
[caption id="attachment_399" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo credit Mike Quinn (Creative Commons Licence)[/caption]
8,000 years ago in the North East. As the ice melts and the shape of the land shifts before their ...
After the Ice
Scriptwriting

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I was recently commissioned to work with groups of knitters from Gateshead, who between them knitted 1700 poppies to ...
Body of Water, Body of Men
Visual Art and Exhibitions

Cover Story is the outcome of the open participatory workshop at Gateshead Central Library on Saturday 7th March 2015 for the Creative Makings celebratory ...
Creative Makings
Visual Art and Exhibitions

1907 illustration by Oliver Herford of Wendy and the Lost Boys. Public domain (OH died 1935). This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) ...
The Wendy House
Scriptwriting

Guildhall & Newcastle skyline from Tyne Bridge (geograph 2748860) by Andrew Curtis. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org
In 2014 I was involved in writing The Witches of ...
The Witches of Newcastle
Scriptwriting

Paper & Print, The Hearth, Horsley: 26th & 27th April 2014
Books as Medicine
A new piece of book art created for artists’ collective Book Apothecary was included in this exhibition. Entitled ...
Books as Medicine at Paper & Print
Visual Art and Exhibitions

Displaced: International Book Art Competition Exhibition, Wiener Library, London: 6th March - 17th April 2014
'Displaced' Book Art Exhibition Invitation
A book art work entitled ‘Binding: The Displacement of Guilt ...
Displaced: International Book Art Competition Exhibition
Visual Art and Exhibitions

Image by Simon Harriyott from Uckfield, England
On the final day of September 2013 I was one of seven writers selected to take part in September at Bolton Octagon, which the theatre described as 'One of the ...
September
Scriptwriting

Dear Angel, Lindisfarne Gospels Gallery, Durham: 10th August – 6th September 2013
Lindisfarne Letters. Photo credit Colin Davison
As a commissioned artist for the Dear Angel project, I worked with ...
Lindisfarne Letters at Dear Angel Exhibition
Visual Art and Exhibitions

Novel, The Gallery, Gateshead Central Library: 1st June – 17th August 2013
Needle Book
A new piece of book art work entitled Read What You Sew was created in collaboration with visual artist Yvette Hawkins and ...
Novel Exhibition
Visual Art and Exhibitions

Digging Up the Dead Launch Flyer
Individual poems have been published in magazines (Mslexia, Other Poetry, Smoke), online (Ink, Sweat and Tears, Diamond Twig) and in anthologies (Newcastle Masters, Out of Order). My first ...
Publications
Poetry

Image by Selma Broeder
The Swing, a ten minute play inspired by a Don Paterson poem, was performed as a rehearsed reading at Live Theatre's last ever Short Cuts in June 2012. Written for the theme COUP DE THEATRE it was ...