About the Artists PERFORMERS & WRITERS S.V.WOLFLAND aka WIDSITH THE SCOP S.V.Wolfland is a writer, performance poet, storyteller and editor. Published poetry and fiction includes print and online magazines in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia including The Argotist Online, Spokes, First Offense, Poetry Manchester, The Bathyspheric Review, Moonstone, Fickle Muses, Sputnik57, Out of Order, DogmaNet, Axiom, Ocular, Nightingale etc., and in an anthology of poetry and photography called ‘North Yorkshire One Nine Nine’ published by Shutter Books and available on Amazon. Previous pamphlets include ‘Salt Circles on Steel Ground’, ‘Masques and Mazeworks’, ‘The Baroque Citadel’, and ‘Lunatic and Dream’. Current poetry chapbooks available are ‘The Books of…’ Trilogy of serial poem chapbooks of comic quirkiness with serious satirical purpose. ‘The Book of Contentions’, ‘The Book of Indictments’ and ‘The Book of Offences’ are all available from the Web Shop and as shows or in parts as slots on a multi-performer bill. Historical time travel adventure novel ‘Porlock the Warlock’ is also available from the Web Shop, and Widsith and Deor also give talks on how it was written and do readings with associated storytelling from it and the ancient sources which inspired it. As well as a BA in Writing and Philosophy, S.V. also holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Plymouth. S.V. has performed at many festivals and events including the Glastonbury Festival, Cheltenham Festival of Literature, Bristol Poetry Festival, English Heritage’s Festival of History, Apples & Snakes S.W.’s ‘The Poetry Feast’, TipofYourTongue Festival, Sunrise Celebration, Great Create Festival, Exeter tEXt Festival, guest poet at Uncut Poets, Salisbury Poetry Café, etc.. Work spans literature and poetry festivals and events, rock festivals, green festivals, arts festivals, and historical re-enactments, to art exhibitions, live art and academic conferences. Between bringing alive ancient performance poetry - most notably the C10th Exeter Book, 3rd Millennium BC Epic of Gilgamesh, and C13th Egilsaga - as part of Widsith and Deor Storytelling Theatre, and The Poetry Theatre with beautiful props, sometimes aided and abetted by other members of the Collective, performances are suitable for a large range of events – from powerful political satire to theatrical tales for everyone, to meet and greet turns to unique enigmatic shows on themes eg; the geometry of love… Commissions include being invited to collaborate on and launch the Dragon Arch public art sculpture for the Exeter Phoenix by former arts development agency Artshare, with three other artists, and being one of the actors commissioned to workshop the script of ‘The Witches of Bideford’ by Heidi Stephenson, then broadcast with radio actors on BBC Radio Devon. (Click the link to hear the play.) S.V. works as editor of ‘Spoken/Written Bulletin S.W.’ regional e-newsletter for live literature, currently funded by the Arts Council. Spoken/Written’s part of the website is a Poetry Society Landmark website. Other work includes proof reading, arts co-ordinator/administrator, web design, copywriter and writing workshops. S.V. has exhibited visual textwork at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery, recited poetry on BBC Radio Devon’s ‘The Review’ arts programme, briefly studied photography and video production, and done drama and acting training. Of the Porlock trilogy of historical time travel novels for all ages ‘Porlock the Warlock and the Indigo Swan’ featuring The Epic of Gilgamesh, C10th Exeter Book and some Vikings, is now available from the Web Shop as a paperback book of around 200 pages, and work on ‘Porlock and the Monad Machine’ involving Leibniz is in progress. S.V. cannot tell the difference between words/theatre/visual arts/sound, or architecture/garden design, or philosophy/history/literature, although does understand that not every great philosopher inhabits an eighteenth century landscape. Kind of. To commission, book, or enquire about writing, performance, shows, or to buy books or chapbooks, e-mail; widsith@blueyonder.co.uk MATTHEW HAMMOND Matthew Hammond is a philosophy scholar who first studied Anthropology at Cambridge, during which he discovered that his real calling was Philosophy. He then did a PGCE Cert. Math. at Keele University, and taught Maths, self-employed, working in the afternoons and evenings, so that he could study Philosophy most mornings from 5am until 12 noon. There are well over 500,000 words in the Philosophy section of this website alone (added to regularly) - not including the Rants (over 100,000 words and obviously added to weekly) or associated works. The Rants of the Week have been described as Barthes’s Mythologies for our times...on acid. The Rants of the Week are now available in 3 themed pamphlets (in true C17th style) - Philosophical Rants, Political Rants and Ecological Rants, and can be ordered from the Web Shop. His main research interests are C17th Rationalism, especially Spinoza and Leibniz; Deleuze, Foucault, and C19th