4th - 10th July 2010: Holmfirth Artweek, Civic Hall, Holmfirth

November 20th and 21st 2009: I will be selling a range of jewellery at Blackburn Christmas Arts Market, come find me to buy that special Christmas Gift!

September 2009: Mc and Mc Jewellery is currently stocked at The Urbis, Manchester and The Platform Gallery, Clitheroe.

'Triple Echo'A printmaking exhibition presenting a wide variety of contemporary printmaking work by staff and students from University of Central Lancashire Preston, Liverpool John Moores University and Wirral Metropolitan University.

Editions Gallery, 16 Cook Street, Liverpool.

2nd April – 18th April

Monday - Friday 9.30 - 5.30 and Saturday 11.00 - 4.00.

13 March - 31 May 2009 Group zine exhibition. FACT, Liverpool, UK, Climate for Change
Features Mothman comic book in the Zine section of Gallery 1

For its first new exhibition of 2009, its UNsustainable year, FACT is proud to present Climate for Change, a unique experiment in activism, engagement and networking, examining the multiple crises affecting the planet – ecological, financial, food and housing. From peak oil to peak credit, Climate for Change seizes the moment, and asks how do we respond?
In Gallery 1, a range of groups will take up residence in an environment created from the leftover building materials from 2008's Capital of Culture year. The networked activities of Merseyside and beyond will become a key part of the experiment, as FACT hands over the keys to the door and becomes a hub for meetings, socials, discussions and workshops, supporting grassroots networks to practise and imagine new models of governance and organising - live in the gallery space. Dealing with topics as diverse as the Transition Town movement to underground nightclubs, Climate for Change speculates that distributed networks who share methods of self-organising are the most important tools we have for responding to sustainability.
Underpinning this action will be a number of artist-led activities. In Gallery 1, New York’s Eyebeam Art and Technology Centre stages its Sustainability Road Show – a series of hands-on workshops and activities that are both playful and social, highlighting Eyebeam's strong media lab culture built around tinkering, hacking, making and doing.
Artist Stefan Szczelkun presents his Survival Scrapbooks. Originally published in the early 1970s, the Survival Scrapbooks are DIY manuals for autonomous living, covering topics from “bio-diesel-making” to “increasing your chi”. Loosely formatted and intended to be re-edited in a pre-internet information-sharing format, the books will form the basis for workshops and discussion in Gallery 1.

UK DIY, Turnpike Gallery, Greater Manchester,
14 February - 25 April 2009
This exhibition explores the emergence of alternative, subversive, political craft taking place across the UK as a new generation reclaim and re-define craft, adding a distinctive tongue-in-cheek edge. Featuring crafts that cross-over with fashion, furniture, science, technology, and music culture, the work of innovative national and international makers will be shown alongside work produced by local communities, online communities and knitting groups across the country. Features Mothman comic book in the Zine section of Gallery

Artist in Residence at UCLan through the Artists Access to Art Colleges program during 2008/2009. Currently developing application of digital imagery to precious metals.

2008 sees the formation of McandMc, a collaborative business venture with Glass Artist Sharon Hanlon (nee McBreen). We are currently refining a range of sterling silver and glass products for retail sale. Visit us at

www.mcandmc.co.uk

and check out our shop

Issue Zero of The Mothman Comic Book, a collaboration between myself and Artists Tony Knox and Katie Hanratty, was put together for the Liverpool Biennial 2008. It is now in circulation and can be picked up for free (crikey, we don't here that too often, eh?)at various venues across Liverpool throughout the Biennial, find it at The Bluecoat Gallery, The View Two Gallery to name but a few. Alternatively, you can download a pdf. version for you to cherish in virtual space at your leisure

here

I will be running a series of Digital Photography workshops with the sixth form at Calder High, Mytholmroyd throughout November and December 2008.

Zerosandones 10th May - 5th June Fairfields Art Centre, Basingstoke