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Corseted – the show, exhibition and workshops
The Alice team will spend much of the Christmas season preparing for the two dates in January when the script-in-hand readings of Corseted at Leeds Central Library and Morley Library will mark the end of the research and development phase. I have been working closely with the costumiers to firm up ideas for the…
Interview with Alice artist – contemporary fashion designer Gill Thewlis
This is the second in a series of short interviews with the artists who are working on the Alice in Bloomers project. Gill Thewlis has been commissioned to communicate through the design and construction of a costume the personality of the show’s contemporary character and her motivation. Like Allana Marsh, she will also be involved…
EMPIRES OF CLAY LAUNCH
The launch of my first full poetry collection Empires of Clay began dramatically with a text from my publisher Jan Fortune of Cinnamon Press to say that she had been knocked over at York train station and had injured her leg. Fortunately she wasn’t badly hurt but she would be unable to compere the…
Our Treasures
As part of my role as Beam’s lead artist for Altofts Festival In A Day, I was asked to write bespoke poems for a trail of the village of Altofts. This took place on 24th September 2016. Over the summer, I spoke to people from the community and listened carefully before crafting poems from their…