Notes & updates

Journal

Shorter updates from the practice, sets played, prints in progress, sites going live. A running visual index, sitting alongside the fuller write-ups on the Work page.

A man in an olive jacket stands beside a large framed artwork on a bar wall. The piece has a black and white checked ground with a grey shape across the middle, lit from above.

Mar 2026

Revisiting Haunt
A turquoise ceramic form with two round eyes, half buried in rough moorland grass beside a rock.

Nov 2025

Buried in the peaks
The inside of a bar with wooden tables and chairs, a row of wall lights along a panelled wall, and people sitting talking. Two pints stand on the table in front.

Sep 2025

A look round Electrik
A poster reading Jazz 2 Jungle, Friday 18th July, Golden Lion, Todmorden. Two large graphic eyes sit above the line Moderate Sounds, Kev Original and Guests.

Jul 2025

Jazz 2 Jungle
A round badge design on a pale ground showing a village hall with a yellow flag, green hills and pencils, with Once Upon a Flag curved around the top and Flash Village Hall beneath.

Apr 2025

Once Upon a Flag
A person in a cap stands at a roadside behind a hand painted board with a rabbit on it. A dalmatian waits on the verge, with parked cars and a hillside behind.

Apr 2025

A sign for the spring fayre
Looking out through the open window of a frame built from salvaged windows, with the sun low over flat open ground.

Mar 2025

A greenhouse from recycled windows
A computer monitor on a desk showing design software, with a thick winding grey line drawn across the canvas and a tool panel down the right side.

Dec 2024

Block-printing files on the computer
A hand holding a Christmas card printed with a blocky pixel style tree in green and brown, with merry Christmas below it in red.

Dec 2024

Stupid tree Christmas cards
A round printed design with a purple outer disc, a red eight pointed star, a yellow star inside that and a teal shape at the centre.

Nov 2024

A new logo
A printed cloth hanging over the edge of a desk, patterned with a grid of pink squares each holding a dark green square. A keyboard sits beside it.

Oct 2024

Testing out block printing
Two people dressed for a wedding stand in front of a brightly painted mural. One holds a bouquet, the other holds a small dog.

Sep 2024

Married, via Levenshulme Station
A poster with yellow and black hazard stripes along the top and a line reading Manchester, Britpop and indie classics through the ages. Step On, Indie Disco sits in large type over a green tinted photograph of two young men.

Sep 2024

Step On
Two round coasters on a grey surface. The top one is white and reads Refuge. The one below is patterned with rows of yellow and red diamonds on a dark ground.

Jul 2024

Found in the archive: Refuge coasters
A square graphic on a mustard ground. Two stylised eyes in red and dark green sit on the left, with a red curve and a dark shape on the right, above the words Moderate Sounds in red.

Jul 2024

Moderate Sounds
A hand holding a fabric flower made from brightly patterned cloth in green, orange, pink and purple, in front of a stone fireplace.

Jul 2024

Fabric flowers for Tatton
A shop shutter painted with overlapping circles and half circles in blue, yellow, pink, green and white. A sign above reads Bike Station, with the word Cycle running down the left.

Jun 2024

The Bike Station mural
A dark bar interior with a row of framed prints along a brick wall, lit by wall lamps above them. The bar counter runs below.

Jun 2024

Protest, Pattern & Party
Two large framed prints leaning against a wall on a concrete floor. One holds a green and turquoise pattern, the other a pink and red one. Cables run across the floor.

Jun 2024

Framing fifteen years
A brick wall hung with two rows of framed record sleeves, with a small framed notice on the wall below them.

May 2024

The record sleeve show
An empty room with white walls, bare floorboards and a single hanging bulb, with a doorway through to the next room.

Feb 2024

Leaving Monica Grove
A framed poster on a pale pink ground reading Fuego Balear, Balearic curve balls and fire, Friday 20th October, 7pm till 11pm, with a geometric pattern of triangles and circles in pink, yellow, blue and green.

Oct 2023

Fuego Balear
Decks and a mixer set up outdoors under trees in the evening, with people standing and talking behind and string lights overhead.

Aug 2023

A vinyl session in Knutsford
Turntables and a mixer under an open sided shelter, with people standing behind among greenery and hanging lights.

Jul 2023

A leaving-party set
Two cyclists in matching patterned jerseys standing with their bikes at dusk, with festoon lights strung overhead and brick houses behind.

Jun 2023

The cycle kit
A sleeveless tabard hanging on a brick wall, printed with wavy lines, circles and squares in blue, pink, yellow and green on black.

