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Introducing my reassuringly heavy but beautiful Pattern Weights. Sold in sets of six, there are currently 12 ranges to choose from. After months of testing, planning and stressing, I’ve finally done it. Head over to @foxgloveandfield to see what I’ve been up too! .
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I was honoured to be interviewed for Steve Sullivan’s excellent documentary ‘Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story’ about the creative genius who invented and performed the character Frank Sidebottom. The movie is touring cinemas nationwide to well deserved critical acclaim and the DVD/BluRay release is coming soon. I was a huge Frank Sidebottom fan and from the 1980s onwards saw him perform in many different venues with my friend the late Steve Crockwell. When the artist Adrian Shaw introduced me to Chris Sievey I was thrilled and we ended up working together on several exhibition projects at Chelsea Space. Chris was the real deal, a polymath, but his intelligence, his sense of the absurd and his restless creativity knew no bounds so he would always brilliantly go one anarchic step too far. I couldn’t keep up but I am privileged to have witnessed Chris in action - even though it got me into trouble a few times. Matthew Higgs In Artforum said my Frank Sidebottom exhibition was a ‘curatorial piece de resistance”! Here’s a picture of me with Chris in 2005 and with his bobbins alter-ego taken in 2007. My head looks almost as round as Frank’s! #beingfrank #franksidebottom #bardoftimperley #bobbins #stevesullivan #documentary #cinema #dvd #exhibition #manchestercentrallibrary #chelseaspace #artforum #11:37
Frank Sidebottom, c.1980s. From the ‘Bobbins’ exhibition looking at the archive of Chris Sievey and his alter-ego Frank. At Manchester Central Library until 30th April. It’s fantastic, you know it is, it really is.
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