My art practice includes live performance, textual performance, work developed in response to context or occasion, and participation in group or collaborative projects. Performance ranges from live reading, to singing, to durational work involving making and being in a space. Texts may prompt a performance response, a site or occasion can guide the activity, or an incident will give rise to an action or task that becomes the base for writing. Other aspects of the practice involve generating and editing text and image, via verbal or digital material occurring in the site or environment, or in response to encounters with scripts, audience or data.
Selected Projects and Performances
- ‘twiceness’ (2024)
- ‘cream of the crop’ (2024)
- ‘capes, folds, drapes’ (2023)
- ‘revised dictionary supplement’ (2022)
- ‘toward an emblem’ (2022)
- ‘9×9: a set of poems under constraint’ (2020)
- ‘material + transition’ (2018)
- ‘telling time’ (2018)
- ‘threaded insert’ (2017)
- ‘Subject to Gesture’ (2017)
- ‘his voice’ (2015 – 16)
- ‘Surface / Contact’ (2015)
- ‘answering machine’ (2014)
- ‘Hello! This is a test.’ (2014 – 15)
- ‘muster page habit 2’ (2013)
- ‘flat-head self-tapping: muster page habit 1’ (2012 – 15)
- ‘Hand in Glove: sinister hand vested sable lozengy couped’ (2004 – 12)
- ‘Voice Recognition: A Play’ (2011 – 12)
- for ‘even feed’ (Devon, 2011)
- ‘after Durer after Mantegna’ (2011)
- ‘what remains and is to come’ (2011)
- ‘figure and ground: Plymouth’ (2010)
- ‘barbed gadlyngs’ (2008)
- ‘adjust sailcloth earlier’ (2008)
- ‘figure and ground: Alytus’ (2007)
Project Management and Curating
I have worked in project and exhibition management across visual arts, theatre and performance in an independent capacity and under contract. Some recent projects include:
convenor of panel on ‘Art & Writing’ for Parallels/Encounters: Art, Words and their Meetings, part of Synesthesia II, Cultivator, Cornwall; June 2022 (freelance)
editor and presenter of ‘Constrained Radio Show’ for Soundart Radio, March – July 2020
VAP Platform 2018 mentor for the VAP Platform project for Plymouth Art Weekender 2018, funded by Horizon Project Plymouth and Arts Council England, January – October 2018
In Other Tongues organising committee member for In Other Tongues: creating metaphysics, embodying language, art.earth, Dartington Hall, June 2017
Language Landscape and the Sublime organising committee member for Language Landscape and the Sublime, art.earth and Schumacher College, June 2016
‘Organ of Corti’ project manager for Liminal on Organ of Corti (PRSF New Music Award); UK tour to five sites and festivals; February – August 2011
Other Project Management information here