The Way People Look

Horsebridge Arts & Community Centre, February 26 - March 19

Over the next three weeks I will be based in Whitstable, Kent as an artist in residence at the Horsebridge Arts and Community Centre. My initial plans are to be out and about as much as possible - observing, documenting and drawing. I hope to create a catalogue of daily life in a working seaside town outside of the summer season, with which permanent residents can engage and through which tourists and visitors alike can discover the heart of the community. As the project progresses, documentation and artworks will be displayed in the foyer and stairwell of the Horsebridge Arts Centre. Please check them out - you never know, you may catch a glimpse of yourself!

For further information and updates, please see www.whitstable2010.blogspot.com 

I will be facilitating a series of specially designed workshops at the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston during

“LOUDER THAN BOMBS” Art, Action & Activism

9 February -27 March 2010

“Louder than Bombs” is a 7 week gallery-based project during which 7 artists will express their creative response around a chosen social, political or global issue.

Throughout Autumn 2009 I have been involved in Watch this Space 6, an Engage and MLA funded professional development programme for teachers and gallery educators.

The programme's objective was to enable us to gain first-hand experience of each other’s work in order to initiate, build and sustain relationships that will contribute to the creative development of young people. As part of this I negotiated a placement with Esher CofE High School as a representative of two stitched-based organisations, the Embroiderer’s Guild and the Royal School of Needlework (RSN). I was tasked as an enabler, with helping to forge relationships between the school and these local cultural institutions, whilst finding new, fun and interactive ways for the students to learn about contemporary embroidery which might fulfill curriculum requirements. This included a series of cross-curricular workshops and a visit to the RSN, the opportunity to examine contemporary textile work, participate in a practical activity and to meet practicing artists.

The students at Esher CofE High produced some amazing work and we all had a lot of fun!

http://www.locusarts.co.uk/past_exhibitions.htm

Temporary Art Show

Opening: Friday 6th March 2009, 5-8pm (bring a bottle)

Temporary Art Space, Units 34-35, The Piece Hall, Halifax, HX1 1RE, UK

Temporary Art Show is the inaugural exhibition at Temporary Art Space in Halifax, following on from the hugely successful exhibition of the same name in neighbouring Huddersfield. Fifteen artists will exhibit painting, drawing, print, video, sculpture and installation works, responding to the broad theme of ?temporary.?

http://temporaryartspace.co.uk/TAS2.html

Temporary Art Show runs until Friday 27th March 2009.

Opening times: Friday-Saturday 10am-4pm and Sunday 11am-4pm. Entry and participation is free.

Temporary Art Space is an independent, unfunded, artist-run project with a lifespan of six months, situated in the magnificent Grade 1 listed Piece Hall in Halifax and co-directed by Alice Bradshaw, Bob Milner, Tom Senior, Kevin Boniface & Georgia Boniface.

The Terre sans Frontiere team are currently preparing for Fusion Rebuild 2009 - our international festival and residency project provding opportunities for cultural exchange and collaboration between Moroccan and international artists and musicians.

This years festival will be held in Morocco.

For more information please see

www.fusionrebuildfestival.com

www.terresansfrontiere.com

An example of my embroidery work and collaboration with the Practical Study Group continues to tour the UK.

http://www.practicalstudygroup.co.uk/gallery/creativedialogues/the-venues/

Examples of my film work will be screened as part of VIDEOHOLICA at the August in Art Biennial, Varna, Bulgaria

http://www.augustinart.com/edition_2008_en.php

http://www.chicagoartistsresource.org/visual-arts/node/16019

There will be a screening of my film, Depart, along with selected others at the Griffin, London (see below)

PROJECT: A screening of artist films

23rd July from 8pm at the Griffin, 93 Leonard Street, London, EC2A 3RG

Participating artists

Christopher Hall & Alexander Kelly
Anton Hecht
Nicky Larkin
Adam Laurence
Mathew MacKisack
Natalie Kay
Guy Oliver
Marianna & Daniel O? Reilly
Kate Pelling
Patrick Staff
Siobhan Wanklyn

http://www.anotherroadsideattraction.co.uk/