Jun 2023

Tabards for the volunteers
A framed print of a bright yellow, red and green diamond pattern, displayed in the window of a brick building.

Jun 2023

Back at the Mill
An outdoor wall painted with a mural. A large white burst shape holds the word Welcome in blue letters on a yellow ground, with painted plants below and brick buildings either side.

May 2023

The greenway and the murals
The inside of a converted station building with a glazed pitched roof, long wooden tables and stools, plants and bare brick walls.

May 2023

An open Station South
Ordering Chaos, a woven wall hanging, Moderate Studio journal, 2023

Feb 2023

Ordering Chaos
A room with framed prints propped against furniture and a wooden chair, shelves of records and books behind, and green crates on the floor.

Jan 2023

Making Ordering Chaos
A poster with yellow diagonal stripes and green bands at the foot. Ruf Dug and plus special guests sit at the top, with Friday 24th June, 20:00 to 00:00 and free entry inside a large pink triangle.

Jun 2022

A poster for Ruf Dug
A poster on a pink halftone ground reading Jazz 2 Jungle, with a cut out black and white photograph of a man sitting on the bonnet of an estate car and a black Station South label below.

Jun 2022

Jazz 2 Jungle
A close view of a printed artwork. A curved black shape is filled with concentric circles, diamonds and dots in pink, blue, yellow and green, against a pale dotted ground.

May 2022

Glitch artwork
The inside of the station building full of people standing and sitting at tables, with an arched wooden roof and tall windows down one side.

Mar 2022

Station South opening night
A person on a stepladder against a brick wall, fitting a dark sign that reads Station South above a row of windows.

Feb 2022

The Station South sign, with my dad

Sep 2021

The chandelier test
A long empty hall with a glazed pitched roof and bare brick walls, light coming through the glass onto the floor.

Sep 2021

The station, stripped
A woman with a dark fringe standing in front of a backdrop of repeating grey cube shapes, wearing a black top with a row of patterned motifs across the front.

Aug 2021

Five years on, with Deb
The inside of a van fitted out as a workspace, with a bench along one side, a patterned panel on the wall and seats at the far end.

Aug 2021

The mobile studio
A yellow poster with a black smiley face inside concentric rings, the word Moderation in bold type above it and Manchester curved beneath.

Jul 2021

Moderation Manchester
The inside of a derelict building with a broken glazed roof and timber trusses. Rubble and stacked materials cover the floor and a few people stand in the distance.

Jul 2021

The keys
A framed artwork lit from above on a wall, showing a cluster of grey three dimensional cube forms on a finely patterned black and white ground.

Jul 2021

The Haunt commission, installed
A young plant growing in a pale bowl shaped pot on a wooden table, with a curtain behind.

Jun 2021

Lockdown plant pots
A work in progress on a table. Masking sheets surround a printed panel showing grey cube forms on a patterned ground.

Jun 2021

Making the Haunt piece
Two people sitting beside a large arched window in a derelict brick room with bare floorboards, with rooftops visible outside.

May 2021

Ten years later, and closing the door
A framed portrait in an ornate gold frame hanging on a dark blue wall. The painting shows a figure in colourful dress against a patterned background.

May 2021

Framed, five years on
A long narrow panel fixed to a wall, printed with black and white striped patterning and a row of colourful hexagonal cube motifs.

Apr 2021

Art on the back of the board

Apr 2021

The advert
An outdoor billboard standing on black legs in rough grass, reading The Social Advertising Board in large type with Artvert down a red band at the left. Houses stand behind it under a grey sky.

Apr 2021

Artvert, the social advertising board
A long horizontal artwork on a black and white patterned ground, with a row of five clusters of hexagonal cubes in red, blue, green and yellow.

Apr 2021

A Moderate Realism commission
A small plywood wagon with rounded windows standing on a city street, with stone buildings and a clear blue sky behind.

Apr 2021

Out around Manchester
A plywood wagon on a pavement in front of a white wall covered in stickers, with a person sitting on the kerb behind.

Apr 2021

Testing the M-Wagon
A printed sheet showing a stylised twenty pound note design with yellow shapes and a purple circular motif, hanging above a radiator.

Mar 2021

Printing the twenties
A man in a bright patterned jacket and cap holding a large fish in one hand against a pale pink background.

Feb 2021

Brexit
A rectangular artwork mounted on a brick wall, its pale ground scattered with small green and blue geometric shapes. Plants grow at the foot of the wall.

