Cells
We lived on berries,
rabbits, thaw-water, the month
of the explosions.
Chris Jones collaborated with Paul Evans on a series of watercolours entitled 'Cells'.
Chris wrote haikus to go along with the paintings. The work was shown
at the
Cupola
Art Gallery, Sheffield, though there are plans for the exhibition to go to other
galleries in the future. Art Critic Robert Clark in The Guardian has written of this
exhibition:
'One set of works on show here is based on dramatic
images of waterfalls formed
by melting glaciers at the end of the last ice age. Colour is shoved around here with
aplomb. Another set is microscopic improvisations, quivering with spidery scratchings and
accompanied by Chris Jones' succinct poetic fragments: "The ultrasound gleans/rib-light
and coral fingers;/your heart a quick fish." Together they manage to make a show that
suggests a concern for the environmental crisis combined with a celebration of the precious
vulnerability of human passion.'
Lost
In autumn 2006 I worked in collaboration with a digital artist and arts organisation
with the view of putting up a piece of art in the Millennium Galleries, Sheffield.
I created a visual poem with Lovebytes Digital Arts and the Dutch Graphic Design
studio
Renascent: my poem 'Lost' was
transformed into a film that highlighted animation,
reflection and typography, and was shown on the three plasma screens in the foyer
of the Millennium Galleries from Friday 6th October to Sunday 7th January. The piece
can be seen on Renascent's website in the form of
a movie.
This piece is part of a larger sequence entitled
A Museum of Work.
Listen to the entire sequence in my podcast.
Inky Fish Poets
I appeared in a number of readings with colleagues who form the collective
Inky Fish Poets.
Most of the readings took place in the East Midlands from October to December 2006. The group
continues to look for readings as a collective enterprise.
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