Studio — Projects
Good Things Happen to Bad People
Virtual
2024
Year-long online exhibition of political art and illustration from 2016 to 2024. Exhibition catalogue available from the British Library or by request.
Spaghetti Intaglio.
Richmond upon Thames
2019
UK exhibition of 24 artists making professional prints from domestic studios and with hand-built and domestic equipment. Exhibition catalogue in British library or available on request. Cover image by Michaela Wheater.
Kingston Eco Op 10 Year Anniversary
Kingston Upon Thames
2019
Collaborative artwork design for screen printed t-shirts and posters. Community screen printing project and enterprise.
My Health Story
Wandsworth and Southwark
2018
Imagineer Productions for Guys and St Thomas' Hospital Trust investigating if patient stories for those with multiple diagnoses could elicit empathy in clinicians. This is Sue who was awesome but I worked drawing and storytelling with patients over a couple of months to create parts for some films.
Unpopular Fiction Limited
UK
2014
From a set of short stories I got to print with the help of AND Public, sprang Pudding Press Ltd, now named Unpopular Fiction Limited. I wanted to publish my own work within an editorial structure, and now we publish other people's books too. It's still a micro-press and apart from spending 10 years wrangling with the variables of print and distribution, it has been a good thing to do. Starting from a point of ignorance of the publishing industry was maybe no bad thing, although being a printer only partially helped. See it at www.unpopularfiction.com.
Yoga Life
Milton Keynes
2022
Yoga Life was a project organised by the MK Arts and Heritage Alliance, exploring the contribution to Milton Keynes of the Hindu population. With the Milton Keynes Hindu Association as year-long community art workshop programme was implemented with the final outcome being a piece of creative artwork. This took the form of an installation in Milton Keynes Gallery which featured animation, sound and smell and required the audience to do something.
Refresh Art Award
London
2019
The Refresh Art Award was co-founded with Georgina Zafeiri and ran from 2018 to 2021. It was an International art award, with two shows in London in Brick Lane and in Peckham. Featuring some amazing contemporary artists, it also gave away a main Refresh Art Award as well as prizes for contemporary painting and drawing totalling around £8000. Exhibition catalogue of the 2021 show available from the British Library, or on request.
Ministry of Stories
Andre Has a Hard Time
2015
Ministry of Stories and Hackney Libraries in London paired illustrators with young members of the MoS writing group to make picture books from original stories. I wanted to take a co-collaborative approach after I saw that as well as being a talented storyteller, Nmeso had also done lots of drawings of his characters and had a definite visual idea of his creations. Peanut butter eyes and characters made out of both toasted and untoasted bread were a starting point... and of course, football.
The Free Bookshop
Portobello Road, London
2010
I wrote about The Free Bookshop in Murder and Marrakech and other stories, but what do you do when you inherit so many books that even Hay on Wye don't have the room to take them for free. An interactive art installation maybe.