Jan 2021

Remnants
A mustard square with a white outlined hexagon at its centre, holding a letter L drawn from stepped parallel lines.

Jan 2021

Branding Levenshulme
A person standing with both arms raised in front of a billboard reading Wheels in Motion, with grass and buildings around.

Jan 2021

Taking on the board
A dark room with a desk and screens, plants along the windowsill, a sofa and warm lamp light.

Jan 2021

The Monica Grove room
A twenty pound note laid on a wooden surface and drawn over in black ink with scribbles and small coloured shapes.

Dec 2020

Drawing on money
A weathered wooden board with torn pieces of patterned paper stuck to it in blue, yellow and orange geometric prints.

Dec 2020

Finding the board again
A cream cushion printed with a six pointed star built from small cubes in green, blue, red and yellow.

Dec 2020

Christmas products
A person fitting a large black printed panel to the side of a white van parked at a kerb.

Oct 2020

The van
A person standing with both arms raised in front of a billboard reading Wheels in Motion, with hedges and a house behind.

Sep 2020

Wheels in motion
A tracksuit made from brightly patterned orange and yellow fabric with navy cuffs, laid out flat on a table.

Sep 2020

The Brexit tracksuit
A garment printer photographed against a repeating pink and black pattern of the letters DTG.

Sep 2020

Direct to garment
A dark surface covered in fine white geometric lines, with an oval outline in the middle holding the words Station South.

Aug 2020

The first Station South sign
A person in a white T-shirt leaning against an old cream estate car parked on a street of red brick terraced houses.

Jun 2020

Retired
A computer visualisation of an interior with a low ceiling, glazed doors along one side, a patterned floor and brick walls.

Jun 2020

How the inside could look
A grid of nine round badge designs, each carrying an M W monogram, in pink, teal and yellow on light and dark grounds.

Jun 2020

The M-Wagon branding
A person taking a mirror photograph in a doorway, wearing a yellow cycling jersey and black trousers.

Apr 2020

Lockdown looks
A white banner hung indoors, hand lettered in black capitals reading don't stop having fun because fate is a funny thing.

Mar 2020

Don’t stop having fun
A large Christmas cracker made from patterned wallpaper and tied with yellow ribbon, resting on a table.

Dec 2019

A wallpaper cracker
A plywood wagon with rounded windows and a person sitting inside, parked beside a black cargo trike on a pale floor.

Sep 2019

The finished M-Wagon
A small plywood model of a wagon with rounded windows, standing on a patterned rug in a room.

Mar 2019

The M-Wagon maquette
A coat laid on a wooden surface, printed all over with a photographic collage of robed figures in orange, pink and blue.

Feb 2019

The Welsh tapestry coat
A collage in the style of an old painting. Crowds of figures in red robes gather under a dark timber canopy with a seascape behind.

Dec 2018

The Dub Smugglers card
A framed mirror leaning against a wall, its surface etched with a pattern and reflecting a shop interior with a dark blue ceiling.

Nov 2018

Four etched mirrors for the shop
A metal decoration hanging on a thread against a dark green wall, cut into overlapping rings that form a rosette with a blue centre.

Nov 2018

Moderate Christmas decorations
A shop interior with people browsing. A table in the foreground holds bottles and small goods under warm light.

Nov 2018

The Salford Makers shop
A person in a cap screen printing at a table, pulling a squeegee across a yellow screen. Workshop shelves stand behind.

Nov 2018

Printing the Station South fabric
An older woman in a dark blue outfit standing by a fireplace in a living room, with a large patterned mirror above the mantelpiece and a laid table in front.

Nov 2018

My grandma and the mirror
A framed mirror standing on a wooden table, reflecting the person photographing it and a sofa behind.

Oct 2018

New designs
A room with a mannequin wearing a brightly patterned green and pink outfit, and a framed portrait painting on the wall behind.

Sep 2018

Joint show with Sally Gilford
A shop shutter on a brick building, covered in a dense repeating geometric pattern in pink, yellow, blue and green.

Sep 2018

The pattern reaches Levenshulme
A residential street at sunset with cars parked along the kerb and an orange sky above the rooftops.

Sep 2018

Near the end
Printed items laid on a brown surface: a cream booklet with a small cube logo, a narrow menu card with red type, and a sheet of repeating red and black cubes.

Aug 2018

Menus, and a DJ booth
A shoulder bag made from fabric printed with a dense pink, black and white photographic collage.

Aug 2018

The bags
Three people in elaborate drag makeup and brightly printed coats standing outdoors in front of a stone building, with a green placard held up behind them.

