Prints and Posters

After graduating I realised that the social aspect of art was more important to me than the “art scene”. I didn’t want to go straight into teaching but little did I realise what a journey it would turn out to be.

Theatre
Award-winning poster at the Edinburgh Fringe for Red Shift Theatre Co. The blank area on the table was for venue overprints
For ten years or so I did all the posters for the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch. Many of them I don’t have copies of any more. Most were hand printed screenprints in editions of 500, in a double crown format for Landon Transport.

Screenprint for “I’m Dreaming the Hardest” – a play about Marilyn Monroe written by Les Miller for Inner City Theatre Co..

Music
Poster for Opera Factory and the London Sinfonietta at the South Bank Centre. Double Crown hand screenprinted.
A 20×30 inch poster for London Underground for a 2 performance event lasting 4-6 hours each night at 2 different venues including a church.
Bob Marley – “No Woman No Cry”
Edith Piaf – “No Regrets”
(Non Rien de Rien Non)
This was later (untentionally by her) taken up by the French Foreign Legion as their anthem during the Algerian crisis
Billie Holliday – “Strange Fruit”.
lyrics from a poem by a pastor during the height of the KKK and lynchings

Dance

Printer’s proof for an Indian Dance event.
Folder for Adventures in Motion Pictures –
founded by Sir Matthew Bourne and Katharine Doré.
Hand Screenprinted proof for litho reproduction.
Duotone poster for Adventures in Motion Pictures (Mathew Bourne and Katharine Doré. A modern dance spoof rendering of Hitchcock films.

Film and Large Format

Large 30×40 in ” teaser” poster for Edinburgh Fringe. Subsequent posters had venue details replacing the quote.