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!
It was really rewarding to finally see Paradise Lost, my project about town planning and homelessness, come to fruition. It was created to make 50 years of Milton Keynes, and took about 18 months to come together – it was a real labour of love. It’s been showing as part of MK Fringe 2018, on…
My kinetic piece Where Do you Live? is currently showing at MK Calling 2020 (to re-open after lockdown!) Many thanks to amazing collaborators Clive Doherty and Stuart Moore for amazing engineering and coding skills!
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…
Secured my first ever bit of substantial funding – very exciting! It’s a research and development grant from Unlimited. Working in collaboration with Clive Doherty at Festive Road I have been awarded money to develop my Breathing Room concept further – possibly for outdoor use and touring. Watch this space!
The show I curated at MAC Birmingham, the culmination of my Curatorial Residency, sponsored by DASH, 6th Jan – 22nd Mar 2020 (image: Great Britain from a Wheelchair, by Tony Heaton)
Imagine, if you will, a 15 ft snaking paper ribbon on a horizontal plane, with 70’s-style dymo tape text on both sides. (That’s what would have been in the picture…). Unfortunately the festival team were not very competent and they messed up installing it. Here’s a description though: So Near Yet So Far As…