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First ever Poetry Performance. 

St Paul’s working Men’s Club, Blackburn. 

Two poems: First up – New Boiler (Do More).

Second – New York by Someone Who’s Never Been

120 Year Old Rhubarb 

The development of this story has come through a 1000 word short story, into a sonic essay (listen without pictures here). This movie format incorporates old photographs, new photographs (we never thought to picture the yard in its heyday – why would you?).

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Six Odd Doors. A sonic excerpt from an upcoming novel

What can a future look like for a creative world built in everyday lives of precarity and exclusion?How do we manage beyond the funding, opportunities, ownership and the politics of the powerful? I do not really know but I think we make things and create, form new miniature communities that begin with ourselves.

Tiny Power.   

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Gonzo: The Artist on the Margins

The BAFTAs, Academy Awards, Golden Globes, International and National film festival kudos, medals and trophies, recognition and stunning reviews for best short film. Some films never trouble any of those accolades and this is one of them.

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In Dunn’s Steps: A Walk from Blackburn to Blackpool

This is a video recounting of my walk as I retraced the steps of Blackburn autodidact, collector and inspiration – James Dunn.

The film was used as a precursor to a talk I chaired between Professor Cynthia Johnson and artist Jamie Holman (19th November 2020)

The talk itself can be watched here (Watch ‘Over the Wall: Cultures of Collecting‘ by clicking here)