I know, right? I made it all the way to the motherfucking Tate! …for all of 4 days ;). Dole Scum II was shown at Tate Modern in Feb 2107 as part of Shape Arts ‘Ways of Seeing’ for Tate Exchange. I wasn’t there after install – cos just standing next to your art going…
Not quite as big-shot as I’ve made it sound, but I will have an installation at Tate Modern from 24th-26th February! Watch this space! It’s part of an exhibition about how best to present art so it can be experienced by blind and partially sighted people, and is a collaboration of Shape Arts and Tate…
Prints of my Street Interventions are currently showing, until mid-January in Venice, as part of an experimental art festival. I’m mostly tickled that whilst in Venice, surrounded by exquisite Venetian architecture, you wander into a gallery to find nine prints of the best of Milton Keynes!
My piece Sheela is featured in the december issue of Average Art magazine!
Another two great shortlistings – The Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary for the second year running, and the Unlimited Commission for the Northern Festivals Network. Didn’t get ’em, but yay me for getting shortlisted. The ARMB shortlistings book-end my year-long run of being shortlisted for cool shit that I fail to get. Methinks I may be…
I’ve been featured in an art magazine called Articulaction! How exciting!:
My guerilla pop-up installation in a Milton Keynes underpass went spectacularly well! Several hundred people showed up to see ‘Fake Plastic Trees‘, my Memorial to the Midsummer Oak, which died in Central Milton Keynes after a shopping centre was built around it. We had amazing musicians and poets entertaining everybody for the full 2 hour…
Very excited to be shortlisted for Inside, a disabled artist commission at Quad in Derby.
My Piece, ‘The Political is Personal’ is currently being shown at Conway Hall, presented by The Ethical Society. My blog about the piece is on The Fabian Society website! Exciting times!!!
I’m delighted to impart that I’ve been shortlisted for the Jon Schueler Scholarship, which allows an artist to develop a project for three months on Skye, with a sizable stipend. I have an interview at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, so cross your fingers for me! I’m not getting too excited as I’m becoming…