Davina and Daniel
is an artist collaboration with
Davina Drummond
Formed in September 2006, Davina and Daniel have presented work at Space Station Sixty-Five, Camberwell Festival,
and Campbell Works. lonely heARTS, a Valentine Days event, was selected for
the Kaunas Biennale, Lithuania.

http://davinaanddaniel.blogspot.com/

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A3 is a hand painted poster publication produced monthly, and distributed free of charge at various venues across London including First Thursday, and Second Thursday evenings, and at Another
Roadside Attraction, Artwords Bookshop, BookArtBookShop, Cafe Gallery Projects, Donlon Books, Wiebke Morgan, and 176.

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DO THIS were a series of site-specific instructions to perform actions devised
for the exhibition At Play curated by Outi Remes and Cally Trench at South Hill
Park.

The instructions were located inside and outside the arts centre building.

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Shine The Light was a work devised for
the Dead Season Live Art festival held in Margate, Kent during February / March 2010. Shine The Light commemorated the presence of notable writers and artists
in Margate including John Betjamin, T.S. Eliot, John Keats, and William Turner.

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For The Nunhead Festival, 18 to 27 September 2009 I devised THIS HAPPY BAND, a collection of Artists, Musicians,
Poets, and Wordsmiths, who performed
troubadour fashion, at pubs, in the
community centre, and on Nunhead Green.

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Davina and Daniel were invited by
HIAP - Helsinki International Artist In Residence Programme - to create work
at the island of Suomenlinna, a ferry
ride from central Helsinki. Some of the works I made during the residency are included here.

Davina and Daniel works are included
in the Davina and Daniel section above.

Whilst in Finland I kept a blog that fully
documents the residency:

http://greetingsfromfinland.blogspot.com

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Hats was a work included in One
Sandwich Short of a Picnic - a Baby BonkersFest event (a smaller version
of the annual Bonkersfest) which was
held on Sunday 26 July in Southwark
Park, London.

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The Thing We Do On The Day Unites
Us was a commissioned work from East
Street Arts, as part of their collection of
creative happenings which took place in Leeds during May and June 2009.

The title of the work resulted from DEMO,
a workshop that explored the question
"What Unites Artists?"

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Your Art Here was a participatory work devised for the Camberwell Festival, and took place from 1pm to 6pm on 21 June 2009.

Through posters displayed in the windows
of local shops, emails to local schools,
adult education classes, and local artists, and by word of mouth, people were invited
to display their artworks on the railings
around Camberwell Green.

Participants received a Certificate of
Merit to mark their participation and a
catalogue documenting the event.

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Daniel Knows was included in the Big Event - curated by Home Live Art - which took place at Myatt's Fields Park, Camberwell on 20 June 2009.

Daniel Knows are pre-written predictions each one placed in an envelope. Through
a process of selection, those who consult Daniel, are left with one envelope, which contains their prediction.

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The Role Of The Village Idiot
an afternoon of performance organised
by Mark McGowan, took place on Saturday
28th March 2009.

The event is based on ideas and
suggestions by the artist and writer Paul O'Kane concerning the question of a necessary expulsion that may lie at the heart of the formation of any community.
- Mark McGowan

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50 NOT OUT! was a retrospective of my work held at The Montague Arms, New Cross, London on the 12 March 2009, to celebrate my fiftieth birthday.

Invited artists were each given a
work of mine and asked to interpret
and re-present it in their own fashion.

The evening concluded with a lecture titled:

What I Have Learnt From 50 Years
On This Planet.

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ScrapBookTales was performed at The Montague Arms, as part of the monthly Second Thursday events, curated by Poet and Performer Frog Morris.

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WILF was presented at Wiebke Morgan -
as part of Puppenspielerei - a day of artists' approaches to the puppet show which also included Calum F. Kerr, Julia Moore, Nicholas Morgan, and Wiebke Morgan.

WILF was a ventriloquist act between The Reverend Phillips, and his puppet WILF.

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A Nod To Guy Fawkes was performed
with Charlotte Young during
Micro-performance; an experimental performance structure developed by Rebecca Birch, held at The Montague
Arms, on 13 November 2008, as part
of the monthly Second Thursday Live Art
events curated by Frog Morris.

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Free Art From The Prison Of Your Mind was a performance that took place at the closing of Jasper Joffe's FREE ART FAIR
(19 October) when those who had waited
in line (some for several days) were able
to claim a Free Art Work, including works by Matthew Collings, Sacha Craddock, Sayshun Jay, Jasper Joffe, Peter Lamb, Cathy Lomax, Bruce McLean, Bob &
Roberta Smith, Gavin Turk, and
Stella Vine.

