2025
Spherical Wilder Man
in ceramic
I found a fluffball on the floor of Pendle Forest. I thought it was an animal at first. But it was just a pom pom from someone’s coat. Finding the pompom triggered 2 months of nourishing inspiration…
Charles Freger’s photos of the Wilder Mann, a folk tradition which has survived across Europe. Of the half-man half-beast, resurface on the occasion of ritualistic, pagan or religious festivals, celebrating the cycle of the seasons, the fat days, carnival or the eve of Easter.
Simplicity is one of the values of Quakerism. Scientists made these Wild Tsum Tsums to display in your Ancoats apartment next to your macbook and iced cherry matcha latte to remind you of the beasts.
Set of 8 ceramic Spherical Wilder Man – identified as ‘[insert names]’ – purchasable as individual or set from Paradise Works – Shop
Sequin Farm
sculpture/performance
Made during the height of flip sequin fabric, I wove a basket out of wheat that my Dad grew in Preston. I put a flip sequin pillow inside. The tracks in the sequins look like rows of fields, ploughing, scratching.
‘Sequin Farm’ exhibited as part of ‘F2LK’ – The Carlton Club, Manchester 2025
Pencil Drones
sculpture with accompanying text
‘Everyone gathered in the quantum hall.
This is where the Pencils and sticky tape are made. Drones returned from the magnetic fields with lumps of graphite as big as horses. Splinters and burns were common. They used light to heal their wounds. Holding their hands open under the red LEDs. And then moving to the blue light to heal the scars. The lettuce grows without soil, just water and light. The room is purple because of the red and blue LEDs mixing together. The fish feed the plants and the plants clean the fish. I put a different shaped rock in my shoe every morning.
We draw with pencils on paper and tape them to the wall. I drew on a rock with a pencil. The drawing was too thick.
We snack on lettuce between silicon wafers. I place sticky tape on the tip of a pencil and peel the top layer. We fold the tape in half and stick it to the flakes on top and split them again. We repeat this 20 times. I am removing clutter between me and the divine. We dissolve the sticky tape. I am making tiny drawings. This is the thinnest two dimensional drawing in the world. It is the strongest drawing ever measured. It is unparalleled. It is a wonder drawing’
Text adapted from Graphene – Wikipedia Entry
Graphene was first produced and identified in Manchester in 2004.
‘Pencil Drones’ exhibited as part of Fittings – Paradise Works, Salford 2025
2024
Ceremony (Hacienda 2)
performance
Hacienda 2 was a night at Antwerp Mansion, Rusholme 2025 consisting of 60+ artists stepping out of the shadow of Manchester’s suffocating mythos and neoliberal urbanism grasping for something. We closed the event with ‘Ceremony’. The ghost of the parkas delivered the final Hacienda floorboard to Spot the Boston Dynamics Robot to take far away from us.
Concept – Tanith Mab
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Soundtrack – Renslink / renslink
Puppetmaker – Izzy Hollis https://www.instagram.com/
Puppeteers:
Preost https://www.instagram.com/
Consumer Advice https://www.instagram.com/
Buffee https://www.instagram.com/
Parkas – Martin, Rory, Jim, Sim, Taylor, Nathan, Tayla, Unknown
Filmed by Basit Khan and Tommy Ryoma
‘Snapchat’
beading
The logo of Snapchat is a ghost. Metaphysical. Tweens sending each other disappearing messages. Tweens ghosting each other, emotional pain. Community.
Citrine crystals and beads
Robot Dog with Corn
beading
Boston dynamics’ ‘Spot the dog’. Industrial farming. Folk art. Warehouses without people, fields without people.
2023