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I love to interact with the 'real' world

 

On a residency at Victoria Baths, Manchester, in 2019, for a family-fun weekend, with torn paper on perspex, I turned nine changing rooms into a giant aquarium, calling it 'Free Movement'

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It's still there .  .  .​​

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At Distrikt bar, Leeds, a series of colour prints, worked up from jazz drawings, interacted with their sophisticated lighting systems

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In 'Hidden Worlds' at the Newington Gallery, London, as part of a group show with other members of the Art Academy Graduate Programme, in January 2018, I imagined, nature re-asserting herself into 'our' world

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And now I'm working in my home town of Stockport, in an old-fashioned, Brexit-leaning, boozer, where feelings on immigration run high 

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I like the bare walls, the landlord, who lets me get on with it and, despite our differences, the people

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There's a semi-derelict space at the back, that leads to the loos and beer garden. I've started making a collage of some of my jazz-drawings

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Sometimes, people scrawl on them. Often, it's just a name, or a random scribble. Other times, they seem to be go with the flow

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Time for a crit .  .  .  ?

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In the bar, I made this alcove my own, changing the colour of the walls - and even a table top

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