A wonderful series of road safety videos and prints for the Department of Transport devised by Smith and Foulkes at Nexus and Leo Burnett; I had the great pleasure of working with them helping design the font in the titles. It was a brilliant experience, and I'm chuffed to bits with the outcome
Client: Department for Transport
Title: ‘The Boy Who Didn't Stop Look and Listen’
Length: 1 x 40″
Production Company: Nexus Productions
Director: Smith & Foulkes
Executive Producers: Chris O’Reilly and Charlotte Bavasso
Head of Production: Julia Parfitt
Producer: Melody Sylvester
Production Assistant: Denise Abraham
Character Designer: Mustashrik Mahbub
Project Lead: Mark Davies
Gaggle is a 23 piece all female choir. We're currently working on our album, an opera, world domination and maybe a dating website. Or a chocolate shop. Or even government strategy. I currently work designing the artwork and merchandise along with Honey, also in the choir.
Working with the Open Music Archive, We were tasked with re-inventing part of the score of 'The Brilliant And The Dark', a 1969 opera performed in the Royal Albert Hall by 1000 female voices. Costumes originally made by teh WI were also re-imagined for us by Honey and Schwa from the choir. This is what OMA have to say about it...
The video takes as a starting point The Brilliant and the Dark, a cantata for women’s voices composed by Malcolm Williamson and Ursula Vaughan Williams, and first performed by 1,000 women volunteers at the Royal Albert Hall in 1969. The libretto approaches history from the Middle Ages to WWII through the eyes of women, via characters including witch-hunters, embroiderers, crusaders’ wives, plague stricken women, mourners and war workers.
Simpson and White have negotiated with music publishers Josef Weinberger for permission to use elements from the work and invited the all-women choir Gaggle to remix the music and lyrics of the original composition for a new music video. Filmed on location in The Women's Library exhibition hall, the video re-animates the 1969 performance through restaging situations – from the backstage preparations, to choreographed moments in the live event – which are documented in photographs held in the Library’s collection. The performers are seen in new costumes referencing the originals and amidst remade props.
The video is released under a copyleft license – generating a new resource available for the future.
Series of wooden icons I created for the One Foot in the Grove exhibition by Mutate Britain in Ladbrooke Grove, London, December 2009.
I work with a group of female artists called House of Doll on work based around the strength of women working in numbers... I liked the idea of these icons featuring nameless and non famous women, a little celebration of the ordinary.
Part One of the Sessun project working for Carolina Melis.
Commissioned by Emma Francois for her Marseille-based fashion label, Sessun, Carolina designed and created two window displays for the new Paris flagship store.
I worked with her to create over 100 individual butterflies from antique paper, fly-fishing feather and weights and haberdashery accoutrements to hang, invisibly from a wooden frame for the front window.
Carolina explains it thus
"The original idea was to create something that had a melancholic, poetic and ephemeral tone. A piece of work that reflected the sense of waiting and having to witness the world passing by in front of a window...They are not just decorative ornaments but it feels as each of them carries a story and a dream."
