I am a UK based artist working with unconventional materials and social structures to create new and experimental approaches to art-making.

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During 2011/12 I have been in residence at the Clinical Engineering department at the University of Liverpool – attempting to grow a football from living animal cells.

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Four years ago I founded The Meat Licence Proposal  – an organisation working towards the collaborative development of a new kind of law requiring consumers to have direct engagement with the slaughter of animals before they can purchase meat.

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I completed an AHRC Research Project at Newcastle University’s Culture Lab in 2010 where I proposed and prototyped new kinds of technological ‘interface’ between citizens and the law.

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My work was most recently showcased in January 2012 at Stroom Den Haag, centre for visual arts and architecture, The Hague, where I also presented his newest culinary invention – Black Market Pudding – a traditional blood-sausage made with the blood of a live pig.

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In am a founding member of the artist collective Re-Dock and a custodian of the Open Source Swan Pedalo.

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image left: photo credit Peter Martin

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CV here
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(third person biog here: JOS_3rdpersonbiog )