I research projects in eccentric detail.
I often find they take off very suddenly.
I don’t like to explain in person that much, as it takes away from the made object.
Saturday, 5 May 2007
The Coming of the Wopoli
The Verb have done a wonderful job of my short play, The Coming of the Wopoli, available online for the next 6 days, broadcast on Radio 3 last night.
I’ve always thought I loved sci-fi until I was asked to do this programme.
Then I realized that, like one of the other guests, Francis Spufford,
Saturday, 28 April 2007
A+ Project (3)
Two websites have gone up, with details of a project I ran in partnership with Jorn Ebner and Theatre Cap a Pie in a small village school in Wearhead in County Durham, through Creative Partnerships Durham-Sunderland, last year.
Annie Bromley of Theatre Cap a Pie had initially been working with
Saturday, 28 April 2007
A+ Project (2)
Here is the text of an A poem, in the shape of an A, written using only words with a in them.
I made it in collaboration with Wearhead Primary School in County Durham, and it now adorns all the ceilings of the school in vinyl lettering.
See adjacent Blog entries for a photo-montage of it on the
Friday, 27 April 2007
A+ Project (1)
Here is a photo montage of a poem I installed across several ceilings of several walls in Wearhead Primary School in County Durham, in a project funded by Creative Partnerships Durham-Sunderland, working with Annie Bromley of Cap a Pie and Jorn Ebner.
See adjacent blogs for more detail and links
Tuesday, 27 March 2007
Spennymoor Letters Win Award
The Spennymoor Letters won its first award last night, in a nerve-wracking evening at the Journal Culture Awards 2006.
This is the Newcastle-based paper’s first year of the Awards, celebrating arts and culture throughout the region.
For me, not least, it was a great chance to learn about events
