It’s almost a year ago now when I got a call from the BBC asking if I’d be interested in being a hand double for a 1930s costume drama, Mapp and Lucia, to be shown at Christmastime 2014. The ‘hand job’ as it became known, would involve standing in for an actress playing an artist
Over the last 12 months I have been wealding chalk and posca pens for some chalkboard signage projects commissioned by the Duke of Yorks and Dukes at Komedia Cinemas in Brighton. The Duke of York’s cinema is the oldest working cinema in the UK and has a beautiful atmosphere with its original brass fittings and
Unseasonal though it is to be talking of Christmas in the Springtime, I was asked by Jump Start Productions to create a poster to celebrate the start of production of their new feature film – ‘Home for Christmas’. These things start early and filming, along with fake snow, will start in April 2014. It’s a
The Duke of York’s Picturehouse in Brighton asked me to make them a fully functioning paper mache Frank Sidebottom head to help promote the new film, ‘Frank’, starring Michael Fassbender, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Dohmnhall Gleeson. I used a beachball as a base and then added layer after layer of newsprint with wallpaper paste to make
