Malicious Damage - Cancelled

Sadly, the Malicious Damage colloquium in Southampton (see below) has been cancelled. Do not come along for my workshop because I will not be there and neither will anyone else.

Art Workers Guild - Table Top Museum Show

I forgot to mention this. Taking place today. I will be exhibiting my 20 year collection of playing cards found on the street.

The Art Workers’ Guild is proud to present the first exhibition of its kind: “The TABLE-TOP MUSEUM SHOW” Bro. Stephen Fowler and his panel of expert Guild Curators including Prue Cooper, George Hardie, Rachael Matthews and Graham Rawle have selected an exciting array of Table Top Museums.
And here they are … James Birch ‘The Museum of Human Hairnets’, Graham Rawle ’52 Pick-Up’, Rebecca Jewell ‘A Cabinet of Feathers’, Jo Volley ‘Pigments & Stains’, Nicholas Cooper ‘British Bricks’, Nigel Grimmer ‘The Gay Doll Museum’, Peter Quinnell ‘Plastic Thimble Roundup’, Tif Hunter – ‘Beards,Bonnets, Bicycle and Bad Boys’, Simon Seddon ‘The Pear-Ovum’, Harriet Cory- Wright ‘Casting Modernity’, Sallyanne Wood ‘Leg Dressings’, Stephen Braque ‘Art from Fire’, Alastair Brotchie ‘Anecdoted Togographies of Chance’, Peyton Skipwith ‘The New Forest Toy Collection’, Mark Pawson ‘Viking Army Noggins’, Theo Wood ‘The Museum of Space Exploration’, George Hardie ‘The Concatenateum’, Antranig Basman ‘Sinclair Treasures of the Eighties’, Caroline Bullock ‘Cottages and Castles’, Tony McSweeney ‘Family Butchers’ Bags’, Michael Marriot ‘Museum of Intelligent Devices’, Richard Wentworth ‘The Sykes-Picot Memoir’.
The one-day exhibition of chosen collections will take place on Sunday 12th October. Entrance will be free, all are welcome and there will be a Pay Bar and a free Tea Party.
Sunday, October 12th  at 2:00pm – 7:30pm. The Art Worker’s Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT

Malicious Damage Colloquium at Southampton

I'm running a collage workshop at an all-day event, held at Southampton Solent University on Thursday October 30th, on the power and influence of collage. My workshop will invite participants to tell me something I don't already know.

I DID NOT KNOW THAT!

The Encyclopaedia of Things I Didn’t Know

 ‘Did you know that emus can’t walk backwards or that Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a belly button? I did. Did you know that Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise; that rabbits can’t vomit; or that Barry Manilow is an anagram of Library Woman? I knew all of those things too. Why don’t you tell me something I don’t already know?’

In his quest to compile a comprehensive encyclopaedia of things he didn’t know, collage artist Graham Rawle invites you to provide him with a fascinating fact to add to his archive. It can come from the world of science, history or nature—or it could be something personal: your father’s hat size, the opening hours of your local Costcutter, or what your Auntie Maureen likes to spread on her toast. From the astounding to the trivial, all of the collected facts will be gathered together in a giant online encyclopaedia, providing a fountain of knowledge to delight and enthral all of humanity.

HOW TO TAKE PART

At the I Did Not Know That! collage workshop, each participant will have access to scissors, glue and an exciting range of magazines containing every word or image he or she might need to create a special collage. Each completed piece of artwork will be photographed for inclusion in an online archive and displayed during the workshop in an ever-expanding wall frieze of little-known facts. Your contribution can play a vital part in building this extraordinary archive: The Encyclopaedia of Things I Didn’t Know. 

More details and list of speakers can be found here. BOOK NOW!

Wizard of Oz Conference - Brighton

I'm going to be talking about my illustrated version of The Wizard of Oz at a conference at the University of Brighton, 21st –22nd November 2014.

The Wizard of Oz and the Cultural Imagination: A Conference celebrating and interrogating 75 years of the MGM Musical' taking place at the University of Brighton, Friday 21 and Saturday 22 November 2014.
The fee includes lunch and refreshments on both days and free entry to the screening of the 'Singalong' Blu-ray version of the film on Friday evening. Sounds like fun, doesn't it? More information can be found here. Booking details are here.