ABOUT ME

I'm an artist (oral history, "hidden" histories, photography, found objects, sound installation, narrative research, autoethnography, lalalala). I live in Todmorden, but I work all over the place and seem to spend me life on a train :-)

PHILOSOPHY

I've always tried to avoid having one. Umm - either tell the truth, or remember what lies you've told?

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

mostly hosting at the mo

Interests

ermmm... lemme see... I like cooking; yoga; singing; train journeys; poking about in a garden or allotment; allkindsa music from English folk, to electroacoustic, to Cuban son, to old punk; playing bata and other Cuban percussion; poetry; galleries/film/theatre/general artfart stuff; daft conversation... you getting a picture yet?

• poetry
• singing
• photography
• cooking
• yoga
• gardening
• music
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

1930s wisecrackin screwball comedies; old encyclopedias and dictionaries; Anne Briggs; Olivier Messaien; ghost stories; old oral history recordings; Tristan Tzara; Verb T; Edith Sitwell; John Clare; JD Salinger; Terry Pratchett; the dawn chorus; Augusto Boal; circuses (oh, and bread, obviously. Erm, and roses.)