
I am pleased to announce I have been Longlisted for the Visual Artists Association Visual Art Open Prize 2023.

I am pleased to announce I have been Longlisted for the Visual Artists Association Visual Art Open Prize 2023.

I am pleased to announce my work Hints for British Tourists has been chosen for Issue 1 of the Contemporary Landscape Photography Journal – An Altered Landscape. Hints for British Tourists is the re-staging and fictional expansion of a found pamphlet containing instructions for travel. Presented as photographic documentation the work is a meditation on travel, tourism, time and memory.

I am pleased to announce my piece “Dangling Modifiers” was accepted to HAUS A REST magazine, Issue 37 Alter Ego’s. Dangling Modifiers is the document of an ephemeral performance capturing a subject in process, a momentary ecstasis where high on a hilltop in the Lake District I attempted to dance with Paul Klee using his drawing Knotted 1920 as the performative score. I engaged in an improvised choreography whereby the drawing was translated into movement by falling, jittering, twisting, snaking, weaving and shimmying on a hilltop like a deranged walker. This performance was part of a residency where several bodies slept together in a village hall, and explored their structures, rhythms, touch, possibilities, limits, and their fragilities. This text is the only document of the performance.
You can read the piece here https://www.haus-a-rest.com/issue-37-writers-

Poems – by Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell is a collection of poetry written by the literary sisters Emily, Charlotte, and Anne Brontë. Published in 1846 under the pseudonyms Currer (Charlotte), Ellis (Emily), and Acton (Anne) Bell, it only sold three copies when first published. After the success of their later works, the poems have since garnered more attention and acclaim. The Brontë sisters consisted of Charlotte (1816-1855), Emily (1818-1848), and Anne (1820-1849), who belonged to a nineteenth-century literary family associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters are most famous for their novels, namely Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre”, Emily’s “Wuthering Heights”, and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, each an irrefutable classic of English literature. Contents include: “Mementos”, “The Wife’s Will”, “Gilbert”, “Life”, “The Letter”, “Regret”, ” Presentiment”, “The Teacher’s Monologue”, “Passion”, “Preference”, “Evening Solace”, “Stanzas”, “Parting”, “Faith And Despondency”, “Stars”, “The Philosopher”, “Remembrance”, “A Death-Scene”, “Song”, “Anticipation”, “The Prisoner”, etc. Complete with biographical notes of Emily and Anne Brontë by their sister Charlotte Brontë, along with an Essay by Virginia Woolf on the Brontë Family Home, Haworth.

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“Resolve to perform what you ought, perform without fail what you resolve” Benjamin Franklin, polymath
Resolve: decide with an effort of will, separate the component parts of, make clear, settle. conclude, determine, intend, disentangle, explain, solve, unravel…
Resolute: firm in purpose, bold, constant, determined, dogged, persevering, purposeful, steadfast, undaunted, unflinching, unshaken, unwavering
Resolution: Declaration, determination, intention, purpose, firmness of conduct or character, act of resolving
Actions: Be, be, be, Do, do, do, Commit, commit, commit, Act, act, act, Reflect, reflect, reflect, Repeat, repeat, repeat, Anon [‘anon anon’]
‘It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little
– do what you can!” Sydney Smith, English Writer and Clergyman
Yours for a resolute 2023

Quotes reproduced from http://www.famous-quotes.com/author.php?page=1&total=40&aid=6825