I make Artist's Books and Zines:
I use the names 'Damp Flat Books' and 'FutureFantasteek'. Many of my books and zines are held in permanent collections such as the V&A Museum, Tate Britain, the British Library, the Getty Institute in Los Angeles, the Joan Flasch Collection, Chicago and The Met in New York.
Many of the themes I enjoy working with are anxiety, satire and modern living. I have attended conferences internationally to present my artist's books and to talk about art-zines and illustration.
MA Illustration Course Leader: This course is focussed on socially aware projects that question our place in the world. I also supervise PhD students within Art and Design (specialism Artists' Books, Zines, Illustration).
Projects
- Future Fantasteek! No.20 'Commuting'Softback zine laser printed in colour on white paper. A5 size with 16 printed pages, saddle-stitched. Yellow cover, laser-printed in colour with multi-lens transparent cover. Brighton, October 2019, edition size of 30. All numbered, signed and embossed with maker's mark. ISSN 2399-3022 (Online) www.futurefantasteek.com This issue (from the Before-Times) is all about the joys of commuting. Drawing on the train over photos taken from my journey to work as a way of not-wasting-time. The text is th
- Piano LessonsArtist's Book. 16cm x 15cm artist’s book. Clothbound cover in red or blue with rubber-stamped hand and tied with two-colour twine. Inside covers are lined with vintage sheet music. Inside consists of a removable double-sided concertina of pianola-roll paper folded into 8 to make 16 pages. The concertina is 48” long, the length of a standard piano keyboard. The title and imagery are created by hand-cut rubber stamps, printed in red and blue. Embossed with maker’s mark and signed and numbered. Bri
Projects credited in
- University of Portsmouth, BA(Hons) IllustrationThis year we celebrate not only the creative practice of our 2020 graduates but also the commitment, tenacity and professionalism that enabled them to respond with such positivity to the global pandemic and the challenges it brought. The course encourages students to consider the role and responsibility of an illustrator, with reference to authorial practice and social issues; the emphasis on research informs the content and specialism of their visual practice. The work of our graduates empl25
- Graduate Show 2020This year we celebrate not only the creative practice of our 2020 graduates but also the commitment, tenacity and professionalism that enabled them to respond with such positivity to the global pandemic and the challenges it brought. The course encourages students to consider the role and responsibility of an illustrator, with reference to authorial practice and social issues; the emphasis on research informs the content and specialism of their visual practice. The work of our graduates empl10
Work history
Senior LecturerUniversity of Portsmouth
Portsmouth, United KingdomPart Time
Course Leader for MA Illustration.
Tutor for BA Illustration.
Supervisor for PhD students.
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Visiting LecturerUniversity of the Creative Arts, Farnham
- Farnham, United KingdomFreelance
Guest lecturer in Artists' Books and Zines.
Visiting tutor for MA Illustration
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Skills
- Adobe Photoshop
- Lecturing
- Comic Illustration
- Zine Design
- Design Research
- Narrative Illustration
- Drawing Sketching
- Reasearch
- Research Visualisation
- Blog Illustration
Education
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PhDThe University of Brighton
- Brighton, United Kingdom
PhD BY PRACTICE: THE SAFE CIGARETTE
'The Safe Cigarette'
My thesis presented a series of Artist’s Books and Multiples of graphic expressions of anxiety, each informed by a comparative study presented as a sequence of Volumes of the visual strategies used to advertise cigarettes in America in mass-circulation magazines between 1945 and 1964. The thesis was presented as a boxed object containing the eight Volumes (also produced as handmade books), with Gatefolds and 9 Artist’s books and Multiples. The thesis identifies specific design and illustration solutions in cigarette advertising such as considerations of artwork, photography, layout, typography, characterisation, and diagrammatic representation of process. The conclusions are then used as the basis for 9 books and multiples in which I explore, within my own artwork, the dynamics of visual instruction, and the devices for reassuring the anxious consumer using irony and humour throughout.
You can read the whole damn thing (yes, the whole thing) here:
http://thesafecigarette.blogspot.com