We showed the culmination of our Unlimited Commission RnD to develop an outdoor tourable version of Breathing Room at The Attenborough Arts Centre in Leicester, March ’18. Now that we’ve figured out the geometry of both an inside and outside curve, all that’s left is finesse the lighting! We’re looking to scale this up to larger tunnel commissions, and see it as ideal for urban light festivals!
My new piece ‘Atomize‘ is showing as part of MK Calling at Milton Keynes Gallery. You can see it before 27th March. A little birdy tells me somebody wants to buy it!
The Breathing Room prototype (RnD supported by Unlimited) is showing as part of the Unlimited Festival at Southbank until the end of Sunday 9th September. It’s v exciting having your work tweeted by The South Bank Centre! Here’s me looking all pleased with myself pointing to my name on the blurb (ok, half of my…
This is my project from my residency in Fljotstunga, Iceland. It comprises paper boats, floating in rural Iceland, including in an ice and lava cave. It’s about lots of things – human fragility in the harsh landscape, the sheer aburdity of placing paper in this extreme environment, journeys – literal and emotional, displacement, etc. It…
I was really lucky to be to combine a Jerwood Makers Award with a Develop Your Creative Practise Award, in order to learn a *lot* of new skills. My brain still hurts, but it was so worth it. Mould Making, Slip Casting, Paper Porcelain, Concrete, Jesmonite, Metalwork – phew! It’s opened so many exciting prospects…
The show I curated at MAC Birmingham, the culmination of my Curatorial Residency, sponsored by DASH, 6th Jan – 22nd Mar 2020 (image: Great Britain from a Wheelchair, by Tony Heaton)
My Fragile Viking piece from Iceland, currently part of the “Letting in the Light” exhibition in Stratford, was seen on the BBC 11pm news on Sunday. The show was a backdrop to a vox pops piece on funding for mental health.