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Spa Songs, Performance of Song Cycle, Brunel Museum, 2018 - (1 minute extract - Bermondsey Motet)

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Spa Songs, Performance of Song Cycle, Brunel Museum, 2018 (1 Minute Extract - Introduction)

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Spa Songs

Song Cycle, 30 minutes, arranged for a performed at the Brunel Museum, 2018

Performers: Alistair Coffey, Rachel Horwood, Sarah Johns, Jenny Moore, Fay Nicolson, Colleen O’Brien, Louise O’Connor.

Videographer: Johnston Sheard

Still Photographer: Alex Rimmer

Commissioned by DKUK

Spa Songs is a song cycle composed in response to the area of Bermondsey in London, home to one of the largest Cluniac monasteries in Europe in the middle ages and then a thriving industrial area before falling into economic decline. I focus on motifs that recur throughout Bermondsey's history and topography; communities of retreat; tidal rhythms of flooding and burning; polyphony and palimpsest.  Bermondsey is built on tidal marsh land and the song cycle takes its name from the underground Spa (now covered) near my home. The image of underground currents that force their way through the cracks acts as a metaphor for impulses that need to emerge, find form and be voiced.

I drew on my experience of the Dalcroze method of music education to teach Spa Songs to a group of performers, incorporating simple movement and costume into the final work.

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OVER AND OVER PURE FORM, Proposal for a radio play, audio work, 2016

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OVER AND OVER PURE FORM

Live performance and edited video documentation, 25 minutes, commissioned by Kunstraum 2016/17

Performers: Jasmin Aldridge, Helen Davison, Fay Nicolson, Lillian Wilkie and Madalina Zaharia. Percussion: Cédric Fauq

Videographer/editor: Johnston Sheard

Additional camera:  Paul Maheke

Still Photographer: Samuel Fouracre

OVER AND OVER PURE FORM is a long form poem activated by gesture and structured by rhythm. The piece formalizes the curriculum of a phantasy Art School, pasting Modernist studio exercises and Post-Modern reflexivity onto a neurotic atmosphere of contemporary neo-liberal demands. I use speech, melodrama, humour and gestural motifs to wrest communication from the grasp of the literal, rational and quantitative - veering towards the surreal, physical, associative and sensual. A Chorus of students take on the forms of the contradictory pedagogical approaches they are subjected to, craving for moments of realization, rupture and resistance.

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PLAY SENSE, Solo Exhibition, workshop and symposium, funded by ACE, commissioned by Gerald Moore Gallery, 2015

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Feast of Fools / Carnival,  acrylic, screen print and cotton thread on canvas, 100 x 100 cm, 2018

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Play Dumb, limited edition screen print, 70 x 50 cm, 2017

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Performance Piece (Fitted Jacket), acrylic, screen print and cotton thread on canvas, dimensions variable, 2017

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Performance Pieces (Blue Jacket) and (Red Waistcoat), acrylic, screenprint and cotton thread on canvas, dimensions variable, 2017

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UN MAKE ME (Routeless), acrylic and screenprint on canvas, 255 x 180 cm, 2016

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UN MAKE ME

Solo Exhibition, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin, 2016

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OV(E)R, acrylic and screenprint on canvas, 100 x 255 cm, 2016

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Jacopo Miliani, Fay Nicolson, Jackson Sprague Frutta, Rome, IT, 2015

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Jacopo Miliani, Fay Nicolson, Jackson Sprague Frutta, Rome, IT, 2015

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OVERWORKED RHYTHM, Screen print and acrylic on canvas, 250 x 180 cm, 2015

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OVER AND OVER PURE FORM

Solo Exhibition, Grand Union, Birmingham, 2015