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…

Crit Club – 19/09/17

I’m fairly excited to be giving a presentation of my ongoing practice on Tuesday 19th September at Vivid Projects from 6-8pm Part of Vivid’s very splendid Black Hole Club scheme it gives me the opportunity to present my practice as a whole and discuss current projects and works in progress. I’ll be presenting a brief…

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…

The Double-Plus-Good Kantisto Warbles!

The Double-Plus Good Kantisto Warbles shall serenade you as part of the Black Hole Club exhibition ‘Transmission‘, opening on Digbeth First Friday 2nd June from 7-9pm and then showing on Saturday 3rd June 12-4pm at Vivid Projects. The Double-Plus-Good Kantisto Warbles represents the continuous descent into obselence of any new technology. Since time began there…

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,…

Poppet Simian Instructions

A guide to making your own Poppet Simian Sock Monkey, as published in “When I Was A Child I Wanted To Be A Cryptid”    

Will Swarm for Coffee

At Urban Coffee Co. Church St New configuration… Photographs below by Rob Harwood

A Swagger & Swarm

A Swagger & Swarm New Art West Midlands at The Barber Institute of Fine Art 13/02/2015 – 17/05/2015

Infestation Four – More Than Vintage

On Saturday the Second of August various sizes of Poppet Simian infested More Than Vintage in Birmingham’s Great Western Arcade – being creatures of socks and found accessories they felt at home capering among the ancient tomes and glorious headwear, and shoppers were invited to move, play and interact with them in any way they…

Call Out For Performers – A Samhain Spectacular!

Following on from High Tea And Tales, A Walpurgis Night Of Vaudeville, Nonny Warn will be again manifesting herself this Halloween for High Tea and Tales Two – A Samhain Spectacular! At the Old Joint Stock Theatre in Birmingham City Centre. Spectacular Adjective of or like a spectacle, marked by or given to an impressive,…