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 somewhat lacking in follow-through…
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Guerilla Installation!!!
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…
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