literature, especially Dickens. Also Hume & Empiricism, Nietzsche, Aristotle, and political philosophy. He has taught philosophy at Exeter University, LSE Summer School, and has delivered many papers at philosophy and literature conferences, including at; Warwick University’s Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature’s ‘Deleuze and Literature’ Conference, ‘Deleuze & The Fold’ Workshop, and ‘Coleridge, Friendship & the Origins of Modernity’ Conference, Greenwich University’s ‘The Strange Encounter of Kant & Deleuze’ Conference and the ‘Philosophy As…’ Conference at the Senate House in London. He has had chapters accepted for the forthcoming books – ‘Unfolding the Deleuzian Fold; Gilles Deleuze’s Fold: A Critical Reader’ edited by Sjoerd van Tuinen and Niamh McDonnell, published by Palgrave Macmillan. He also has chapters accepted in book proposals for a book on ‘Deleuze and Literature’, and another on ‘Conceptions of the Industrial Revolution’. Whilst philosophy is his main driving force, he is a polymath, and is also a gifted teacher – of maths, philosophy and politics, has an impressive and wide ranging knowledge of history, is a dazzling writer of literary criticism, a talented historical cook, an innovative and disturbing artist in many mediums (graphics, willow, plaster, paper mache, mask making, wire, philosopher’s cards, leather, pastels, etc..), is skilled in IT, and is a highly original and unforgettable storyteller and lecturer. He has performed at many festivals and events including the Sunrise Celebration, English Heritage’s Festival of History, Great Create Festival of the Arts at Greenway, Appledore Visual Arts Festival, etc., and has compered at the Poetry&Words Tent at Glastonbury. His ‘performance philosophy’ shows involve ‘making theatre out of all those books you always meant to read but never got around to’ - from Plato to de La Rochefoucauld! and are thought provoking, informative, witty, insightful, occasionally hilarious and always revelatory. Whilst he has had no formal drama training, years of teaching and going to see over 100 productions of theatre and dance have given him both the ability to deliver a story with passion and perception, or a lecture with theatrical style and satire. He is a startlingly physical performer with great presence and can fill a hall with his voice alone. He brings both a philosophical and emotional depth as well as the immense energy that he channels away from writing hundreds of thousands of words! to the shows, and also an educational aspect, as he runs storytelling and craft workshops for schools. Most recently his paper on Deleuze and Spinoza, was accepted for the ‘One or Several Deleuzes?’ Conference at Cardiff University. To enquire about any of his works, to book or order pamphlets, please e-mail; su2044@blueyonder.co.uk VISUAL ARTISTS, DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE MELINA HUBBARD Melina Hubbard of Whistling Willow studied Environmental Art at Bicton College, studying under the artist Serena de la Hey and has an HND in Outdoor Education from Truro College. As a student she worked as a technician for the ‘Reveal’ exhibition at the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail, and on the ‘Bamboozle’ project in Porthleven, led by artist Geraldine Jones, part of National Architecture Week. Since starting work professionally as an environmental artist she has executed a great variety of commissions large and small, for willow sculpture, fencing and garden design including for Mount Pleasant Eco Park in Porthtowan, designing Chyan Community Field’s Organic Sensory Garden, Gwithian Farm Campsite, and a number of private gardens in Cornwall and Devon, from Perranwell to Otterton. Her most challenging private commission so far has been to create the Sensory Garden at Chyan Community Fields, owned by the Swamp Circus Trust, as not only did it involve the building and planting of many raised beds, including sculptural rustic decoration, but also clearing the land to begin with – the initial starting point being waste land covered in tarpaulins and old tyres! She is currently finishing work on a large commission (begun July ‘08) to design and build a community play space and hold a series of community workshops for Penwith District Council in St. Buryan. The theme of the play area is the Solar System, and work has finished on a round earthhouse cave representing a black hole, a sculptural boat interactive sculpture, an amphitheatre, with framed roof, a graffiti mural, wood carved poles and mosaic stepping stones and rockets. It will also include willow structures, the planting of a sheltered garden, and a water feature. Rather than just an imaginative play area, the site is shaping up to be a work of art in its own right and a visitor attraction once the finishing have been completed. She has just finished a commission to hold community workshops and design and build willow constructions including a dome, tunnel and corrals as part of another environmental play area in the Gwavas area of Newlyn near Penzance, also commissioned by Penwith