Greetings From Shifnal

To celebrate the opening of Yew Tree Court, a new housing development for the over 55’s in Shifnal, Shropshire, I was commissioned to lead a Living History project, which explored and shared the stories and memories of older people living in the village with the younger generation, a project which culminated in the installation of permanent artwork. Material was been collected from conversations with the new residents of Yew Tree Court along with sessions with local primary school children at St. Andrews.  The project was supported by South Staffordshire Housing Association and Shropshire Council, and evaluated by the Creative Development Team at Walsall M.B.C. Read more here…

Unearthing Stories

A project working with staff at Snibston Discovery Park in Leicestershire,  creating images and accompanying texts for an installation as part of the Transform artists residency programme. Read more the process on this dedicated web page… or download the stories from this page.

Me, You and Everything Else

An inter-generational project in Castle Vale, Birmingham with Active Arts in collaboration with Geoff Broadway and co-ordinated by Sally Rew. One of the recent outcomes was a special issue of Vale Mail in December 2011. Vale Mail is a free monthly newspaper distributed to over 4100 homes in the area.  The December issue featured a special wrap round about the ‘Me, You and Everything Else’ project. View the pages here on the project blog: myaee.posterous.com/vale-mail.  The exhibition of the project opened at Phoenix Court Sheltered Housing at end of March, 2011, and then toured to Castle Vale Performing Arts College and the Sanctuary Youth Centre over the summer. It consisted of over 500 images made by participants shown on ten digital screens housed in a specially constructed steel structure. The work is being revamped for showing at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in November 2011 through to April 2012.

I Love Zero Siedem
Referencing the cult 1970’s Polish TV series about Warsaw cops, an irreverent black and white photo-based cartoon, mixing up the contemporary city with PRL,  an alternative post-communist consumer world where the Berlin Wall never came down. 88 episodes so far…

Banner photograph by Paulina Paga, in Bela Rechka.