Jul 2018

Drag Against Trump, London
A large printed panel propped against a workshop wall, covered in a dense pink and black collage of protest imagery.

Jul 2018

Printing for Drag Against Trump
A phone screenshot of a social media post showing a performer in a tall feathered headdress and gold costume on a stage lit in purple.

Jun 2018

At the Life Ball
A person in a black vest standing in a workshop, holding up a large headdress made of pale pointed spikes.

May 2018

The Vienna Life Ball outfit
An outdoor party under red and white bunting. People stand at a table of equipment beneath a gazebo, with a child in the foreground and trees behind.

May 2018

The party in Hulme
A framed mirror on an orange gallery wall, reflecting a person standing in the room.

May 2018

FOMO at the Lowry
A wooden framed panel with a striped insert and a pale grey sink propped against a stone wall outdoors, with a black planter above.

May 2018

Making FOMO
Three people in white hard hats standing on a building site, with scaffolding and a plywood board behind them.

May 2018

Roof works
A low brick building on a street corner with blue shutters and a shop sign, under a grey sky.

Mar 2018

Jody Hartley shoots the Cash and Carry
People gathered around a table in a studio, one looking towards the camera, with an industrial ceiling and lights above.

Mar 2018

The open studio
A dark brick building at dusk with three lit windows, each filled with a bright geometric pattern.

Feb 2018

A new wallpaper
A white estate car parked on grass in front of a ruined stone castle at dusk, with the sea and hills behind.

Feb 2018

Martha on Arran
A phone screenshot of a video post showing a person in bold makeup wearing a large headdress of bright zigzag shapes in pink, yellow, blue and red.

Dec 2017

The New Year’s Eve headdress
A black framed artwork on a white wall, printed with concentric circles of fine black line that create a rippling effect.

Sep 2017

Photographed by Jody Hartley
A living room with a fireplace and a framed artwork above the mantelpiece, white walls, and a window at the far end.

Aug 2017

Open House, in the living room
A large print in a gold frame leaning in a room. The print has a pale ground marked with green and red and small collaged pieces.

Jul 2017

Framing the first print
A person in a pink T-shirt and paint marked trousers sitting on a yellow bench in front of a large blue and white cube pattern mural.

Jul 2017

The Waterloo paint jam
A black and white photograph of a bearded man in a printed T-shirt standing with his arms out in front of a wall covered in a three dimensional cube pattern.

Jul 2017

Weatherall against the wallpaper
A mosaic mural on a brick wall showing a starry sky above a red house, figures, animals and plants, with Booth Centre 2017 lettered down one side.

Jun 2017

The Booth Centre
A red wall painted with the word Levenshulme in large blue block letters over three lines, with yellow and blue stripes below.

Jun 2017

Painting the Levenshulme mural
A screen showing a design for a mural, the word Levenshulme in blue letters across pink and red panels.

Jun 2017

Designing the Levenshulme mural
A framed print on a pale gallery wall showing a grid of small red and white square motifs, with a caption card beneath.

May 2017

A show in Alicante
A tall narrow panel on a dark wall covered in a honeycomb pattern and lit from above.

May 2017

Eight months in the dining rooms
A man in a suit holding a baby indoors, with people standing close behind.

May 2017

Corbyn and the baby grow
An old architectural drawing on aged paper, printed with a heading of small text above a plan.

May 2017

A day with the 1892 plans
The front of a stone building with Levenshulme Station carved on a panel and the date 1892 in the gable above, with a blue shopfront below.

Apr 2017

First view of Station South
A basement room with walls papered in a dark brown and gold triangular pattern, an arched alcove and dark green paintwork below.

Apr 2017

Wallpaper in the basement
A large panel covered in creased metallic foil in bands of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple, mounted on a dark wall.

Apr 2017

Postal Art
A large mirrored panel fixed to a brick wall outdoors, reflecting the sky and the building, with concentric orange and black patterning around it.

Apr 2017

The mirrors and the mill
A person in a pale jacket standing outdoors beside a square artwork with a circular kaleidoscope pattern in pink, blue and yellow.

Mar 2017

The spinny thing
A person in dark clothing and red trousers standing in an alcove in front of a large pink panel with a repeating dark motif, a white sack on the ground beside them.

Feb 2017

Revisiting an old piece
A brick mill courtyard with picnic benches and planters, and several bright artworks hung in the windows above.

Feb 2017

Paintings in the courtyard
A gallery room with a row of landscape format abstract paintings hung along the walls.

