Artist & Video Maker based in Liverpool
I’m part of the Men Dancing group started by Chris Ball and Jen Hale in 2017. We’ve been looking at ways to translate dance ideas into film, tricky to develop collectively as a group but we’ve made a great start here with Crossing The Bar. Full film available soon.
A film collaboration with Lou Chapelle. Through a series of creative workshops,local creative practitioners and young people who live and study in Halton created costumes, dance, poetry, and sound. Together they re-imagined the Bleach Packers, iconic workers from the borough’s past, by creating a holographic video. The resulting artwork enacts a surreal Bleach Packer’s dream, in which he finds himself transformed, torn between chemical and nature. The work was displayed in different public settings around the borough.
Rehearsed over Zoom and filmed on Saturday 5th December 2020 in one day around central Liverpool locations. A collaboration with Movema and Unlock The Box.
I collaborated with MDI’s group for over 50s, Men! Dancing! last year to create a video work, filmed on location at Liverpool Cathedral. The film was funded by HOP (Happy Older People) and explores the idea of harmony and the workers who built the cathedral.
Screened for the first time this year at the first HOP gathering of 2020 at FACT in Liverpool you can now see the film below. I’m hoping to continue working with the group, exploring dance in alternative spaces in future projects, with the idea of taking back our public spaces as we age.
A short film I made about Corali and Thick & Tight: reflections on collaboration, queer culture and equality.