Graphic Artist and Photographer
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After gaining his BA (Hons) in Graphic Design at the University of Wales College Newport, Glyn opted to enroll on the one-year full time MA in Fine Art at Cardiff School of Art and Design to expand and develop his practice that involves the use of photography and digital image manipulation. His earlier work incorporated elements of collage and photomontage but over the ensuing months of the MA course he discovered that the use of repetition and pattern was becoming more and more apparent in his compositions.
Glyn’s work relates to themes concerning oppression, authority, conformity and order. After experimenting with and constructing various pattern formations he has come to regard pattern as an appropriate visual device to use in correlation to these themes because the elements that constitute the design of a pattern have to ‘conform’ to the greater scheme of the whole design. Pattern itself is authoritative. Also, based upon the principle of decorative design, patterns should reflect the sentiments of the age in which they are created. His latest images and patterns have been produced onto a series of mirror tiles. Each address issues and themes relating to conspiracy theories, the globalist agenda of the New World Order, and the ultimate panoptic control of contemporary society achieved though endemic surveillance.