About me
Freelance producer, curator, writer and serial collaborator with a compulsive urge to 'make stuff happen' between waking and napping.
Formerly manager with the BBC Public Space Broadcasting Project; responsible for the Big Screen Liverpool, launch and debut commissions for the Big Screen Edinburgh and wider facilitation of artistic and interactive projects across the expanding screen network.
Content ranges between digital video art to short film, soundscapes, responsive applications and interventions in public space, including curating a number of projects during Liverpool 2008: European Capital of Culture.
I produced the Arts & Events programme for Urban Screens Manchester, a four-day showcase of the best in creative outdoor media at venues throughout the city. Activities included projection, VJ sets, live streaming, mobile gaming, motion-sensitive installations and a video exchange featuring the work of 80+ international contributors.
My wider background is a diverse mix of arts production and journalism, as a writer for children’s comics and blisteringly up-beat teen magazines, festival production (Edinburgh Fringe Society, Belfast Arts Festival), radio film critic, video journalist and freelance ne’er-do-well. I also chair moves: Movement On Screen, the UK’s largest exhibition platform for experimental short film and new media in this field.
I’m actively seeking collaborative opportunities. I’m a sucker for print or ephemera-related projects, reaching out to new audiences using informal and unexpected settings, site-specific work and dodging the swinging scythe of cultural snobbery.
Come closer. I might bite.
COMING SOON
If you go down to the woods today - Grizedale forest over Easter to be precise - then be sure you have fingernails long enough to nibble on. Scratch'n Sniff Cinema is returning to present neglected fairytale horror-fantasy The Company of Wolves.