An artist's practice

I don’t have any good photos from some of the earlier Rock Eisteddfods we did so have taken some screen grabs from a pretty dodgy quality DVD. I think you still get the gist of the performance. This one was called ‘A hellish daydream’ (1989) and featured a sped-up Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody and an opening scene in black and white which turned into colour. Daniel Parkinson made the great glowing devil head.

It was our first foray into the use of scaffolding and from this moment our sets got bigger and bigger until we stopped at five metres high a few years later. This performance was really the beginning of a power production team of students who worked with me for years. Each performance was so different, depending on the interests and expertise of the students working on it.

You can also see the beginnings of the extremes of make up and hair that became a bit of a Cromer statement. This becomes more obvious as we move into the 90s.

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Here’s my latest palette translated into a paisley pattern. The palette was inspired by the one of the cloud photos on my blog page Things that inspire.

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