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  • Dye Plants Garden and dye plants art
    Creating and maintaining the Dye Garden at Arches studios, growing plants at home, reflecting on this and utilising those plants and their colour in print and paint
    • Dye plants art
      Exploring the slow processing of colour from plants for ink, print and paint.
    • Arches Studios Dye Garden
      Creating and maintaining the Arches Studios Dye Garden. Notes and photos from the summer lockdown period 2020.
    • Natural Dye Curtain
      The curtain was made with natural plant dyes and prints, in collaboration with Celeste Ingrams, with participation from fellow studio residents and curated by Gemma Gore. Natural Dye Curtain was made Summer 2019 alongside a dye garden outside the studio.
  • Puppet Back Up
    Giant puppets getting involved in live concerns and beginning to turn up - in time - brought to life with the participation of many.
    • Climate
      PBU happenings in relation to the climate and environmental themes.
    • Marlhill Copse
      Protecting Marlhill Copse from the airport expansion.
    • puppets becoming
      puppets emerging for Back Up purposes
    • MIND Solent Mayfield Nursery spring event
      A group of us activating Puppet Backup to present the benefits of gardening for our mental health and wholeness.
  • Prints
    Card cuts and more
    • printed banners/flags
      large prints for causes
    • other prints
      more print explorations
    • arms trade
      pasted and sewn up alongside situations and puppet back up
    • Bike project
      Beginning with AA2A residency
  • situations and happening type things
    experiments with others for influencing positive social change. Often involving hand made props and resources and improvising kindly.
    • ten green bottles
      A performance set up with questions on how to perform a bottle script and bottle puppets
    • Bike stuff
      By, with, for our bikes...
    • arty parky
      creative fun initiatives in local public spaces.
    • nonviolent calm interventions
      Direct action in different forms involving making connections with people in order to influence and inform change around issues of military violence and harm.
  • Zines, flyers and cards
    A small collection of experimental zines, some hand made flyers and invitations for events and hand drawn doodly painted greeting cards
    • flyers
      hand made flyers and invitations from some small events
    • zines
      A small collection of experimental zines
    • hand doodled greetings cards
      spreading out the ideas and experimental doodle paintings
  • Workshops
    Art workshops and community projects.
    • Education/ community workshops
      Some of the sessions worked on as arts educator and facilitator.
    • Fairbridge Solent: Student Choice
      Fairbridge Solent and Southampton City Gallery, funded by Find Your Talent - PUSH, 10/2009
  • Solo Shows
    whole rooms of work
    • Revolutios Round Town
      Solent University, Southampton. 5 Dec 2012
    • Night and Light
      New Paintings. Harbour Lights Picturehouse, Southampton, 6-31 Jan 2013
    • Conjunction: Eccentrics and Radicals
      Quay Arts Centre, Newport, Isle of Wight. 16 Aug - 27 Sept 2008 Most of these works are for sale. Enquiries welcome.
  • crafted and textile objects and clothes
    crafted objects/ textiles and wearable art.
    • kneeling cushions
      kneeling cushions focus on prayer/ meditation with other issues and ideas
    • wearable art
      explorations in basic clothing and costume
    • objects and wall based
      textile/ paper/ mixed materials
  • Paintings
    Paintings
    • performance and banner paintings
      active paintings for performance or for campaigns or celebrations
    • Drawings
      Paintings / drawings on paper
    • The Last Picture Show
      From the last exhibiton at the Bargate Monument Gallery with 'a space' after their 7 years there.
    • Things
      various paintings
    • whispers and trails
      monoprints sprawling with zine
    • murals
      paintings on walls in public and private buildings.
    • some people
      various portraits
    • radicals and eccentrics
      work to do with the eccentric - off centre and the radical- deep rooted...
    • dress making pattern pieces
      To do with clothing manufacture and the patterns themselves.
    • swords and ploughshares, vines and fig trees
      work to do with the prophecy/ mandate of swords into ploughshares.
  • Big Public Painting
    site specific work commissions and exhibitions
    • we beneath
      site specific to mediaeval vault as part of Season Three of the Artvaults, Southampton. 07-09/2007
    • Linden Homes and Southampton City Council
      A series of paintings on hoardings on the Lower High Street, Southampton 6/2006 - 5/2007
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    Wed, 08 Mar 2023
  • Fruits of The Spirit, Southampton City Art Gallery
    Wed, 08 Mar 2023
  • Come to the Garden and Garden - Puppet back Up in care home garden
    Fri, 28 Aug 2020
  • The Yellow Teapot Garden Window Puppet Show
    Fri, 28 Aug 2020
  • Summer 2020: Puppet Back Up backing up care homes
    Fri, 28 Aug 2020
  • Arches Open Studios 2020
    Fri, 19 Jun 2020
  • Loss
    Mon, 21 Jan 2019
  • Nowheresville
    Thu, 15 Oct 2015
  • Arches open studios, Southampton
    Wed, 08 Jul 2015
  • updated with puppet stuff
    Wed, 08 Jul 2015
  • Responder
    Wed, 18 Jun 2014
  • AA2A exhibition 'Residents 2013' opens tonight
    Tue, 01 Oct 2013
  • Bread and Puppet
    Tue, 01 Oct 2013
  • 'Night and Light'- solo exhibition 2013
    Mon, 26 Nov 2012
  • AA2A Residency
    Mon, 26 Nov 2012
  • The Last Picture Show
    Mon, 26 Nov 2012
  • up to date contact
    Mon, 26 Nov 2012
  • Rocket Stove making workshop
    Mon, 17 Oct 2011
  • Its sewing time of year
    Mon, 17 Oct 2011
  • Lagerphone
    Mon, 17 Oct 2011
  • Nuffield 'Street Art 'project
    Mon, 17 Oct 2011
  • Wooden Spoon Puppet Show
    Mon, 17 Oct 2011
  • contact details
    Mon, 23 Mar 2009
  • Catalyst Part 2
    Sun, 15 Mar 2009
  • Solo Show - Conjunction: Eccentrics and Radicals
    Sun, 17 Aug 2008
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