Projects

The Feelgood Collection

The Feelgood Collection

2012

A collection of homages to Dr Feelgood as part of Thames Delta, Focal Point Gallery, Southend.   As part of the exhibition ‘Thames Delta’ at Focal Point Gallery in Southend, artist Lucy Harrison invited Dr Feelgood fans to contribute their homages to the band,...
Mapping Your Manor

Mapping Your Manor

2011

Mapping Your Manor was a project made on the outskirts of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in 2011, when building work was still ongoing. It consisted of a series of audio recordings made with people who live or work close to the edge of the Park, many of them made in...
Light Up Your Street

Light Up Your Street

2011

A series of outdoor projection events in Hackney Wick using local people’s chosen song lyrics, collected during a series of public music events. As part of the new landscape in the Olympic Park, the Olympic Delivery Authority commissioned a series of permanent...
Leysdown residency

Leysdown residency

2011

Residency in Leysdown-on-sea, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, commissioned by Art at the Centre, Swale. A series of silkscreen posters were displayed around Leysdown in May 2011, inspired by conversations with local people. Also, a Leysdown-themed pub quiz was organised in...
The Absent Collector

The Absent Collector

2010

A project investigating the contents of a bag of letters and postcards found on a roadside near Palermo, Sicily, in 2009. Various Italian speakers were asked to translate one or more letters into English and to interpret and speculate on what the letters might have...
Poetry Machines

Poetry Machines

2009

Saison Poetry Library Royal Festival Hall Southbank Centre, London   Poetry Machines is a poem generator, using random selections of words taken from a collection put together as part of Lemn Sissay’s residency at the Southbank Centre.   The project...
Residency at Lokaal 01, Antwerp

Residency at Lokaal 01, Antwerp

2008

A residency in August 2008 at Lokaal 01, Antwerp, culminating in two projects: Public-space basketball courts of Antwerp and Magda’s flowers in Provinciestraat  
Art on the Underground: The Stratford Grapevine

Art on the Underground: The Stratford Grapevine

2008

Commission for Art on the Underground at Stratford station, the project involved producing 3 issues of a free newspaper, collated from local people’s contributions following the announcement of the London Olympics coming to Stratford. The newspapers were given...
Canvey Guides

Canvey Guides

2007

A public art project, part of ‘Art U Need; An Outdoor Revolution’, curated by Bob & Roberta Smith and included in the book ‘Art U Need- My Part in the Public Art Revolution’, published by Black Dog 2007. Canvey Guides archived website can...
Library Bingo

Library Bingo

2007

Commission for Beacon 07, made in association with North Parade Social Club, Skegness, starring Russell Cartwright and David Peltell. Bingo calls were replaced with library book titles from the Lincolnshire Libraries Collection and made into a randomly selecting DVD....
Reclaim the Night

Reclaim the Night

2006

Documentation of a walk taken in 2006 in Leeds, retracing the steps of the original ‘Reclaim the Night’ women’s march in 1977. The campaign was initiated in response to the police advice during the time of the Yorkshire Ripper murders that women...
Around the World from the Isle of Wight

Around the World from the Isle of Wight

2006

Consists of text and images (distributed as an A4 publication at an exhibition at Quay Arts, Isle of Wight, 2006) accompanied by a collection of ‘QSL’ cards collected by amateur radio enthusiast and Island resident Eric Heath. The project connects the...

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