by Brendan Jackson | Jan 18, 2018 | Notes
Digbeth City Rockers Cheapside. It was a dive. The only house on the street, if you can call it a house. On the edge of the city centre, itself still then a warren of subterranean passages and elevated roads. Here was an even darker part of the town, where the oil...
by Brendan Jackson | Aug 27, 2015 | Notes
Compulsion Once upon a time, at dawn we went down to the beach at Hayling Island, near Portsmouth and made some pictures for the cover of a single Cherry Red were releasing. The water was freezing. Martin Gore of Depeche Mode covered the song ‘Compulsion’ on his 1989...
by Brendan Jackson | Aug 27, 2015 | Notes
Bert Williams “There is an old saying, the outsider sees most of the game” Where is to-day’s Bert Williams? In the April 1952 edition of Charles Buchan’s Football Monthly, Bill Murray - then manager of Sunderland - asked this question: ‘Whither are we going?’...
by Brendan Jackson | Oct 1, 2015 | Work
Intercultural Dialogue, 2008-10 Creative laboratories, events, residencies, publication This project consisted of three creative laboratories, based in Birmingham & Black Country in England, Bela Rečhka in Bulgaria, Sejny in Poland – alongside travelling workshops...
by Brendan Jackson | Aug 27, 2015 | Work
Some Things We Choose To Remember, Some Things We Choose To Forget, 2011 Artist residency, exhibition, publication, event A commission to produce work inspired by the history and heritage of the county and of Snibston Museum, Coalville, Leicestershire, which was set...
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