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.
A new political piece, dedicated to those who’ve lost their lives as a result of benefits being revoked, or the the bedroom tax.
So – I made a piece about Brexit. I was pleased to be invited to participate in Thomas Gray’s Borderzones exhibition. I felt like it was worth braving the controversy to make the piece, which you can see here. In the end I got about equal flack from both sides, so I consider that to be a…
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…
Was very honoured to be asked to participate in a panel talk at Sheffield Doc|Fest this year with artist Nwando Ebizie, senior producer Jo Verrent, and Neuroscientist Peter Kok. Here’s a transcript of my short talk before the panel discussion ensued, about outsiderness and social change in the context of my work.
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…
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…