Venus In Transit
A few weeks ago me and two other artists (Jan-Willem van den Bosch and Caroline Collinge) applied for a Museumaker art residency at Orleans House in Twickenham, London. We got to the last three with our proposal and we made this short film to give a flavour of how we work in terms of connecting ideas, interweaving fiction and fact →
Charlie Gillet World on 3
A few Fridays back, driving back from London, after a meeting with two artists I'm working with and seeing the Anish Kapoor exhibition at the Royal Academy, listening to radio 3 - that's my main listening nowadays, I find everything else does my head in - after 10 in the evening, I came across Charlie Gillet presenting World on 3. →
SVA exhibition
Just took a quick look at the SVA - Stroud Valley Arts - exhibition. Some good and intriguing and some truly dreadful and poorly executed. Oogoo Maia's sonic found object sculptures tickled me. The first, I thought a poorly executed play on music by Steve Reich, using feedback from swinging microphones over speakers - the sonic part was not interesting or →
Pain
I am at an end with Schtanhaus and Headlong Theatre's production of The Winters Tale. Sunday morning I felt proud of the production, feeling proud of my contribution to my first professional Shakespeare production, now I want nothing to do with it. There have been three previews so far and press night is tomorrow and I feel the heart has been →
Virgin Media Shorts
Lucky Dip is now on the featured list. So if you find this page please find the film and have a look. A quirky little number that manages to tell the tale of a grumpy angler disturbed by a couple on an even stranger fishing expedition, without any words. The film is embedded in an earlier post or you can got to Virgin →
All The Little Things We Crushed
Starting work on sound design and original music for "All The Little Things We Crushed" at the Almeida Theatre. A response to the main show "When The Rain Stops Falling", this is written for a young audience. The script by Joel Horwood, travels back and forth in time bringing together different threads to a story set in an imaginary but →
Pettiness of Village Life
In the village neighbouring ours they are having a sort of art fair of work from inhabitants of our two villagers. My partner is a very talented water colourist and has returned to painting after a break of a decade. She has exhibited in galleries in Gothenberg, and has sold many paintings. So I have no doubt that she will →
Iya-Ile
Just been doing initial forays into sound design for Oladipo Agboluaje's new play Iya-Ile over the last couple of weeks. Tomorrow I will meet the rest of the creative team and actors at Out of Joint in North London. Exciting to be working with Femi Elufowoju, jr again. He is precise, knows what he wants and choreographs action to music, →
A Different Landscape of Reactions
Time to unburden the thoughts that have been keeping me from my sleep, forcing me to leave the warm cocoon of the duvet and pace about the living room for the last few hours. Several sources of thoughts have collided and sparked a furious debate within myself; reviews written in UK newspapers about Lemn Sissay's one man show at the Hammersmith →