Recovery

Guinea P, guinea pig costume, 2013

A recovery from the very busy Sluice 2013 and a thanks to everybody who helped.

Guinea P

Guinea P, guinea pig costume, 2013

Influenced by my 4 easy going and fun-loving Guinea pigs a simple performance of trying to be a guinea pig. 

Fruity Fancies

Fruity Fancies, paper, text, silk and ribbon, 2013

a collaboration/ ( requested) response to Rosie Blackburn's  performance work.

Fernando's Fur Fetish

Link to the reading of Fernando's fur fetish : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i1Ir0g_H_s

Fernando's Fur Fetish, fake fur, paper and the response to a friend's work, 2013, a collaboration with Dicky Taylor and Rosie Blackburn.

This was an accidental collaboration stemming from a request by Dicky Taylor for someone to critique his work. The book contains poems and stories in response to Dicky's fake fur canvases Fernando's fur fetish is a story from within the book. This work was taken further by a reading from Rosie Blackburn.

The First Waltz of Mr & Mrs Bobbins

The First Waltz of Mr and Mrs Bobbins, Text, paper, and lipstick, 2013, A collaboration with Frank Bobbins.

This piece was a ( requested)  response to Frank Bobbins performance piece: The First Waltz

Accidental Rabbit

Accidental Rabbit, News paper and paint, 2013

Colourful Poems

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Colourful Poems, Bedsheets and paint, 2013,

A project about metaphorical light and shadow based upon poems written from the influence of photographs.

( Untitled) a voice in the dark

( Untitled) a voice in the dark, 2013, 

 engraved glass, glow sticks, and a darkroom 

Text on glass reads:

" The sun ain't been seen

through

the shade leaf and green

dotted and dashed

like a tramp-man's cash.

Booted and shooed

it should have been cooed.

it gazes our face

a wish on a phase.

Freedom un-heard

to sing like a bird.

I couldn't be miss-heard."

We Only Defy The Laws Of Gravity When We Have Too, soldier

We Only Defy The Laws Of Gravity When We Have Too, soldier, enamel badge, 2012

A wearable illustration/protest from my story We Only Defy The Laws Of Gravity When We Have Too

We Only Defy The Laws Of Gravity When We Have Too

We Only Defy The Laws Of Gravity When We Have Too, Watercolour Paper and water colours in a photo frame, 2012.

A  crude narrative reaction to the building of a local supermarket in a place thought inappropriate by manny local residents. This is a continuing project still being edited and written for a book format extracts of which can be seen on Art as the none verbal voice.

" A glimpse of red"

" A glimpse of red", MDF, watercolour paper, water-colours, ink, string and acrylic paint, 2011

An illustration for my Novel Messenger Boy ( still being edited)

Extract: 

"They feed from the darkness those strange beings, like sunlight and us no one knows how or why they came into existence. They spread fast un-reluctantly over every life, every settlement, the flowers are dead and the fields are grey, trees falling and scents fading. They are coming the destruction is here already".