Carnaby Echoes

Carnaby Echoes

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,...
A Club Collection

A Club Collection

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...
Hostings @ Archway Library

Hostings @ Archway Library

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...
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...
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....
Hanging Around

Hanging Around

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...

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