I was trained in Psychology and Philosophy at St Andrew's University before going on to work as a writer and journalist on music and arts whose involvements included The Independent, Sunday Telegraph, Gramophone, BBC Music, books, PR projects and several TV films.
But I'd also been trained professionally as a visual artist and photographer at Sunderland Polytechnic. In recent years I've been won over by the magical potential of digital imaging and its capacity to transform the commonplace, to blur the distinctions between illusion and reality. Above all, since 1995, my experience of depression has found a therapeutic and cathartic outlet through my work as a poet and multimedia artist whose passions still include the making of short and innovative or experimental films.
What else? I take pleasure in responding to the challenge of new commissions - as well as discussing ideas for fresh projects or collaborations with other, like-minded people.
Of interest to me, finally, is the potential of the Internet to create an opportunity to make pictures and words work together in new ways – interacting with each other as well as with what’s surely too passively called, “the audience”. I feel a bit concerned about tightening restrictions on what the orthodox media and publishing worlds seem able now to conceive. One possibility for the future, maybe, lies elsewhere?
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Size: 12.00" x 16.00"
Price: £99.00
