Jym Daly
Beginning at the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery in Cork, Jym became involved in all aspects of local theatre from acting to set design. Making his first animation in super eight, he received an award from the South Bank in London. After a one man exhibition, he found hanging art on walls far too limited in terms of expression and was attracted to the world of performance art. He used all forms of media including film, sound, a goat’s head and a ladder. Forming a group which left to take on the bigger playing field of London, Jym attracted the attention of London’s avant garde scene by playing kitchen sinks along with chinese violins in nightclubs such as Camden Palace. Never feeling any one art form to be fully satisfactory, he worked in several fields, from playing with music groups like Psychic TV to acting with theatre groups such as Wet Paint whilst keeping a hand in the art world. Jym later found himself involved in the development of a new sound combining spiritual music from around the world with dance beats. Loop Guru toured for many years leaving a rich legacy of albums. Jym also created videos for the band and a cartoon which ran in a national music magazine. His eclectic artistic past now culminates in Fidget Feet aerial dance company, co founded with his wife Chantal McCormick, where music, film, dance, acting and swinging boats off cranes co-exist peacefully in one expression.