Trans-mutation features the work of artist / maker Dave Young
Since 1995 Dave Young has been gently tweaking the knobs of reality, trans-muting found, used, discarded and recycled materials into strange and unexpected new forms. He has worked as a sculptor, animator and film-maker, junk alchemist, blacksmith, metalworker, pyro-technician, set-builder, puppeteer and workshop leader.
Dave works closely and collaboratively with many other artists, dreamers, makers, musicians, performers and like-minded reprobates.
In 2008 with Tim Hill he co-founded Rag and Bone to explore processional traditions, tell stories, build giants, great beasts and dream machines and create elemental performances.
Since December 2008 he has formed a close relationship with Macnas in Galway, Ireland, working with Artistic Director Noeline Kavanagh and her team to develop new styles of work for street theatre, procession and outdoor performance.
Dave has also collaborated with fire and pyrotechnic specialists pa-BOOM, working closely with them to create projects such as Hot Heads.
He has worked with pioneering celebratory arts company Welfare State International and many other arts companies and organisations including Liverpool Lantern Company; Walk the Plank; Oxford Contemporary Music; Newbury Corn Exchange, Cirque Bijou and pa-Boom.
He is based in West Yorkshire, UK.