Tag: Plymouth

artist talk at University of Plymouth

I will give an artist talk for The Fine Art Department at University of Plymouth today, 6th March 2024. Titled, ‘Performance Process and Materials: Making Work Happen’ the presentation is aimed mainly at undergraduate Fine Art students.

“Using examples from my practice over recent years, I will look at how you might consider relationships between studio practice and making live art or performance, and how you might present live work. Projects develop differently, they originate from different beginnings or get nudged by circumstances. Work gets shared in different forms, to different audiences or contexts. Starting with process and materials, ideas we are familiar with from painting or drawing or moving image, I will discuss my engagement with text, actions, voice and body. Alongside this, I will talk about various platforms or ways of sharing and showing performance-related work.”

reading at The Language Club on March 22nd

I will be reading as one of the line up for The Language Club at Rockets and Rascals in Plymouth’s Barbican on Friday March 22nd.

I’m very happy to be part of the latest event of this long-running reading series organised by Steve Spence.

He will be reading, along with me, Sarah Cave, Matt Carbery and Sam Machell. Event starts at 7pm, with donations on the door.

‘cream of the crop’ for SOAK, Plymouth on 25th January

On January 25th I will present a new performance peice as part of the SOAK Live Art event at Leadworks in Plymouth. Organised by Sarah Blissett and Kerry Priest, SOAK is a bi-monthly live art series with a number of performers each time, bringing together live art, experimental performance, film, spoken word and music. For SOAK I will perform ‘cream of the crop’, a development of the research and testing I did on residency at Live Art Ireland in October 2023. Looking at grass and plant life, at rural life, at the impact of the dairy industry, the piece considers interaction of human and other-than-human systems. Simple actions with props and tasks are structured into a sequence, threaded through with spoken text. There are bin liners, a bucket, gloves, knee pads, a body, and words that slip between contexts of climate, sport, and agriculture.

Tickets etc via Eventbrite HERE

‘capes, folds, drapes’ with William Luz at Minerva Cafe on March 2nd

On March 2nd at Minerva Cafe in Bretonside, Plymouth, artist William Luz and I will present some outcomes from conversations and work-in-progress. Our process of working together started from a conversation about drawing, gesture, mark-making and representation. Specific details came to the fore, and prompted a gathering of material around fabric and drapery in art, and around the image of the cape in particular in superhero comics. Further thoughts clustered around queer representation of the cape, around desire as focused on the wrapped, clothed or veiled body. Our distinct practices in drawing, performance, writing and making combine in this joint presentation of early outcomes of this investigation. There will be drawings, actions, reading, words, and a free mini-zine for the audience. The event is part of the First Thursday series organised by Queer District Collective.