Diverse

Four Corners, Bluecoat, Liverpool

In 2009 I was invited to programme and co-devise the Four Corners exhibition and events at the Bluecoat, Liverpool working with Ruth Ben-Tovim from Encounters Arts as well as working on exhibition and graphic design elements with Jo Salter. Four Corners is a city-wide community project involving 6 different communities and five different arts organsiations (The Bluecoat, Everyman Playhouse, ICDC Liverpool John Moores University, Arts in Regeneration and Encounters Arts). The projects this year were themed around Liverpool's 'Year of the Environment'. As a culmination and celebration of these projects across the city, we programmed a week of exhibitions, performances, exchanges, discussions and films exploring environmental and ecological themes at Bluecoat, Liverpool in July 09. This included the co-creation of Dr Carbon (see Climate Change for more info on Dr Carbon) and the Eco Fools to animate the event as well as reskilling workshops and a world cafe event.

A Patch of Ground

Additionally I was invited to work with Ruth Ben-Tovim as associate artist and co-deviser on 'A Patch of Ground' one of the six community projects. A Patch of Ground involved 16 participants from across Liverpool age 6-80 years, creatively exploring nature, environment and ecology together every week for three months. This included creating a small permaculture inspired garden in the Bluecoat, cooking and eating together and sharing ideas, fears, stories about the natural world leading to an exhibition and series of public performances at Bluecoat, Liverpool.

In late Autumn 08 I was invited to be designer and creative editor of Commonsense - a web and paper based publication exploring the concept of 'Commons' working with Dougald Hine, editor. This was commissioned by Access Space, Sheffield. and funded by ACE Yorkshire. Publication due August 09