commission

  • Haunt Commission

    To inhabit, visit, or appear to in the form of a ghost. A place much frequented. To haunt one’s thoughts or memory. Haunt was an Imove project with fiction writer Steve Toase that sprang from his experiences and grew into a book Haunt and site-specific theatre piece of the same name. The first incarnation of the show…

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  • 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…

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  • Umbrellas Commission

    The commission was for me to produce texts to be displayed on umbrellas which were to be hung in Grassington Market Square for the duration of the festival.   The idea was conceived by Bryony Pritchard, Visual Arts Director of Grassington Festival. Bryony interviews me about the process of making the umbrellas Bryony: 10 brollies. 10…

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  • Morley Literature Festival Commission 2013

    ‘Daisy Hill’, ‘Queen Street’, ‘in bloom’, and ‘cow’ all found their way into the commissioned poem below.  But it wasn’t just these words and phrases that influenced its conception. Some of the other words collected by the festival team contained recurring motifs – the kindness and genuineness of the people; the beautiful historic buildings; Morley’s…

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