I’ve spent the last few weeks doing a lot of work wearing my other hat as gallery technician for Furtherfield.
We’re launching our first touring exhibition this week - Digital Zoo, Life From The World Wild Web - featuring works selected from our recent exhibition schedule in Finsbury Park. The image above is of Animacules by Genetic Moo. The tour sees the works sited in shopping centres around the UK. More info here.

My role in all of this consisted of designing and building a series of structures, which can be dismantled and reassembled in each venue, to house the works. As the tour is being shown in shopping centres we have to install at night whilst the centres are closed. It is very strange being in an empty shopping centre at 5am.

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Blog posts have been a little sparse lately due to various factors: I’ve been concentrating on my ACE research and development projects, and, as previously mentioned, I’ve moved to an entirely different city.

I’ve been walking the street-level route of the abandoned Duddeston Viaduct in Digbeth, Birmingham, with various people and recording the conversations. This material is going to form part of a special one-off publication about the Viaduct to be launched in mid-March at A3 Project Space. To mark the launch there’s also going to be a special group walk. More details about the progress here.

I am also developing a piece for Wembley Vision based on my research visit at the end of last year (you can read my report here). Watch this space for news.

Further coverage of both projects can be found here.

A fresh, new, revamped website is also imminent. Once again, watch this space.

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My project for Wembley Vision begins on Tuesday. I’ll be conducting research amongst the residents of Wembley, finding out how they feel about where they live, and what they would change about it.

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After a rather hectic period I have finally relocated to Bristol - so it’s back on with work, getting exhibitions and continuing my research and development projects.

I’m really looking forward to getting stuck in to Bristol’s lively art scene; I’ve already been to make sushi at Spike Island and been to a few exhibition openings.

I’ll will now be recommencing my research and development projects - You Are Here in Birmingham will begin it’s next phase soon, and the replacement third project will hopefully be announced soon.

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Short project ‘A Matter of Substance’ began installing yesterday.

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I am very pleased to announce that I have been awarded a research and development grant from Arts Council England.

This award will enable me to research and produce three new works using various forms of public engagement over the next five months, along with mentoring from three respected arts practioners to help me develop my practice and create a more sustainable career.

More information will follow as the months progress - keep tabs on my development by following the R&D blog.

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Friday saw the culmination of the London 2012 Olympic Recycling Project - a series of workshops in five schools in St Albans. I was working at Oakwood School with Poplar Class - a lively bunch of year 4s - who created the Litter-cruncher Chimeracycle.

On the day all five schools congregated at Fleetville school to present their work and Poplar did me proud. First they talked about the project and how we developed the work. Then they told the story that we wrote together, complete with the illustrations they had drawn.

The children read beautifully, their interpretation of the work was clear and straightforward, and they managed to convey their excitement and enthusiasm for the project. Plus their drawings looked fantastic projected four metres wide on the screen.

I would once again like to say thank you to Miss Tapster and Chris Blanch, and most of all to Poplar Class. I think we all had a fantastic time and we managed to produce something really great.

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I’ve spent four days out of the last two weeks running a workshop at Oakwood School in St Albans.

Using material left over from the London 2012 Olympics and working on the themes of ‘Legacy’ and ‘Recycling’ myself and Poplar class created a new creature, made up of lots of different creatures, that could recycle man-made material. Each child designed and made their own piece of the sculpture and we spent an exciting, nail-biting final few minutes as myself and two members of staff hoisted the final work between two trees in the playground in front of a cheering class.

It was great fun and the children were brilliant.

Full details here.

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Barnraising and Bunkers opens tonight at g39 in Cardiff. The exhibition features my latest work Deep Throat.

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The work for Barnraising and Bunkers was completed on Wednesday. The exhibition opens on 4 May.
My work is called Deep Throat. Can you guess why?

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