I am an artist

I am an artist and writer living and working in London. Past projects have included curating exhibitions, education projects, running small gallery spaces, residencies and project events.

I received training in sculpture and performance at Glasgow School of Art, which led to an interest in how art is created and distributed, how it is manufactured, performed and marketed, and in the possibility of an art that has no material basis. Artists, curators and critics are generally too caught up in an object obsessed conception of art, thinking about what art is rather than what art actually does. Art, for me, is a lived activity separate and independent from any objects which may be produced during its processes - an art school truism emphasises process as important as product, and I'm interested in how far this can be emphasised to the exclusion of making no objects at all. My practice is an ongoing activity, generally involving only undocumented dialogue, which does not produce material objects.

Current interests include David Bohm, Lee Lozano, Suzi Gablik and R.D. Laing. My interest in them is that of an amateur and I do not make work 'about' any of them or their thoughts.

I make art through dialogue. I stopped making objects in 1999 and, although I have no plans to make objects again, I could never rule it out. This lack of material production includes documentation of events I have organised, and I have no 'proof' that any of the projects that happened in my practice - and are described on this site - ever took place. Part of my interest in this practice is the event-ness or live aspect of activity and how it can never mean the same to people not present at its initial moment, how a visual or aural depiction becomes a canonical object standing in for an event. I believe it is better, for me in my practice, to speak carefully with one person than speak to a large group. This website functions more as a recollection of the events I have taken part in and organised than a document of activity. To experience one of my pieces that has passed, find someone who went along and ask them what it was like.

I have done some work on Resonance 104.4FM radio and, at the moment, I'm not sure how podcasting and broadcast fits into the rest of my practice; but its enjoyable and interesting and has begun to make me think about how the recorded voice might have a presence in my practice. If you have any questions about my practice, or simply want to initiate an email exchange about your work or mine, please feel free to get in touch.

Current projects include Portable Radio, a touring podcasting project taking place in ten different cities in the UK; Analogue, a dialogue project for Craftspace in Birmingham; and Rational Rec, which used to be a monthly interdisciplinary arts event in London and is now in process of being refigured into a commissioning programme.

I am also a programme co-ordinator at Artquest and have initiated a number of projects there, including a free artist studioo exchange website called Artelier and numerous talks and events.

Past projects include a year-long residency at studio1.1 gallery in London; Constitutional, a year-long series of undocumented group walks in London; the peer dialogue group Speakeasy; and numerous talks and events detailed elsewhere on this site.

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