Transmission Members' Show

My work 'Common Villain' on at Transmission members show, King St, Glasgow 25th June 7PM until 23rd July.

'Let me Stay', is my ongoing project. The latest part is on until June 22 at #24 Hour Window, King St, Glasgow (next to 13th Note.) Curated by Nicola Atkinson and Caspar J. Wilson of Nadfly 

Ready-mades, including doll's house furniture and mass produced white porcelain labelled with hand sewn text embroidery to explore insecurity and precarity, juxtaposing techniques: mass-production and traditional making.

With thanks to the generous support of Creative Scotland Open Fund.

Podcast - Let Me Stay.

Mark Carrigan of The Sociological Review recorded this podcast with me about Let Me Stay:

Let Me Stay (Manchester.)

Supported by Dan Silver of Manchester based Social Action Research Foundation Let Me Stay was open from March 25-29 2016.

In an amazing space, at Manchester Creative Studio, 16 Blossom St, Manchester, M4 5AW I exhibited my work related to precarity and insecurity, especially in housing. Of the several hundred people who attended, we had some really interesting discussions, with amongst others politicians and also Contour Housing Association.

With thanks to Dan Silver, Manchester Creative Studio and Creative Scotland's Open Fund for their generous support.

I was interviewed about the project by The Sociology Review about the project here 

Transmission Members Show 2015

'Our Beautiful Words Are'

I was asked to submit in this group show, 'Total Recall' celebrating 20 years of Tony Trehy at Bury Art Museum, and also ten years of The Text festival, which has shown several of my pieces. (Print, calligraphy, hand sewn text embroidery, size A4.)

TOTAL RECALL 1 August — 3 October, 2015 

BURY ART MUSEUM

Moss St, Bury, Lancashire BL9 0DR, United Kingdom

How do you remember the people who are important to you? How do you conjure your shared past? Is it in an image, a sound, a smell, a touch? Or do you use words?

We invited world-leading poets and text-artists to make a language-memory for Tony Trehy, who has directed the internationally renownedText Festival at Bury Art Museum since 2005. This exhibition celebrates a 10-year anniversary of the Festival and a 20-year anniversary of Tony’s time at Bury. Writing on a wall, an Internet search, a diary entry, a flurry of thoughts … what is remembering and who is it for?

Tony Trehy has been the ring-leader of decade-long conversations, new opportunities, challenges and heated debates. Each of his four Text Festivals has added to a continuing dialogue between language and art. Every Text Festival has asked the audience a simple-but-complex question: How do I read?

Into the historic space of Bury Art Museum, Trehy has injected text that is a new ‘language art’ for the 21st Century. Bury was once the centre of paper-making in Britain, now it is a pioneer of language-making, with its Text Archive welcoming readers from all over the world.

TOTAL RECALL is a guerrilla makeover, an A4 invasion of reading into the larger narrative of looking. Unlike the street signs outside, these are not corporate instructions or sales pitches; they are antidotes. Walls, vitrine, archival box—nary a “book” to be found, but a heap of language left in memory.

TOTAL RECALL includes work by local, national and international text-based artists and poets: angela rawlings, Alan Halsey, Barrie Tullett, Carolyn Thompson, Cecilie Bjørgås Jordheim, Darren Marsh, derek beaulieu, Emma Cocker, Eric Zboya, Erica Baum, Jaap Blonk, James Davies, Jayne Dyer, Jesse Glass, Karri Kokko, Kristen Mueller, Lawrence Weiner, Leanne Bridgewater, Liz Collini, Lucy Harvest Clarke, Marco Giovenale, Márton Koppány, Matt Dalby, Mike Chavez-Dawson, Paula Claire, Penny Anderson, Peter Jaeger, Philip Davenport, Rachel Defay-Liautard, Robert Grenier, Ron Silliman, Satu Kaikkonen, Sarah Sanders, Seekers of Lice, Stephen Emmerson, Steve Giasson, Steve Miller, Tom Jenks, and Tony Lopez.

— derek beaulieu and Phil Davenport, Curators