OPEN CALL – Mayday – The Frolicking

Mayday – The Frolicking – Open Call for Live Art Proposals Live Art Exhibition and parade on Bank Holiday Mayday 06/05/2019 2-5pm Deadline: Midnight Sunday 14th April 💥EXTENDED – DEADLINE 12 NOON FRIDAY 19TH APRIL💥 “….that’s my costume – the Salmon of Knowledge.” The Wicker Man I am currently looking for proposals for four works…

ENTERTAIN – First Fanzine for two Decades

Fanzine produced for Dig Me Out Of The Woods, an exhibition curated by Alex Billingham with members of Black Hole Club and featuring Fiona Shaw. I edited and produced a 20 page fanzine using 1990’s methods, with pages from each of the exhibiting artists. Featuring words by Fiona Shaw, Alex Billingham and Vicky Roden and…

Tattles with The Cantess – Where’s Our Spake Gone?

This coming Friday 29th April I shall be premiering a new performance called ‘The Cantess‘, part of a body of work developed in response to Where’s Our Spake Gone?, a Heritage Lottery Funded project examining the history, use and evolution of the Black Country Dialect.   It’s going to be held at the Solvay Function Suite,…

Do You Remember the First Time?

On Thursday the Fifteenth of May 2014 ‘PEN‘ was unleashed at the exquisite Pen Museum in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter. Nonny Warn, Adventuress, Tale Teller and All-Round Good Time Gal was on hand to ask visitors a very personal question…. “…Do You Remember the First Time” This was, of course, the first time the visitors had…

There-There/Da-Da (and you shall have a story)

On Wednesday 27th February Nonny Warn and her Stalwart Companion Nikolai will be offering a drop-in advice clinic at [ s t a t e ] of Mind, The Vaults, Newhall Hill, Birmingham from 7-9pm. So feel free to drop in and air your gripes, grievances and troubles! Nonny will also be giving advice on…

Haniver & Son (or Through a Mirror Darkly)

Vicky Roden and Tom Smith are presenting their first collaboratory work since 2011’s ‘All My Dreams Came True! (but now i have a bunch of other dreams)’. Both artists are concerned with genuine phonies and altered realities, together with encouraging the audience to interact with and react to their work. “Through A Mirror Darkly” follows…

infestation… now in progress

The Monkeys go a Capering! Not long ago I went to a coffee shop with ol’ CM. Mitch, The Fine Fellow who runs it, came over to say hello. Some discussion was had about the poppets, their meaning and caperings, the little tales and tails, and how they don’t enjoy to be cooped up in…