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“Folklore and hearsay fascinate me, how the myths and legends of the past affect our world today. I love telling stories that hover somewhere in the hinterland between fact and fantasy, whilst scratching at the surface of a truth. My […]

Mandy smelled the same as her sister all those seasons ago curled up in the very same blanket. Sam by then was a year and a half old. The arrival of Mandy was a similar affair as the arrival of […]

  That night I lived the rest of my life back in the old house. My dreams were so vivid that even the scents that filled my mind were real. Mandy and Sam were at the kitchen table, TC on […]

  For such a horrible day, I expected the weather to have mirrored it more appropriately.  Maybe rain that fell at such force it stabbed your coat and stung your skin or wind that brought down trees and brock fences. […]

Tomorrow we install the POST artists exhibition in St Alphege church Whitstable for the Whitstable Biennale Satellite program (details are all here). It’s been a busy couple of weeks of trying out ways to hang the diagram poems so that […]

From their inception my diagram poems have been an exercise in recontextualising readymade text and exploring the new meanings that creates. Bringing these previously unconnected words and phrases together makes space for new interpretations and redistributes the weight given to words […]

I like to get the first diagram poem of a series finished early on in the process, even before the rest of the words have been collected, sorted and collated. This collection of diagram poems will be exhibited as an edition […]

A couple of weeks ago writer Carrie Patten made a visit to my studio, we talked for an hour or so and she looked through work in progress and pieces ready to show. Her reflections have allowed me to consider […]