An Evening of Art and Music

20th May 2016

at The Maison Dieu, High Street, Dover CT16 1DL

More info:  inspirationdover.dadonline.eu

Exhibition from 5pm. Concert at 8pm. Cafe & bar.

Tickets £10: inspirationdover.eventbrite.co.uk and Dover Visitor Centre, Market Square

Nicole Mollett has created a folded drawing entitled ‘They Also Shall Return’ for the St. Margaret’s Museum. The work is a visual social anthropological map of the community who lived in the village during the War. The prominent feature of the drawing is the faces of people taken from the photographic archive; the soldiers, their families, the parish council and volunteers. A range of individuals both heroic and humble. The portraits are woven together with fragments of images from the frontline, The War illustrated magazine and St. Margarets Village.

Performance Day: 16 April
at The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge

11.30am   Barnyard Productions
12.30pm   Nicole Mollett
1.30pm   Jeremy Brooker & Richard Navarro
2.30pm   Louisa Fairclough
3.30pm   Ben Judd

As part of the exhibition Stories in the Dark, curated by Ben Judd and co-commissioned by Whitstable Biennale and the Beaney, we are pleased to present an afternoon of performances on Saturday 16 April. All of the performers either use Victorian magic lanterns or their direct descendants, such as 16mm film or digital projectors. Performances are suitable for all ages.

Barnyard Productions
How We Need it to Be: an intriguing, eclectic performance, involving both literal and psychological projections. The actors use projection of 16mm film in their exploration of the projections we make onto other people every day, including those of audience upon actors and actors upon audience. The result is a composite of brief scenarios of mystery, pathos, and humour. Book your free place here

Nicole Mollett
Nicole Mollett will present The Lanternist’s Progress, an uncanny journey though the English countryside. Also presented is the Miniature Magic Lantern Show, a peep show performance including the use of toy magic lanterns – a table-top experience for two!

Jeremy Brooker and Richard Navarro
Lamplighters: a unique collaboration between magic lanternist Jeremy Brooker and singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Richard Navarro which delivers an extraordinary live show to fire the senses and stir the imagination. Brooker is a master of the magic lantern, presenting his own prepared slides alongside beautiful and spectacular images drawn from his collection of historical material. Folk-inspired singer and songwriter Navarro juggles violin, trumpet, piano and percussion to bring to life his original songs in performances that sparkle with wit and creativity. Book your free place here

Louisa Fairclough
Transfixed by an Image: an incantation for two singers in a stairwell. Devised with composer Richard Glover, the choral performance draws upon various source material including Fairclough’s deceased sister’s sketchbooks. The performers visualise an image in the mind’s eye which sets the rhythm.

Ben Judd
Judd’s performance Apart, We are Together references the ‘pose slide’ genre of magic lantern projections, developed in the late 19th century. Using three Victorian magic lanterns, images are projected directly onto performers, gradually suggesting a shift from disconnected to synchronised, from individual to collective. Book your free place here

The People Come First, watercolour 2016

Part of ‘More Than 100 Stories’ commission.

Close up of the maps completed for Curiocity & Penguin. Book Launch to be announced in London, August 2016.

Really proud to have my drawing on the cover of the Creative People and Places shared learning paper;

http://www.creativepeopleplaces.org.uk/our-learning/building-whilst-flying

‘More Than 100 Stories’, postcard designs for Themes December 2015.

Here is some of the drawings for my new project, an ongoing research into CPP, with Sarah Butler.

Go to http://www.creativepeopleplaces.org.uk/100-stories-blog for more information.

‘Carrying Others’

Watercolour on paper, 2015

‘The Influencer’

Watercolour on paper, 2015

Art Car Bootfair

12-4pm Sunday 30th August 2015
At Turner Contemporary, Rendezvous, Margate

The Kent Baton is going to the Art Car Bootfair in Margate. There will be a menagerie of seaside subversion including;

Tracey Emin & Emin International  · Gavin Turk · Vic Reeves and Michael Hogben · Rachel Howard · True Rocks· Holly Allan· Jessica Albarn · Camile Phoenix · Lizzy Rose & Kate Hare · Crate including Charley Vine and Leigh Clarke · Limbo including Paul Hazelton, David Price, Tessa Farmer, Steve McPherson, Tasha Marks (AVM Curiosities), Sarah Wicks, Sarah Craske and Katie Welsford · Resort including Dan Chilcott , Charlie Evarist Boyce, Crowther/Plant, Jo Elbourne and Jason Pay, Kate Harrison, Steve Ibb, Nick Morley,  Heidi Plant, Julia Riddiough, Sara Wicks, Rachel Wilberforce, Leise Wilson and Angeli Yara · Bon Volk Studios · Tinsel Edwards and Twinkle Troughton · Nicole Mollett and the Kent Cultural Baton · Tom Thumb Theatre and Jessica Jordan-Wrench · BeDRAGgled from Amy Redmond / SINK The PINK · Sir Peter Blake  (TBC) · Soul Fast Food · Kristjana S Williams · Moniker Projects · Turps Painters · Bumble and Earwig · Alice Herrick & KEELERTORNERO · Hantverk & Found with C.A.Halpin, Angela Frederico, Tom Swift, Jason Pay, Sam Zine · Alteria Art · Binnie Sisters · Wilma Johnston · Silvia Ziranek · Dolores De Sade · Marty Thornton · Art on a Postcard with Rankin, Robert James Clarke, Ray Richardson, Dougie Wallace, Hayden Kays, Cosmo Sarsen, Margo Bowman and Benjamin Murphy for the Hepatitis C Trust  · David J Batchelor · Frances Richardson · Jake Clarke · Kate Knight · Joseph Gibson · The Juncture ·Andrew Cunningham · Cultivate feat. Sean Worrell, Emma Harvey, Quiet British Accent and Julia Maddison · Dylans Mobile Book Store · Francis Thornburn· Swifty ·Lucy Soni · Jealous Gallery · Club Shepway · Paul Sakoilsky · Mark Jones · X-ray Fog – Ian Dawson and The Copy Shop

Richard Strange’s Cabaret Futura presents the Daylight Cabaret/ Margate Edition! Including: Johnny Brown and the Holy Joy Scrap and Salvage Movement, Kria, RayGun, Otis Coulter and Orlando Seale and the Swell.

Monsters, Maps and Myths

24^th July – 31^st August 2015

Rose St Cottage of Curiosity, Sheerness

Julie Bradshaw, Amy Curtis, Gen Doy, Laurie Harpum, Tass Haig, Sharon Hendy, Matthew Herring, Sarah King, Beth Lanning Cheryl Logan, Victoria Mc Bride, Nicole Mollett, Frog Morris, Clarissa Porta, Nadja Gabriela Plein, Lauren Stupple, Mark Sosbe, Amanda Thesiger, Sara Trillo, Jeanine Woollard

Some of the research postcards for the CPP commission ‘ More than a Hundred Stories’.

I am taking part in the PRESS ROOM project for the Venice Biennale 2015.

PRESS ROOM is a temporary community that will come together for an intensive period of dialogue and creative investigation over the period of the Venice Biennale preview week. Inspired by the stage-like qualities and meditative aura of the official press room at the 2013 Biennale, PRESS ROOM will mirror the structures and activities of the 2015 Biennale’s official preview week, to establish an experimental press, questioning through conceptual briefs and artistic acts how information is constructed and disseminated.

All briefs and responses will be broadcast on social media, via the PRESS ROOM twitter account @pressroomvenice and published on pressroom.org.uk/