I’m a writer and artist, or an artist and writer... sometimes other things, too.
I live in the UK.
The work I make for publication, performance, broadcast and installation is often “subversive” (SFX), at times “startling” (The Independent) and occasionally even “fascinating” (The Times). Wikipedia classifies me as a “Science Fiction Artist”. I’m not sure what the anonymous Wikipedians and/or their taxonomical algorithm were thinking, nor am I entirely sure what it means, but I’m willing to live with it. I like to imagine it means I’m like an artist from science fiction.
I take part in gallery exhibitions, art and film festivals, readings, workshops and real-world incursions throughout my home country, the rest of Europe, and the world. Highlights of my career so far include the publication of two novels, being artist in residence at the University of Edinburgh’s Genomics Policy & Research Forum, exhibiting my films at La Biennale di Venezia and being awarded the Berwick Gymnasium Artist Fellowship by English Heritage and Arts Council England.
I’m an Associate Artist at ArtSway.
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I’m working on a new non-fiction book called ‘Career Suicide: Ten Years as A Free Range Artist.’ It's about being a non-famous artist, and it also looks at the realities and the practicalities of the contemporary art world. At the moment it's scheduled for publication around September 2010. Until then you can follow me on Twitter to read some of the more gnomic and/or insulting extracts that can fit into 140 characters...  ‘Magickal Realism’ supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, 2009, and by ArtSway Associates.  |
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AUGUST 2010
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My most recent major project is the performance lecture series Magickal Realism, based upon the life and work of the Elizabethan magus and scholar John Dee and his partner, the medium and con man Edward Kelley. I started work on Magickal Realism in 2009; the first performance was at Colchester Arts Centre in February 2010. The most recent was in Southampton during May. Others are currently being booked for later in the year and will be announced anon.
See many images, a huge amount of background information and a fraction of my research material on Dee when you visit the Magickal Realism page.
Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, and by ArtSway Associates.
Uncanny Valley collects many of my published short stories from the mid Nineties until late 2008, when the book came out. Some of the stories can be previewed at this site or at Pulp.Net (which is currently on hiatus, but the archive remains available). The book has two completely new and previously unpublished stories, ‘Mickey’s Mouth’ and ‘The Anachronist.’
Buy directly here or from the Amazon mothership. New 05/2010: Due to reduced printing costs, Uncanny Valley is now only £6.99 + postage. A PDF download is also available, despite the fact that reading 180-odd pages off a screen is nuts. New 07/2010: Enter the code BEACHREAD305 at checkout to get 15% off Uncanny Valley. Offer ends at 23.59 on 15th August 2010.
