In Stechford, Johnny O’Hanlon of Hamfisted! and I worked with members of Stechford Youth Network, Bierton Road Youth Centre and Birmingham Disability Resource Centre, to produce an 18m ‘window-mural’ for a new health centre. An article in the Birmingham Mail has more information, as well as a sample of the work installed. Here are portraits [...]
Just moved into a new studio-era, in Beautiful Digbeth, Downtown Bir ming HAM!
It’s categorically unrelated, but when I came across this picture, and all I could think about was the song from episode 4 of Psychoville: repellent, pathetic, sublime. (apologies to Neil)
These are the self-portraits from mat and Cheryl’s wedding. Contact me if you’d like a copy…
Work in progress… see Resurgence post below.
Since February I’ve been working on this project: It’s been really good, hard work but very interesting. The showcase went down well at the Drum on Tuesday. The photos below were made working with students from schools in Aston and Nechells, around the theme of ‘Our Shared Future’ Many thanks to all those involved.
A couple of years ago, I found a skip full of boxes of geological samples, powdered stone and earth from all over the world. I strapped some of the boxes I’d emptied to the back of the bike, as they now seemed full of the possibilities of future use. Of the flat kind, I have [...]
…is a free improvisation night, occasional, amongst other places, at the Lamp, one of the best pubs around, on Barford St in Digbethish this from some long rolls i shot with a 1906 folding pocket kodak that friends found in a skip, to sit alongside the surprising music… this is them. and this is some [...]
I’ve been looking at edges; now that I think about it maybe this has to do with Permaculture’s interest in the generative potential of edge zones- the seashore, the delta, the hedgerow, the riverbank. In this city, the urban and the rural have edges that are closer to the surface than is often evident at [...]