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Leaden and Deadly   My leather bound feet pierce the cold body of water. My weight drags me. My hair swirls around my panicked face, mouth full of algae and oily water. Layers of cloth are black and heavy. My […]

Drowning Still from Jubilee, Derek Jarman, 1977. Bod, Crabs and Mad take the body of man they had seduced and killed to dump in the estuary of the underground river the Neckinger next to Butlers Wharf. The river takes its […]

The area sparked with associations. On the river bank stood Butlers Wharf, the former studios hosting a whole generation of artists and film makers, inlcuding Derek Jarman, Jo Stockham, William Raban, Anne Bean, Stephen Cripps. ‘Cripps at the Acme: Drawings […]

Still from Jubilee, Derek Jarman, 1978 Dum sigillum summi Patris, Conductus for two voices, Perotin, ca 1200. Cross Bones Grave Yard, a formal burial ground for ‘outcasts’ in Southwark. Thought to be the final resting place for the ‘Winchester Geese’, […]

A Parish is a church territorial unit. St Mary Magdalene Church sits at the bottom of Bermondsey street. It is formed of temporal fragments, with the west wall dating from 1291, the main hulk of the building from 1680, and […]

The outside was definitely outside. Not next door. With no formal music education or experience of arranging music for other performers I couldn’t make a sideways step at the same level. But despite not being able to, I didn’t want […]

The iron fence demarcating St Mary Magdalen’s Churchyard, Bermondsey,  22 Jan 2017. This text has been written for a-n in exchange for an artist bursary. This bursary supported me during an exploratory and transitional moment, allowing me to train with, […]

Desire There is some sort of desire – but an inability to realise it. Some sort of instinct – or are these received patterns of behaviour? Work happened, but not the kind of work I had planned for, not the […]

With my next Magnum & BJP Workshop coming up this weekend, I thought I’d give you a quick update on what I’ve been doing since July… Lingering Ghosts at St Martin-in-the-Fields From June to September this year I exhibited 13 […]

Drawing is an activity that engages both the brain and the body. Contrary to popular belief, we don’t think solely with the brain; the body and the brain are two inter-connected systems that compose the mind. In fact, the brain […]