Amazing news – especially considering that I don’t write any more! I have been shortlisted for the Montreal Poetry Prize. I am in the 2015 anthology. You can read my poem, The African Burial Ground, and hear a recording of me reading it here.
(You might want to glance at a famous piece of American Realism called ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’ first…)
So… in a surprise turn of unlikely events, this happened… watch this space, I guess. Show in Jan 2022, which will tour to Aberdeen Art Gallery and Newlyn Gallery in Penzance.
Please do come hear me speak with the lovely Dr. Jason Hickel, in association with my piece The Constantly Moving Happiness Machine. I’ll be talking about consumer capitalism, and Jason will be talking about degrowth. We will be chaired by Prof. Kevin McConway. 8pm, Milton Keynes Central Library, £5, book here. (Poster)
Prints of my shadow installation piece ‘Berger’ were recently featured in HANDMAID, the exciting exhibition by We Are Sweet Art. Great opening – free cocktails and vulva cupcakes! My only opening that’s been so popular it was one-in, one-out (so to speak…) Touted by Red Magazine as one of the 7 best things to do…
I was very tickled by John Berger’s observations on the female nude in art: “the ‘ideal’ spectator is always assumed to be male and the image of the woman is designed to flatter him”. I wanted to create an imagery that made this manifest. This is installed in a dark space using six lights with…
I was selected to do an ident for ITV, as part of their ITV creates project. The ident was shown for the week of 11th November, 2019, live between programmes on ITV. There are five edits in all, plus a version with a short interview – playlist here.
