Free For Arts Festival.

I worked on a collaborative installation this september with Lois Macdonald for the Free for Arts Festival that she had organised and slaved over. We had this slightly strange space to work in within the AMC cinema lobby in Manchester's Great Northern. We knew that we wanted to create something sculptural, something to fill this glass case and that would be accessible as a piece of fantasy or escapism. Animal forms and habits have always informed my work performatively and this time the installation took them on as well. Me and Lois both liked the idea of habitation and hibernation and so we decided to place these ambiguous animal/human characters in their own hibernation caves, we left it open for interpretation so people will think heavily about the narrative with little prompting. I think this is the first instance of my work involving narrative, a theme that im beginning to become more engaged with.