Images from the setting up to the opening of 'Packet Soup' Exhibition at Savvy Contemporary, Neukölln, Berlin. Setting out to encourage viewers to confront their consumption of plastic in a playful and ironic way. You can also check out the interviews with the artists at www.radioeins.de

Resurgence — "a magazine for people who care about the environment, enjoy reading, relish new ideas and are looking for inspiration on sustainable living". www.resurgence.org
Variables-Patterns used for cover of latest edition.

How much plastic do you swim in every day?! PACKET-SOUP – The international art project of SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin-Neukölln encourages viewers to confront their consumption of plastic in a playful and ironic way.
www.packet-soup.com
www.savvy-contemporary.com
PACKET SOUP: facebook

"Coming soon to East Kent...packed with the best arts and cultural events, opinion and photo stories, lifestyle, food, property and great days out. Pick up your free copy from April 16 at more discerning retail outlets in town (that’s Canterbury, Faversham, Whitstable, Margate, Broadstairs, Ramsgate, Sandwich, Deal and Folkestone)" Or download a digital version from their website soon. www.the-weekender.net

In December Surfers Against Sewage asked me to come up with some T-shirt designs for them, the 'Message in a Bottle' design (below left) is the first one to go to print. Available now from their website - and it comes with my Limited Edition Postcard '13 Marine Plastic Bottles',(below right)

I have been commissioned by the B-side Festival and PVA MediaLab to create an array of sound sculptures to be exhibited throughout the Maritime Mix 2012 Cultural Olympiad at Weymouth and Portland in Dorset from July to August. More information, images and updates on my trips to collect sounds of the area can be found here B-sideArray.blogspot.com/

20 mins into the Null+Void mix from electronic duo Lakker you will hear sounds from my Siren Signal installation of summer 2011, darkly mixed and blended by the increasing popular Dublin based dance partnership.

From Saturday 14 January – Sunday 25 March, The Whitley Cup will be at the Reading Museum. Premiered in the living room of a Whitley resident during the Whitley Arts Festival, see the work take on new meaning in the museum.Visit www.readingmuseum.org.uk for more info

The sounds i created for Siren Signal and the International lighthouse relay will be aired on Free103.9fm in Nwe York this Jan. visit their website for more details. www.free103point9.org

Whitley Cup for the Whitley Arts Festival Trail

The Whitley Cup (Handle and Strapping)
Grave-goods (2200-1500 BC).

The handle and relating strapping from what is now known as The Whitley Cup, thought to have belonged to 'The Wessex Culture' of the Early Bronze Age.

Found in 1986 by school boy H Fury amongst a pile of stones and rubble (possible cairn and secondary burial site), near an unconfirmed yet documented Bronze Age barrow 1 km South of Reading in the Whitley area.

Present is the handle and strapping hand crafted in the design of a Sea-Wyvern (a winged and fish-tailed reptilian creature of legend), reconstructed around a plaster reproduction of a traditional ceramic handled ceremonial cup. Such drinking vessels as in the case of The Whitley Cup were objects of status amongst Bronze Age warriors and would have been used almost certainly for the drinking of alcohol, probably beer or mead.

The Whitley Cup pieces have been remarkably crafted from a little known resinous compound (Arbor Creta Putty), which when hard has a similar consistency to that of modern plastics. WASL document it as being created by mixing heated tree resins with powdered chalk and bone ash. This creates a malleable paste or putty that can be moulded over a former and worked until it cools and hardens, with further possibilities for carving detail.

WASL - © Wessex Archaeological Society Limited 2011 all rights reserved

Wessex Archaeological Society is a Registered Charity No. 6932091514

I have been invited to exhibit at Savvy Contemporary during May of next year, in the exhibition Packet-Soup. An exhibition of work questioning the consumption and problems of plastic use. Will keep you posted on any updates.

A bit late, but better than never! Article about my marine plastic collecting and documenting. Also a nod to www.marineplastic.org in issue 2 of the art and writing publication Rattle Journal. Buy from them or from various outlets listed on their site.(Click the images below to enlarge)

My work will be with Wills Art Warehouse stand, at Affordable Art Fair Hampstead London.

Surfers Against Sewage asked me to design their 2011 Christmas Cards. So I plundered my constantly growing collection of plastic objects from the UK coast to come up with the four designs below. Now available from the SAS online shop and other discerning outlets elsewhere.

SAS have put an environmental campaign message on the back of the card about marine pollution so you can spread the word this Christmas! Pack of 8 A6 sized cards with white recycled envelopes, 2 of each design. The cards are 100% post consumer waste recycled card = £3.50. Bargain!

The trail takes in five locations that meander through the streets of Whitley, South Reading, starting in Litton Road and ending up in Dawlish Road. Rather than public buildings, or artists' homes, the artwork will be on show in everyday houses - the homes of ordinary people. Residents of Whitley have volunteered for their homes to become galleries for the night, to allow friends, neighbours and art lovers in to see some highly prized works of art.

Friday 28th October 2011.
Litton Road, Whitley
5pm - 9pm. Free

See Whitley Arts Trail for more