1968 Born Strood, Kent
1979-86 Rede Secondary School
1986 Left school. Total employment: four months in a warehouse,
two days in a butcher’s shop and half-an-hour in a frozen shepherd’s
pie factory.Played drums for several different rock and roll bands,
including:
1986-88 The Daggermen
1988-90 The James Taylor Quartet
1990-95 The Prime Movers
Currently The Solar Flares and The Buff Medways
1993 Started painting with oils and writing poetry
1998 Doledrums poetry book published (other poetry books:
My Vacation in Life
2001, Pinhole Poetry 2003). Also performed poetry.
1999 A founder member of the Stuckists art group
Included in over 20 exhibitions in this country and internationally
2000 Included in The Stuckists book (Victoria Press)
2002 Started taking pinhole photographs
2003 Pinhole photos of Billy Childish commissioned for poetry book
Other activities include super 8 cine film making and buying hats.
The best aspect of pinhole photography is its simplicity. The camera will
take a basic, honest portrait of whatever you point it at. For example,
if the subject is a lemon or a tree, you will be hard –pushed to tell
whether the photograph was taken recently or before the camera lens
was ever invented. I print my own photos from the negatives in a small
darkroom in my bathroom.
