barry Summer School and their performance work in Wales in the 1970s. |
