Spontaneous Structures

This week I have been mostly in London, taking part in an exhibition called Spontaneous Structures, which was organised and curated by the highly imaginative Miss Anne-Laure Franchette. The opening night on Thursday was packed and busy and lots of fun! Some photos are up now on the Meanwhile Space facebook page.
The exhibition is in a temporary space in Whitechapel, thanks to the organisation Meanwhile Space, and it is a stone's throw from the Whitechapel Art Gallery. It's on until Sunday, April 24th, 6pm so catch it while you can. 

photos on flickr

Recent work...

First post since last year!

Very bad, very very bad...I need somebody behind me, hitting me with a stick to make sure I update my blog more often. So much has happened since September. I'm no longer at Kingston - I switched to Brighton University, which turned out to be A Very Good Thing. I'm on the MA Sequential Design and Illustration. 

I'll go into more detail soon, but for now here's a nice bit of news - a couple of years back I did some stop frame animation for Jo Lane's lovely film 'Time Goes Nowhere'. The film can now be seen on BBC Film Network. Go have a look - it is a really unusual and heartfelt film.  

Today I'm going to Crawley to do a workshop on words and colour with a local Age Concern community group. The workshop is for Wordfest, a great literature festival organised by Jo Harrison. Also check out the Cover Versions section of the site - I've done an alternative book cover for Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, and there are plenty of inspiring book covers to peruse. 

I've updated this post to include two alternate covers for the same book, both of which I think I prefer to the first! 

Here are some pictures of the mural I painted in the bathroom at Plas Gwynfa nursing home in Towyn, North Wales. Hopefully the residents are enjoying them!

The bathroom is window-less so it very much needed some life injected into it. 
Nursing homes can be so depressing. This is something I'd definitely like to see change over the next few years. It's easily forgotten that being in that home is, for the residents, another part of their life - it shouldn't just be seen as the last leg.
I've now got three more bathrooms to go at this home and I'm dreaming up ideas at the moment.

Things are moving along! I'm going to Kingston University in September to study an MA Illustration and Animation. My studio space is up for grabs. Follow the link if you are an artist based in North Wales and are interested.

Fox and Bird Concertina Book

These pics are in sequence...it's a concertina pop-up book I made. More adventures of Fox and Bird...or indeed other animals!..to come.

Fox and Bird