A friend I had not seen since teenage years messaged me out of the blue. She was coming to London. She would not be in town for long but would like to meet even if it was for just 5 minutes. In a heartbeat the instinct was either this was something that got buried in […]
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There is a photograph in Åsa Johannesson’s exhibition at Stills in Edinburgh that stops you. Not because it shouts. Because it waits. Each portrait conveys something specific — a glance, a tiny tattoo, creases in a shirt, an awkward poise, a turned neck. These are not symbols. They are specifics. The particularity of a person […]
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Over the past year — working in my continuing bioinformatics research — I’ve found myself circling one question: What remains of us when memory falters, and who carries the fragments we lose? This question has become the seed of a new performance work: a play about Alzheimer’s, care, and the fragile rituals that preserve personhood […]
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A play was scheduled to open in 1958.But the curtain never rose…The writer vanished.Only the title remained — Whispers from Number 9. AUTHOR’ LEFT A NOTE:“I wanted to write something not loud, but true — a silence you could feel between two people in armchairs. The war is over, but we are still rehearsing our […]
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This morning I rode my bike through the rain to see new art. I was wearing an old anorak. As I warmed up in the entrance hall, a force field of sweet berries and marshmallow grew around me. It would have been one thing if I were a young girl, but as a full grown […]
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As I get older my work feels more abstract, less narrative based and detached from daily life. And I wondered where the story is. I look into my pictures. I can’t find it. So I look into my past. As I grew up in a Valley, my childhood was around trees because the country was […]
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North London wilderness extends from the Heath towards Archway to find Asa, a teenager, trying to make sense of life as his old school crumbles at its feet. London bricks are falling down, uncared for and not repaired. Left to breakdown, Asa’s family reaches out for help but is it too late? Will Asa ever achieve his aim […]
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Coming Soon to Greater Manchester Fringe! An adventure around London’s Bloomsbury with Ottoline. It’s 1922 and Lady Morrell is looking for the right love letter to put into a memorial for her beloved Tiger. Life is not a straight line as she stands in her tangled garden that has been without a labourer since Tiger […]
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Free open pathways guide Art to the screen for 7 International Artists. Where does the Art from these 7 international Artists guide you to? Seven Artists stand on different continents and do not meet Their latest work connects them in this new film installation They do not speak They make designs to join their separate […]
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Excited to bring the story of the shark that shipped up on Newlyn Harbour this year to Manchester Fringe. A great cast that includes Jo Phillips-Lane, Julie Broadbent and Ian McShee tell the true story of how a rare shark swam up to Newlyn shore. Find out the story of the rare mammal in July […]
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