Eric Maddern

Eric Maddern was born in 1950 in Whyalla, South Australia, where his father was working in the iron mines. The family came to Britain, where his mother died from polio when he was 6. After graduating in social psychology he made a 10-year journey around the world culminating in community arts work with the Aborigines in Central Australia.

Since 1986 he has lived on a 5-acre site in Snowdonia on which he has built a Celtic roundhouse and has pioneered storytelling at historic sites, men's rites of passage and telling the Universe Story.