Catalogue
Southport Weekender Archive
I have been dancing, - and drawing The Dance - live at Southport Weekender since I first visited at it’s original location at Pontins, Southport in year 2000, through the Minehead Butlins years, to it’s current location at Butlins, Bognor Regis (via it’s satelite festival Suncebeat in Croatia). That’s 23 years of drawing/painting live on location in real time. What began as a bunch of ‘live art’ experimental drawings has been transformed by the project’s longevity into a robust visual archive evoking the spirit of the musical-dancikal event whilst also marking and celebrating it’s persistence and development.
Portrait Of Giles Peterson At Bar Rhumba
Commissioned by Mialy Rama and Ben Brophy. Charcoal and grey-tone chalk pastel on Canson Paper. 75cm x 55cm. Made with ref. to a portrait photograph supplied by Gilles which had a boring grey brick background. I substituted this for a 'clubscape' freeze of my invention, informed by 'live' drawings made at Giles' 'This' club night at Bar Rhumba (2004-2007)
