world youth guitar festival 2012

The wonderful folks at the World Youth Guitar Festival, WYGF, have launched the dates and venue for Summer 2013. 

The new website features my portrait photography of participants from the 2011 Cheltenham Festival. 

It is a truly fabulous event for aspiring guitarists 8 - 18 of any ability and includes coaching, ensembles, workshops, classes and much much more.

ade adepitan interview in the observer

My portraits of Ade Adepitan featured this Sunday's The New Review in The Observer. For the full interview see here

a burnish'd throne

A newly devised performance of Shakespeare's Antony & Cleopatra (Act 2 Sc.2) adapted and directed by Ed Viney, was performed outside the newly completed Jubilee Gardens WC Pavilion by Mark Power Architects, on Sunday 1st July 2012.

The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,

Burnt on the water. The poop was beaten gold,

Purple the sails, and so perfumèd that

The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver,

Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made

The water which they beat to follow faster,

As amorous of their strokes. For her own person,

It beggar'd all description: she did lie

In her pavilion—cloth of gold, of tissue—

O'er-picturing that Venus where we see

The fancy outwork nature.

last chance to see ...

the very wonderful dayfour modern love exhibition curated by Fiona Hayes at the printspace on the kingsland road, shoreditch

time for an update

mark power's 'jubiloo'

I have been following the progress of Mark Power's building at Jubilee Garden's on the South Bank, opened by Kate Hoey, MP for Vauxhall on Thursday 24th May. 

It was good to meet the staff who will be managing the super plush public convenience. Kim (pictured on the burnish'd throne) and her colleagues have been recruited from the Waterloo Job Shop and will on site throughout the Jubilee celebrations and beyond.

kim

The launch event was serenaded by a local community choir who had concocted some appropriate lyrics for the building.

 guess the lyric ...

and as it happened - january to may 2012

never where exhibition record

Jan Dunning

Kim Cunningham

Katya de Grunwald

Kelly Hill

Jason Shenai

Millennium Images Gallery