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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Catch Up!
I suddenly realised I hadn’t actually written any of my news in the news section for, er, a very long time! So here’s a quick round-up of the highlights and we’ll all just pretend I’ve been dutifully keeping up all along. The Jerwood Makers show went on tour after the original London opening, to Newlyn…
Brexit Selfie
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…
Auctions, Shows, Prints & Yes, More Breathing Room!
Again with a composite news post after bloomin’ ages – knuckle-wrap for slackness! Unstable II sold at Sothebys in April. This time a crank stand, so 4 different configurations of the piece! Unstable III was featured in a show called Vice & Virtue, at Ruup & Form Gallery, in London. Our film of Breathing Room…
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…
Breathing Room to Premiere at IF 2020!
Great news! With the support of an Unlimited Commission, Breathing Room is being developed for touring to summer festivals, urban light festivals, and gallery spaces in 2020, and will premier at co-commissioning festival IF 2020. I am lucky enough to be working with producer Kate McStraw and Production Manager Tom Richmond. We also welcome on board…
Sheela
I’m not sure how to title this yet, or whether it will be part of a series. For the timebeing I’m going with ‘Sheela’ as in ‘Sheela-na-gig’. But I might change it to ‘Prawn’ or ‘Cuntface’. Nothing seems quite right. It may be because, although I had a strong compulsion to create this, I’m not…