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Art 4 Nowt was included in a series of performances curated by Campbell and Morris Projects for the opening night of Jasper Joffe's Free Art Fair held in London from the 13 to 19 October 2008.

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The Soul Is A Dark Place was an
invitation to those attending Scene In
The Making on 2 and 3 October 2008 - an event curated by Campbell and Morris Projects, as part of the Concrete and Glass Festival - to record their darkest thought.

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BINGO - curated with Lorna Giezot - was staged during the evening of 20 September, at The Old Nun’s Head public house in South London, as part of the Nunhead Arts Festival.

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audience ACTS was a work made on the evening of 14 August 2008, as part of Stage Struck, an event curated by Lee Campbell
at Southwark Playhouse, during which artists devised works in response to the performance of Moll Flanders.

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The Public ACTS a site-specific work commissioned by the newly opened The Public gallery, invited visitors to The
Public, during 26 and 27 July, and 9 and
10 August 2008 - to explore the building
by performing a prescribed action, witnessed, and documented by myself.

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See & Collect, a collaboration with Miranda Peake, and Michelle Masters was made for Consume Peckham, a programme of activities and events in unusual locations in and around Peckham, curated by Kieron Dennis.

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BonkersFest is an annual event that celebrates madness, creativity and individuality.

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Take The Pledge formed part of Stone Cold Sober Evening, an evening that celebrated sobriety, curated by Calum
F. Kerr for The Camberwell Festival.
Patrons of The Hermits Cave in
Camberwell were invited to Take
The Pledge and, once they agreed,
'lucky dipped' (from a beer glass) the
name of a well known hell-raiser, who
would support them in their pledge.

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Walk HERE was a guided walk around Camberwell on 15 June 2008 - a companion work to HERE (see below). During the walk Daniel Lehan, in the guise of Mobheg Rich, local cultural historian, recounted little known histories regarding the visits of famous artists and writers to Camberwell.

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HERE was a collection of twelve yellow 'heritage' plaques - installed in the windows of shops and businesses, commissioned by the Camberwell Arts Festival 2008 - to record the fictional visits of famous artists and writers to Camberwell.

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Readings From A Child Hood Diary (Part 1) was included in Second Thursdays - a monthly event curated by Frog Morris at
The Montague Arms, New Cross Gate, in South London (12 June 2008). The diary pages are actual events from my childhood.

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Ten How Much placards were included in Subliminal Seduction, an event organised by Another Roadside Attraction, held on 5 April along Oxford Street.

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Obituary is my self-penned obituary.
According to information that I recently provided to a website, I am over half way thru my life span, this caused much self reflection. The obituary contains elements of truth and fiction, and, naturally, an invented future.

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We Are Shadows was made for The Curse of Me, a live art event curated by Lee Campbell, with performances by Calum F. Kerr, Adrian Lee, and Caroline De Lannoy (amongst others) held on 20 November 2007, at The Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London.

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BOAST was commissioned by Wiebke Morgan, London, as part of their inclusion in the First Thursday in the Month Programme.

BOAST was both a retrospective of my Sandwich Boards, and a Sandwich Board Performance (4 October 2007), which comprised of parading the board through Bethnal Green, stopping along the way to visit private views at other galleries.

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The Deviant Art Festival held in
Trolhatten, Sweden from 14 to 28 July
2007, was curated by Fredrik Lindberg
and Joanna Ageborn.

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Camberwell Arts Festival (2007) took place in and around Camberwell in South London, from 16 to 24 June.

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Art Recipe Haikus were invitations to make an artwork written in the form of a haiku for Pique Nique, a collection of works curated for Cart Blanche, Lucia Cipriano's mobile gallery, which was participating in FRED, held in Cumbria in October 2006.

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Teri King Predicts During 2005 I kept a daily diary with the sole intention of exploring how accurate the daily astrological predictions made for Pisces
my star sign, were.

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HIDE uses a digital message board,
placed in public spaces, to transmit observations and overheard conversations.

HIDE was included in Sideshow, held in Nottingham, 2006.

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Kolley Kibber RIP was a work commissioned by SPACE Public Arts
Projects for inclusion in the Roman Roadparty held on Roman Rd, Bow,
London on 31 July 2005.

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BIRDOCRACY, a collaboration with Steve Johnson, took place at the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture at Middlesex University on 17 May following the General Election held in 2005.

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Second Chance was made for the You
Are Here Festival held in Nottingham (24 September to 3 October 2004). Second Chance involved buying a wide range of objects from the Scope, Oxfam and Barnardos charity shops in Nottingham City Centre, and altering these in a variety of ways in my studio.

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ChalkWalk was a series of personal memories about growing up in Margate, made for inclusion in the Margate Rocks Festival 2004. Using chalks, each memory was written on the pavements immediately
in front of 13 specific locations in Margate
Old Town.

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