Artist & Video Maker based in Liverpool
I’m part of the Men Dancing group started by Chris Ball and Jen Hale in 2017. We’ve been looking at ways to translate dance ideas into film, tricky to develop collectively as a group but we’ve made a great start here with Crossing The Bar. Full film available soon.
Excited to say that I’ve won first place in the LCR Photo Awards 2023. I submitted 5 photographs around the theme of coastal communities and the climate crisis and 3 of them have been chosen for exhibition which opens tomorrow and runs until 23rd April. There were 1900 entries, so I’m pretty chuffed to have won the analogue category.
More information ban be found on the Open Eye’s website here.CR23
Rehearsed over Zoom and filmed on Saturday 5th December 2020 in one day around central Liverpool locations. A collaboration with Movema and Unlock The Box.
I made this trailer in a day recently working with Rainbow Noir running around the city to celebrate the launch of Homotopia Festival 2020.
The annual across the mersey swim took place yesterday. There’s only a 45 minute window to get over before the tide changes so it’s an amazing achievement for all those that completed it.
We filmed it last year from different perspectives start to finish. I might attempt it one day myself.
I collaborated with MDI’s group for over 50s, Men! Dancing! last year to create a video work, filmed on location at Liverpool Cathedral. The film was funded by HOP (Happy Older People) and explores the idea of harmony and the workers who built the cathedral.
Screened for the first time this year at the first HOP gathering of 2020 at FACT in Liverpool you can now see the film below. I’m hoping to continue working with the group, exploring dance in alternative spaces in future projects, with the idea of taking back our public spaces as we age.
A new body go work by U.S born artist Alexis Teplin premiered at the Bluecoat in Liverpool in October 2019 in her first major UK exhibition.
I worked with Alexis to create the film ‘The Workers’ which was exhibited as part of the exhibition. Alexis wanted to document the creation of a large wall mural, treating the workers as performing artists and we achieved this over two days using clean jump cuts to show the passage of time.
Proud to be part of this short Dead Pigeon gallery exhibition with Homebaked CLT this last week.
I’ve been involved with Homebaked on and off for around 10 years now and watched it grow from an artistic idea to full grown community concern.
Jayne Lawless from the Dead Pigeon Gallery asked me if I would want to be part of a collection of artists who have all been connected somehow with Homebaked at some point towards an exhibition around the theme of ‘Home’ to be put together in an empty terraced house just down the road from the bakery.
The whole terrace will start refurbishment next year by Homebaked CLT after a successful bid to Liverpool City Council to bring the terrace back to life, transforming it into nine quality homes with affordable rents. More about that here.
Having looked around the empty tinned up house, I came up with the idea to install a video projection in the cupboard under the stairs showing different entrances to the River Mersey. It plays with the concept of how being in the water immediately connects us to the environment, nature and our place in the world. I also liked (given it’s location) the element of surprise and the possibility of entering other worlds.
All the artists included in this show (including opening night performances) have worked with or connected via both Homebaked CLT and the Homebaked Community Bakery, some have been bakers, board members, managers, counter assistants, highlighting the value of having artists on board at whatever level.
The exhibition is installed until December and can be accessed by contacted Jayne at Dead Pigeon Gallery. Details on the flyer at the top of the page.
Some press about the exhibition is below
Sunrise, Sunset from Tim Brunsden on Vimeo.
Filmed on the 20th June this year – the longest day, Sunrise to Sunset,
A short film I made about Corali and Thick & Tight: reflections on collaboration, queer culture and equality.