Feb 2017

Abstract paintings
Cocktails in coupe glasses and layered desserts arranged on a surface printed with a bold pink, blue and yellow geometric pattern.

Jan 2017

Breakfast on the pattern
A boarded window in a brick wall filled with a bright yellow panel of repeating sunflower motifs.

Jan 2017

The sunflower windows
Two people standing in a gallery holding a framed portrait between them, with lights strung above and artworks on the white walls.

Dec 2016

For Lou
A framed print filled with dense small text in pink and grey, with the words I am enough in large bold blue letters across the middle.

Dec 2016

I Am Enough
A person in a patterned jacket standing beside a yellow estate car parked on a street at night.

Oct 2016

Martha at Halloween
A close view of a reddish brown floor printed with a dark border of interlocking square patterning.

Oct 2016

Printing the bar floor
A bright artwork with a portrait at its centre surrounded by radiating pointed rays in gold and dark blue on a red ground, mounted above a dark bar.

Oct 2016

The print and the mirror sun
A tall red brick building with a clock tower at dusk, with long banners hanging down the front and a street below.

Sep 2016

Banners on the tower
A person standing in front of tall arched windows filled with brightly coloured geometric panels, with curtains either side and others nearby.

Sep 2016

The launch
A framed print on an orange textured ground with blue block letters reading The Refuge, come as you are, with the date 14.09.16 and the number 004.

Sep 2016

The Refuge, Come As You Are, 004
A large orange and red patterned panel on a grey wall with a row of smaller matching panels below it and ornate cornicing above.

Sep 2016

Hanging the bar
A tall narrow mirrored panel patterned with honeycomb shapes, mounted on a grey wall and reflecting the lights of the room.

Sep 2016

The mirrors move house
An indoor atrium with a black horse sculpture on a stone plinth, arched windows and stone walls, with people in the background.

Sep 2016

The horse
A man in a dark jacket and cap giving a thumbs up in front of a wall covered in a dark print patterned with blue, yellow and red triangles.

Sep 2016

Install nine, and Jody approves
A tall stack of wooden stretcher frames leaning against a concrete wall in a workshop.

Sep 2016

Stretching the canvases
A long panel printed with an orange and red repeating pattern, fixed to an outdoor hoarding under a grey sky with plants in front.

Sep 2016

Install eight: Victoria
A large panel printed with a repeating pattern of blue, red and white triangular cube shapes.

Sep 2016

Install seven: Oxford Road
A cat lying on a dark surface above lengths of brightly patterned fabric in red, yellow and blue.

Sep 2016

Sewing night, supervised by Alan
An ornate black frame on a building front holding a panel of pink and blue triangular pattern.

Sep 2016

Install six: the framed shopfront
A long panel printed with a repeating blue cube pattern, mounted on an outdoor hoarding.

Sep 2016

Install five: Norman Road
A length of printed fabric patterned with yellow, red and blue diamond shapes on a black ground, laid out on a pale surface.

Sep 2016

Fabric for the bar
A panel patterned with green, orange and blue cubes fixed to a dark brick wall beneath a railway viaduct.

Sep 2016

Install four: Castlefield
A yellow green and grey cube patterned panel mounted on a red brick wall.

Sep 2016

The install that started it
A stone building doorway filled with a panel of pink and blue repeating pattern.

Sep 2016

Install two, and the public join in
A narrow city street with the arched doorway of a dark brick building, shutters pulled down and signs above.

Sep 2016

Install one: the Roadhouse
Three small brightly coloured prints in green, purple and orange, mounted one above the other on a dark wall.

Sep 2016

Three cuts, side by side
A view through a car windscreen along a road. White lettering reading The Palace is a Refuge is printed on a street cabinet in the foreground, with a block of flats behind.

Aug 2016

White ink on street furniture
A street poster with yellow block letters reading The Palace is a Refuge on a purple and pink ground, with the date 14.09.16 above and the number 003 below.

Aug 2016

The Palace Is a Refuge, 003
A tall cabinet faced with mirrored panels in a honeycomb pattern, standing in a bar and reflecting the room.

Aug 2016

The box goes mirror
Looking down at a workshop floor with a dark sheet, a cut out moth shape and small hexagonal mirror pieces scattered around.

Aug 2016

Laying out the mirror panels
A dark sheet on a work table, cut with a fine hexagonal pattern.

Aug 2016

Off the laser
A person sitting at a table with both arms raised, in front of three framed colourful portraits on a dark wall.

Aug 2016

The show travels to Bristol
A large printed sheet with a bold geometric star pattern in pink, yellow, blue and green.

