Grassington. Church is part of the community and I am artist in residence of the community festival so when the David Macha, the vicar of Grassington asked if I would read at the Ecunemical service at Read more [...]

Grassington. Today I gave a workshop for fifteen budding Grassington writers and they have decided to start a Grassington Writers Group. In the evening I experience a moving site specific show by Read more [...]

It was dusk. I’d been in the village of Grassington for just ten minutes when sat outside The Devonshire talking to Charlotte I saw over her shoulder up main st outside The Foresters Arms a young Read more [...]

Kings cross at 6.30pm is angry and Euston is seething. They are sister and brother from the wrong side of the tracks, as they like to say. They have a twisted love for each other. And to suffocate their Read more [...]

The thing about being an artist is that some periods are spent alone craving company and other periods are spent in crowds craving privacy. That’s one way of looking at it. The other way is this. Some Read more [...]

The cycle chain slides into the teeth of the cog. Wednesday. East. West. South. North London. I’m standing in The centre of The Angel’s Paperchase looking at fifteen identical 2011 diaries which Read more [...]

(cont..) As I hang the Ozwald Boeteng Kate whispers "always dress well darling. You never know what'll happen? If I die I want the doctor at hospital to fancy the corpse". We step into the brand Read more [...]

Monday Morning. I wake with Gorecki’s Symphony No3 Op.36 in my head because the second movement was inspired by a Jewish girl. She was imprisoned by the Gestapo. Gorecki was moved by the words she Read more [...]

Woke this morning with this thought I clean my teeth and I wash my face… Why can’t I wash my teeth and clean my face?. So I washed my teeth and I cleaned my face. I've spent the weekend in Read more [...]

'Reclaim the streets. Reclaim the streets' Fifty to a hundred white men between the ages of 19 and 40 walk at pace head-on through the pedestrianised streets of Leeds Shopping centre, a gnarl Read more [...]