12.08.25 Off-Grid Artist Talk: Richard Bowers 

Off-Grid Artist Talk: Richard Bowers  12 August 2025, 18:00 (Online)

Free admission 

Join multidisciplinary artist and composer Richard Bowers for an informal online talk about his work with sound, music and installation. He'll be exploring his compositional process, collaborative approach to voice, and the themes in his forthcoming exhibition The Tower of Destruction – towards 14 short operas about 14 long operas, at Turner House, Penarth (18 July – 24 August).

Blending experimental opera, moving image, cinematic and historical references, Richard will be sharing insight into his expansive multi-media practice, and the experiments and collaborations that formed the exhibition. 

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Richard Bowers is a South Wales-based maker of art installations in which musical composition is an important feature that animates otherwise inert elements. He often uses computer programming as the means of composition, where the software environment is a workshop in which he develops, tests, and renders musical materials. The environment also affords control over the manifestations of the work - algorithmic processes serve to regenerate the work such that it never repeats identically.

Richard's works have appeared at a number of venues including Chapter Arts; Outcasting 4th Wall Festival; Cardiff School of Psychology; Shift Artists’ Space; Tactile Bosch; Fringe Arts Bath.

He recently completed the installation The Tower of Destruction: 14 Short Operas About 14 Long Operas for Turner House in Penarth. This is a meta-opera exploring cultural figures and their works, set against an historical background spanning the French Revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall. The libretto is in two parts - personal reflections on the theme of opera and its histories, and epistemological evidence from writers, film makers and musicians.

Richard's ambition for 2026 is to produce an enriched version of the 14 operas as video works fronted by a live choir, to take place in cinemas with local singers.