Aug 2016

Printing the Refuge wallpaper
A doorway in a stone building with brightly coloured posters filling the glass panel.

Aug 2016

More posters, and printing on glass
A poster in a doorway reading A Revolt at the Palace, with Manchester below it and black and white imagery beneath.

Aug 2016

A Revolt at the Palace
A phone screenshot of a social media post showing two people sitting at a table in a bar, with a bright geometric pattern below.

Jul 2016

Come as you are
A hand holding a fan of colour swatch cards in front of a dark wall with a sign reading Staircase.

Jul 2016

Colour tests inside the Refuge
A black board on a green cutting mat, marked with fine white circular line patterns, with a ruler beside it.

Jul 2016

Circles on black
A hand holding a set of concentric hexagons cut from mirror, in a workshop.

Jul 2016

Hexagons, first cuts
A poster pasted on a wooden hoarding, green with pink letters reading A Re Volt at the Palace, the date 14.09.16 above and the number 002 below.

Jul 2016

First posters on the streets
A corner of a bedroom with a patterned hanging on the wall, a framed mirror on a wooden chest and a lamp with a green shade.

Jul 2016

Artworks in the bedroom
A white gallery wall hung with a row of five brightly coloured square artworks in dense pattern.

Jul 2016

The exhibition, with Sally Gilford
A drum kit set up on a green floor in front of a large colourful artwork, with framed pictures on the white brick walls.

Jul 2016

A print behind a band
A screen printing table with brightly printed sheets in green, pink and yellow stacked up to dry.

Jul 2016

Printing for the show
A large box covered in a dark panel with a grid of coloured squares, standing in a tiled hall with arches.

Jul 2016

Jody Hartley photographs the box
A metal screen with a fine honeycomb pattern standing in front of tall windows.

Jul 2016

Back inside the Palace, looking closer
A poster with black block letters reading A Re Volt at the Palace on a scribbled white ground, the date 12.09.16 above and the number 001 below.

Jul 2016

A Re Volt at the Palace, 001
A person holding up a large green poster with pink lettering reading A Re Volt at the Palace, inside a shop.

Jul 2016

A0 test print
A framed panel on a wall filled with a dense geometric pattern in blue, yellow, red and green.

Jul 2016

A wallpaper in primary colours
A sculpture of tangled blue wire standing on a dark green board on a workbench.

Jun 2016

Resisting Reality
A large cube standing in a hall, painted with a swirling spiral of pink, red and blue pixels, with people walking around it.

Jun 2016

People meet the box
A pale fabric piece in a white frame with the word Habits printed at the top.

Jun 2016

The Habits shirt
A dark panel showing a pixelated spiral in red, pink and blue, propped up in a dim room.

Jun 2016

Painting the box, with Jude Wainwright
A man in a checked flat cap and white T-shirt sitting in a car, holding a small green plant.

Jun 2016

Making on the way to Glastonbury
A grid of twelve open paint tins on a metal surface, showing pink, red, navy, purple, teal and cream.

Jun 2016

Colour planning against the terracotta
A large grey box standing in a hotel reception with a domed glass ceiling, marble floor and a clipped bay tree.

Jun 2016

Measuring the grey box in reception
A brick building with a row of windows filled with bright grid patterned panels in pink and blue under a clear sky.

Jun 2016

New patterns in the windows
A lino print on white paper showing the letters R V in black with rough textured edges.

May 2016

RV, cut into lino
An open notebook covered in handwritten notes and small diagrams in blue and black ink.

May 2016

First meeting at the Palace Hotel
An empty office with framed artworks hung along the walls and a person standing looking at them.

May 2016

A show in an empty office block
A person in a patterned hooded garment standing outdoors in a crowd, with a mirrored ball covering their face.

May 2016

A mirrorball for the festival
A studio set against a white brick wall, with a dark artwork on the left, three tall cones in pink, green and yellow, and a camera on a tripod.

Apr 2016

A rubbing as a backdrop
A person in a bar holding up a large print of a figure in a green robe with a gold halo and flowers.

Apr 2016

A print at the Golden Lion
A framed portrait lying on a wooden workbench, showing a person with curled hair holding red flowers.

Apr 2016

An alternative version
Four framed portraits in pink and blue tones hung in two rows on a wall in a warmly lit room.

Mar 2016

The exhibition and club night at Font
A fanned stack of prints in different colours, the top one showing a blue figure on a patterned ground.

