Here’s my official version …


I tell stories through images and text-based works, mixing topical social and political real-life issues, news and events, with my own experiences, views and observations.

My practice spans several art forms, from net art exploring collaboration, networks and generative forms, to live mapping events and printed booklets and prints. I often deals with contentious issues, researched in depth, told with integrity, in an accessible manner. Often I am motivated by a desire to campaign against injustice.

Recent exhibitions include: Pepperton Gallery (2007), South London Artists Showcase (2007); FILE 2007 (Brazil), Takeaway (Science Museum, London, 2005/ 2006); DIWO Festival (HTTP Gallery, London, 2007); Be Very Afraid (BAFTA, London, 2006); Generative Art (Milan, 2005/2006).

Influences include contemporary art, graphic design, net art, political/street art/subvertising, graphic novels, satire, social realist films and political documentary.

But of course this doesn’t really tell the whole picture … here are some recent notes …

** What do I do? **

–> Storytelling, drawing, satire, humour — short stories/ cartoons/ drawings/ art/ documentary/ journalistic
–> Distinctive style, approach, manner and subjects - my brand
–> Political art/ satire/ stories/ fiction+fact mixed/ confrontational/ troublemaking/ activism
–> Well informed and researched - (eg flowcharts/ mindmaps)
–> Aim to reach mass market audiences - wide audience
–> Political satire- visual storyteller/ illustrator/ artist
–> Challenging/ current, journalistic, mind expanding, making complex subjects accessible/ easily understood - reflect on what’s around me -reveal - make trouble for politicians/ rankle public apathy
–> Through my art/ drawings - to contribute to society
–> Technology - explore and invent innovative web based satires - experiments in content/ structure/ format and form - networked stories/ generative art/ collaboration
–> I enjoy the intersection of art, technology, activism and politics - and net art particularly deals with this (why I’m a big fan)
 

** What are my main paths so far (in my career)? **
–> Decision drawings (mind maps, flow charts, stories, current issues), prints mostly
–> Debate drawings (collaborative online) <– online, networked
–> Experimental stories (corrug st, cocklepickers, bassey) <– online, networked
–> Generative drawing tools <– online, networked, prints
–> Networked storytelling - comic strips/ cartoon generators <– online, networked
–> Booklets
–> Radiation mapping - activist performance/ public research/ collaborative
 

** Why am I doing this? **
–> Through my work - to improve the world (naive I know)
–> To make trouble for politicians/ rankle public apathy
–> To express myself creatively in the way I do best, dealing with issues that drive me
–> This is what I do best and am happiest at

** Where does my work belong? Markets? It’s hard to define **
–> political comics/webcomics
–> storytelling - social realist drama/ political drama/ documentary
–> cartoons in art
–> graphical storytelling - political graphics
–> technology/ graphics/ art/ politics/ documentary