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Fire! Fire! Fire!

Personal and artistic reflections on the past 6 months in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire and starting an Arts Council England funded project.

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The Melodramatic Elephant in the Haunted Castle

Arts Council England funded project about the melodramatic history of the Coronet Theatre in the Elephant and Castle, London. It is closing after 145 years of theatre, film, music and clubbing events.

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Medieval art made modern

Interview with Terry Bloxham, specialist in ceramics and glass at the V&A Museum and how a stained glass panel in the museum influenced my community art residency in North Kensington

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Fight The Housing Squid

Community art work in response to housing crisis and Government’s proposed Housing and Planning Bill to build more “affordable” homes

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The politics of transcendence, 1989-2016

  This-That returned to Warwick University on 3rd March after a hiatus of 26 years. The film was made by Jacob Barua and myself in 1989 when we were third year Film and Literature students. It was screened as part of a […]

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No Clash please, Silchester Calling

Community artist based at a housing redevelopment in North Kensington interviews residents, councillor, architect and Turner Prize nominated artist.

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Gradual renewal – the art of architecture

It was a pleasure to meet up recently with Derek Latham at Lancaster West estate in North Kensington where I was community artist in residence. He worked for the architectural firm of Clifford Wearden and Associates in the late 1960s […]

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Christmas cheer and conflict

I’ve almost concluded my artist residency at Lancaster West estate. There has been a hiatus to the community project work that has consisted of making large scale drawings for a mural and a short film. The regeneration works on Grenfell […]

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Vision of Paradise

A short film made by the V&A Museum Community Artist in residence and screening at the Portobello Film Festival on 5th Sep 2015

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V&A Museum Community Artist in Residence, 2014-15

For the first time, the V&A, in partnership with RIBA and supported by RBKC, staged a community-based artist residency.  My studio at 7 Shalfleet Drive was attached to the More West housing development. This is the first housing development in […]

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