Mar 2016

Printing, every which way
A large green sheet hung on a wall with a swirl of multicoloured paint marks across the middle.

Mar 2016

The same image, over and over
A person in a workshop carrying a long rolled tube of printed fabric across one shoulder.

Mar 2016

A roll of Burberry
A framed print filled with short orange and white dashes on a black ground.

Mar 2016

MCR
A computer screen showing a portrait of a woman in a green robe with a gold halo, holding orange and cream flowers against a blue sky.

Feb 2016

Three portraits take shape
A sheet of paper on the floor covered in multicoloured paint rubbings, with two rectangular shapes showing through.

Feb 2016

Rubbings from the paint
A printed sheet with a geometric pattern of interlocking green and gold eight pointed shapes with red dots on white.

Feb 2016

Islamic wallpaper
A mirrored panel etched with fine line patterns, standing outdoors and reflecting its surroundings.

Jan 2016

Etching by hand, outside
A square panel thickly covered in swirling paint in yellow, green, blue and pink.

Jan 2016

The night Bowie died
A large print in red and orange leaning against a wooden wall, hand lettered at the top with Off With Their Heads and Islington Mill above a crowd scene.

Dec 2015

The Off With Their Heads exhibition
A bicycle leaning against an outdoor wall covered in weathered patterned wallpaper in blue, pink and green.

Dec 2015

The wallpaper, rotting
A shop window at night seen through security bars, with a small silver Christmas tree and warm lights inside.

Nov 2015

The SWAG window
A shop changing room doorway with patterned curtains in purple, orange and blue hanging either side.

Nov 2015

Curtains for the changing room
A large square print in orange, yellow and red with a dense floral pattern, propped up on a tiled floor.

Nov 2015

Everything I made for the shop
A room being decorated, with walls papered in a green and pink diamond pattern and a bright pink and blue patterned sheet across the floor.

Nov 2015

Papering the shop
A long strip of wallpaper on a work table, printed with pink, orange and yellow floral medallions.

Nov 2015

Printing the SWAG wallpaper
A white sheet pinned to a wall with a grid of small bee drawings in many different styles.

Nov 2015

The winning bees
A dark wooden frame on a wall holding a grid of small etched mirror panels.

Oct 2015

The first etched mirrors
A crowd at a protest march in a street, holding a large white banner with black letters reading Bun the Tories.

Oct 2015

The march before the Tory conference
A large printed sheet hung on a wall showing a galaxy in purple, red and black with scattered stars.

Sep 2015

The universe in halftone
A white hexagonal card on a black background, printed with an illustrated bee with grey wings.

Sep 2015

The bee invite
A silver estate car parked on a mountain road with steep green slopes and peaks behind.

Sep 2015

Martha in Switzerland
A man in a green cap and a T-shirt printed with Bun the Tories standing behind decks with one hand raised, plants beside him.

Jul 2015

The first Bun The Tories shirt
A framed pizza box on a shelf printed with the letters PLY in a swirling pattern, among other framed pieces.

Jul 2015

The PLY pizza box
A large woven panel made from many small squares of coloured paper in pink, yellow, blue and green, hung on a wall.

Jul 2015

Weaves
A person sitting in the open boot of an estate car with record decks beside them and greenery behind.

Jul 2015

DJing from the back of Martha
A screen printing bed holding a print of a green lizard with the words Ruf Dug and Island.

May 2015

Ruf Dug’s Island
A dark gallery space with small artworks hung on the walls and a chair in the middle, lit from above.

May 2015

PI3.14 at Islington Mill
A studio windowsill lined with paint tins and containers, with a brick building outside the window.

May 2015

Pictures from the studio
A square card lying on a wooden floor, printed with a patchwork of small triangles in pink, blue and green with the word moderate in red across the middle.

May 2015

A card for my aunty
A close view of a metallic gold surface with a fine blue line drawing of a letter shape.

May 2015

Printing Manchester
A person in a dark suit standing in a dim room in front of a wall covered in a fine silver pattern.

Apr 2015

PI3.14 and Shabazz Palaces
A brick mill courtyard with picnic benches and plants, a red ladder against the wall and artworks in the windows above.

Apr 2015

The Moderate Courtyard Gallery
A dense pattern of small triangles in rainbow colours shading from green through blue to pink on a dark ground.

Apr 2015

PI3.14
A framed square of printed cloth with a bold geometric pattern of diamonds and squares in blue, orange, yellow and pink.

Mar 2015

A run of printed cloth
A mannequin wearing a brightly patterned short sleeved shirt in red, yellow and green, standing beside a mirror.

