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The Lost Property Office was featured on BBC Manchester's Arts & Culture website »
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"A gentle meander through Manchester’s backstreets, shining a searchlight on its forgotten inhabitants."
Time-worn furniture put out to pasture, surplus to requirements. Wheelie-bins fighting to be the bin man’s first choice; a weary old sofa with more tall-stories to tell than a trawler boat captain. The subjects are photographed in their natural habitats and shown the respect they deserve.
The accompanying map shows the location of each of these characters, encouraging the viewer to seek out these dishevelled outcasts and perhaps make a pilgrimage of their own."
South Manchester is a varied, interesting place. Areas like Chorlton and West Didsbury find themselves becoming gentrified almost without the locals noticing.
Zoë and I wanted to show the slightly grubbier, more characterful side of Manchester's leafy suburbs, to counteract the sanitised, pseudo-bohemian attitude that seems to be on the rise. After all, for every Danté and Jocasta being bundled out of a Range Rover at ballet class there are at least three upside down shopping trolleys and a melted wheelie-bin. For every expensive delicatessen there are several charity shops, and if you see a young man with Bob Dylan hair and tight jeans you will almost certainly see two old ladies wearing Reebok Classics and rain hoods.
That bloody map was a ridiculous idea though. It took so long to get all the strings attached and in the right places that I was still sitting with a pile of pins, string and picture frames about half an hour before it was due to go on the wall at The Art of Tea.
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Exhibitions & Installations.
September 2009:
Le Boulevard de Banni
At: Common, Edge Street, Manchester
Another joint show with Zoë Byrne. For this exhibition we dumped the canvas and paper, instead painting directly on to the walls of this bar in Manchester's Northern Quarter.
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August 2009:
The Lost Property Office
At: The Art of Tea, Manchester
Joint exhibition with photographer Zoë Byrne.
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February 2009:
The Master of Complications
At: The Art of Tea, Manchester
Joint exhibition with photographer Zoë Byrne.
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October 2008
The Master of Complications
At: Almiro Gallery, Waterloo, Liverpool
Joint exhibition and book launch with photographer Zoë Byrne. A bit of a departure from my usual style, and my first venture into a more installation-based show.
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September 2007
Last Stand
At: Blackburne House, Liverpool
Photographs and abstract paintings reflecting the changing nature of Liverpool's Jamaica Street area.
July 2007
The Road to Rhyl
At: Almiro Gallery, Waterloo, Liverpool
Photography and paintings focusing on a journey through the industrial areas of North Wales. Cheerful, I know.
Featured on Art in Liverpool »
March 2006
Solo Show
At: Almiro Gallery, Waterloo, Liverpool
My first solo show. It went very well and I got a few commissions from it. Gave me a lot of confidence in my work.
Oct. 2005
Group Show
At: Almiro Gallery, Waterloo, Liverpool
I had a couple of paintings in the opening show for our gallery in Waterloo.
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July 2004
Joint Show
At: The Kif, Parr Street, Liverpool
Joint exhibition with one of my oldest friends, the brilliant abstract artist Eric Orme.
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