• In my previous incarnation as a course leader, it was not unusual for our creative community of students, staff and alumni to come together in the service of some great big extra-curricular project. We’d all have our own work to do and existing deadlines to meet, but somehow the prospect of doing something together -…

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  • Bud Burst

    Bud Burst

    If Willy Wonka was a garden designer, his signature plant would likely be the allium. They’re floral lollipops, perfectly perpendicular and gloriously globose.

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  • Imposter With A Penknife

    Who was it who said a consultant is someone who steals your watch just before they tell you the time?

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  • Rudely Furry Fronds

    Rudely Furry Fronds

    About a million years ago, I studied for a Royal Horticultural Society qualification in general plant and vegetable knowledge. I sat the exam, passed it, then promptly forgot the majority of what I’d learned.

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  • Red & The Chamber of Architects

    Back in October 2019, Red & The Kingdom Of Sound was selected and screened as part of the Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Films Festival. I submitted the animation to the festival on a whim. Nothing about this festival’s remit aligned with classical music or the visualisation of sound, and yet our ‘kingdom of sound’…

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  • Throwback Friday #1 Room II, Red Floor (2015)

    Now I’ve done it. The problem with launching a blog, self-styled as a whirring hub of creative outputs, is the immediate pressure to populate it with an endless supply of whirring creative outputs…

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  • When The Tides Went Down

    Back in the early Summer of 2019, I was invited by friend and filmmaker, Jordan Buckner, to produce his short animated film, When The Tides Went Down, for Screen South and the BBC.

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  • “Keep Watching The Skies”

    It’s been a while, but here I am, returning to the blogging fold. I haven’t been returned to earth after an abduction by benevolent extra-terrestrials, but I have been away. As to what I’m going to show you on here I’m as yet uncertain, but share things I certainly shall.

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