• One small thing I’m doing at Red’s Kingdom is inviting other artists and creative individuals to take up short residences here so I can catch-up with what they’re doing and showcase their work accordingly – older work, new work, and work-in-development.

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  • Throwback Friday #2 Spooklight (2011)

    Back in the Summer of 2011, in the complete darkness of the French countryside, I began my first foray into long exposure photography with an ancient praktica camera, a few torches, an old mosquito net, and an old friend of mine who was willing to stand around in the dark.

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  • Instantaneous Alchemy

    Instantaneous Alchemy

    After another rather formless ‘lock-down day’, we broke cover and went to the woods for a late afternoon trip to see the bluebells and effervescent green froth of early Spring. The rain was soft, likewise the light, and everytime I stopped to take a photograph, my glasses fogged and I couldn’t really see what I…

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  • 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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