Feb 2015

Clothes from the offcuts
A stack of printed flyers with pink and red text advertising fine art, giclee and large format digital printing with a 24 hour turnaround.

Feb 2015

The large-format side
A large sheet of paper covered in handwritten notes arranged by month, with headings in coloured pen.

Jan 2015

A plan for the year
A black and white poster for a New Year warehouse party reading The Bug featuring Flowdan, with a line drawing of stacked speakers down the left side.

Dec 2014

New Year at the Mill
A bright collage with a figure among patterned fabric shapes in red, blue, gold and pink, overlaid with a metallic mesh.

Dec 2014

In her memory
A window at night carrying a purple and yellow heart and stripes, with city lights beyond the glass.

Dec 2014

A piece of street art
A cream cloth banner hanging in a room, printed with dark red and green leaves and flowers around the name Vera, with the dates 1985 to 2014 beneath.

Dec 2014

Vera
A vinyl record with a large paper insert folded into a diamond, printed with a radiating pattern in yellow, red and blue.

Nov 2014

The second release
A poster with Martin Creed in large pink letters over a blue and green grid pattern, with smaller text above and below.

Nov 2014

Martin Creed at the Mill
A framed print on a wall showing a dense fine grey mesh pattern on white, with a caption below it.

Aug 2014

Qualia
A long dark building wall with a wide band of rainbow gradient painted along the top, a round logo, and a sign reading wine bar and ale house.

Jun 2014

The Wallop mural
A person leaning on the open door of a cream estate car outdoors.

Jun 2014

Martha
A pink shirt printed with Club Tragicana in yellow and green letters, with a palm tree and a yellow tower block.

Jun 2014

Club Tragicana
A billboard on a brick building showing two portraits of men with white tape across their mouths, above a large partly hidden slogan.

Jun 2014

MTK Records
A group of people posing together in a doorway against a brightly patterned wall while a photographer takes their picture.

Jun 2014

The Little Dragon photoshoot
An old four pane window frame propped against a wall, each pane holding a printed face in green, red or yellow.

Apr 2014

Jimmy Jesus
A print taped to a wall, showing a figure and a large letter C among stars in deep blue.

Dec 2013

Hyper Grotto
A wall covered in bright wallpaper with a dense repeating pattern in red, yellow, blue and green, with a white Christmas tree in front.

Dec 2013

Kath Kidston on Acid
A person standing in a field in a white suit covered in colourful paint splatters, with white boots.

Aug 2013

A Westwood suit in a field
A room being decorated, with teal walls, a roll of wallpaper and a person working at a table under warm light.

Jun 2013

First wallpaper commission
A screen printing carousel above a white cloth printed with a green plant design and small red marks.

Jul 2012

Easter print
A person holding up a red T-shirt with a dark graphic printed on it, in a room with people and a wooden floor.

Jun 2012

A t-shirt for UnConvention

Jun 2012

A talk made of video
A large canvas painted with an orange dome, a pink elephant and a red target circle above dark silhouetted shapes, on a yellow ground.

Jun 2012

Electric Elephant canvas
Two men standing together at an event, one holding up a printed cloth with blue lettering for a screen printing company.

Jun 2012

Peter Saville holds the cloth
A person in a white T-shirt painting a large white panel with a blue circular design, on a dark wall outdoors at night.

May 2012

Sounds From The Other City
A brick wall in an industrial space hung with many framed pictures of different sizes, a ladder leaning against it.

Jan 2012

Walls into galleries

Jun 2011

A screen-printed gig poster
Two people sitting on a mattress inside a large concrete arch, with a city skyline behind them.

Jun 2010

Two of us, on the roof
A screen printing bed holding a red and black print with large letters reading heads and smaller text below.

Apr 2010

Off With Their Heads
A rough plaster wall printed with a block of orange stencilled text.

Mar 2010

A second release

Oct 2009

The promo
A white cloth printed with large red letters spelling Reckoner, repeated in overlapping rows.

Sep 2009

The first proper print
A poster headed Folk Mystique, with dense small text and hand drawn fish, plants and creatures on a pale ground.

Aug 2009

Folk Mystique poster
A white banner with a red graphic hanging from a wire against a cloudy sky.

Jun 2009

Riot Jazz banners
A black and white printed sheet laid out like a newspaper page, with columns of text and images, curling at one edge.

Jun 2009

The first screen print
A white van at night with lettering across the rear window and its back doors open.

Jun 2008

Sandwich van rear window

Jun 2007

The degree show