2013
Carnaby Echoes investigated the musical history of the Carnaby estate (Carnaby Street and the surrounding streets), over a 100-year period from the opening of Murray’s club in Beak Street in 1913. This history encompasses diverse musical styles, including jazz,...
2013
A Club Collection was a project commissioned by the London Legacy Development Corporation to celebrate the opening of Timberlodge, a new community hub in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park which opened in the summer of 2013. The project acted as an introduction between...
2013
Residency at Archway Library, London, between September 2012 and January 2013, part of Hostings / A Million Minutes. Two newspapers and an audio tour of the library, read by a member of library staff, were launched at the end of the project. A Million Minutes was an...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
2005
Poster commission for Bookartbookshop as part of 5131N 0003W, curated by Richard Makin. An investigation into the connotations of unsavoury activity associated with street corners, displayed outside the bookshop at the corner of Pitfield Street and St. Charles...
