Strange Bedfellows

This Friday (2 October) will see the opening event for the Barnsley town centre-based exhibition Strange Bedfellows, consisting of myself, and four very talented artists Terry Brookes, Rory Garforth, Rob Nunns and Elizabeth Sinkova. Here are some photographs of the exhibition after we set it up yesterday. PLEASE COME. Contemporary Gallery, 2-4 The Arcade, BarnsleyContinue reading “Strange Bedfellows”

Short Reflections on ‘Noises From The Wilderness’

Thanks a lot to SW1-Hunter, Gav Roberts, Liz Ferrets and Kevin Titterton for playing at our exhibition last night. I’m not one for overstating things, but the atmosphere there last night was truly something special, with the sounds/words and paintings/drawings all playing off one another. There were certain points in the poet’s’ most pleading momentsContinue reading “Short Reflections on ‘Noises From The Wilderness’”

Reflections on Voices From The Wilderness

Thanks to everybody who came down last night to my and John Wilkinson’s opening of our exhibition Voices From The Wilderness. We both felt it was well attended, and the evening was full of conversations engaging in the subject of the works, and how and why and John Wilkinson’s works potentially work well together. (TheContinue reading “Reflections on Voices From The Wilderness”

Images of Work from Recent Exhibitions

Over the past 2 week I’ve had my works in two exhibitions: In Unity Hall Launch exhibition in Wakefield I exhibited The Place of Dead Ends, The Index For Child Well-being and Whilst We Were All In The Eternal Now… And in Our Corner: Art as Political Expression, at Bank Street Arts in Sheffield, IContinue reading “Images of Work from Recent Exhibitions”

Five Years Drowning (exhibition @ Chapel Walk, Sheffield)

…Attempting a cognitive mapping of chaos…speeding of information causing its very disintegration…a proliferation of incomprehension…a deluge of auto-suggestions against the panic attacks of rare clear perception…being brayed between mumbo-jumbo-unreality and the biggest ever threats to humanity…underneath it all an cracking of skin and an aging of bones #CanIHaveSomeTimeAlone? Five Years Drowning. The exhibition runs untilContinue reading “Five Years Drowning (exhibition @ Chapel Walk, Sheffield)”

I’ve donated a large print of my drawing ‘I Want None of This’ to ‘Going Once, Going Twice, Gone!’, a fundraising event in aid of the Save Devonshire Street Campaign. When Sheffield Council approved demolition of 162-170 Devonshire Street, home to three of our most prized independent businesses, it didn’t follow the proper planning processes.Continue reading