writer – artist – teacher
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.
Some images from my performance of ‘cream of the crop’ at SOAK Live Art in Leadworks, Plymouth on January 25th. The night was very successful, with a large attentive and supportive audience. Thanks to Tamas Kovacs for the photos, and to Kerry Priest and Nuria Bonet Filella for coordinating the evening.
My review of Briony Hughes’ recent publication Rhizomes, from Broken Sleep Books is now live on the Stride Magazine website. https://stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2023/12/awkwardly-negotiating-terrains.html
I made a visual text piece as my contribution to the World Book Night 2023 project organised and curated by Sarah Bodman and Linda Parr. ‘i remember / i don’t remember’ responds to the call using a sequence of childhood memories and found and generated text. The colours relate to the stories in the sequence.
For World Book Night 2023, WBN United Artists invited people via an open call, to read one or all of the following texts, and consider how they might represent a memory that could be used to create a shared experience, a coming together of voices from the past and present. I Remember by Joe Brainard / I Remember (Je me souviens) by Georges Perec / I Remember, I Remember by Mary Ruefle. 112 contributions were sent from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Mexico, Nepal, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Sweden, UK, USA.
The exhibition will be on show at Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, UK from 20th April – 30th June 2023, and Hong Kong Design Institute from late July – end of Sept 2023. You can view all the works received on the Instagram gallery put together by Linda Parr. WBN 2023 is curated and organised by Sarah Bodman and Linda Parr. The exhibition at Hong Kong Design Institute is organised by Jessica Ho Yuk Ching.
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.