District Council. She has run many willow workshops, making fairy wings, swords, Chinese dragons, lanterns and other items, - even a giant nest that could seat five children! on Bodmin Moor - including promoting the museum rooms above Truro Library with an event at Pendennis Castle as organized by English Heritage, and at many festivals and events including the Sunrise Celebration, Appledore Visual Arts Festival, Swamp Circus, Hatherleigh Festival, BBC Springwatch, Holifair, North Devon Festival, Mabe Shindig, Save Our World Festival, etc.. Her latest community workshops have been for Penwith District Council and have been in skills from tyre building to mosaics. As a community artist and workshop leader her listening and communication skills are exceptional. As a designer her approach is completely hands on. As well as drawing up the designs and commissioning the workforce, she is on site throughout, and can be found sourcing the materials, and not only doing willow construction, but digging, tyre-filling, spray painting and generally being part of every level of the project. In this she is more akin to the architect and artisan Gaudi or in the tradition of the actor-managers of bygone theatre, than the kind of designer who merely draws up the plans and lets others get on with it. She has recently been listed as a Play Area Designer and Landscape Architect on the national Children’s Play Information Service (CPIS) database. (See; http://www.ncb.org.uk/Page.asp?originx6812in_1832991054480z44q6370913124 ) Her work has been featured in Devon Life, The Cornishman, and the Express and Echo amongst others. She has also worked as an alternative therapist, holds a Diploma in Holistic Therapy, and has worked at alternative health centres conducting both massage and reflexology. She still takes on reflexology patients very occasionally, although only when art, garden and play area commissions permit. She also makes sensational savoury popcorn. To check availability and commission environmental sculpture, garden design, willow fencing, play areas, outdoor interactive zones, eco-wedding or event decoration, workshops or consultancy, please e-mail; melinahubbard@yahoo.co.uk WAYNE CRITCHLEY Wayne Critchley is an environmental artist, eco builder, historical renovator, vehicle mechanic, and something of an inventor, with a whole host of skills. Both creative and immensely practical, he brings a lateral thinker’s approach to both his artistic and his artisan skills – with impressive results. He can make many things from cob ovens to street seller’s carts to theatre scenery and mend an amazing range of things…Hence the name Inno-ventions. He also runs Van-tastic, and has adapted vans as living spaces, for allsorts of vehicle sizes and customizations, including vans for disabled people. Experience includes having been an apprentice on the team that renovated the plasterwork in the Chapel of St. Peter & St. Paul at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, working on the renovation of Boathouse No. 4 at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard and restoration work for the Duke of Buckingham, as well as commissions for fencing, willow workshops, all kinds of building and decorating work, thatching, glazing, welding and even some plumbing! He has studied Environmental Art and Craft at Bicton College, where one of his lecturers said that ‘you already know what we’re teaching’. As part of Whistling Willow he has executed many private and public commissions from a willow den for a crèche at St. Mary’s Catholic School, to a green wood gate with curving bars for a garden in Otterton to a giant ball made from gorse to decorate the Jubilee Wharf Wedding Fayre. He has been working on the Solar System themed play area in St. Buryan, having done tyre building for the amphitheatre, designing the roof for the earth cave and has recently finished working on the construction of the large boat sculpture. He has co-run willow workshops at many events and festivals including the Sunrise Celebration, Appledore Visual Arts Festival, Swamp Circus, Hatherleigh Festival, BBC Springwatch, Holifair, Dorchester Play Day, Save Our World Festivals, etc. Another of his most popular workshops is the Junk Carnival! which he hosts from the Moroccan Pavilion at Festivals. Future projects include adapting a bus into a mobile workshop and Carnival Bus. To commission garden features, gates, etc., workshops, or to ask about creating something amazing from recycled materials, from ironwork furniture to theatre scenery! lateral thinking on practical matters, mending things precious but written off, customizing a van to live or travel in, workshops in skills from cob building to willow hurdles, Junk Carnivals, to hire the Moroccan Pavilion, or for play area construction (including correctly installing pre-ordered structures which have been incorrectly put together!) please e-mail; enyawmagic@yahoo.co.uk JO BARLOW Jo Barlow of Wild@rt was raised in a wood in Wales and made his first roundhouse aged 19, and so has been building roundhouses, carving wood, and making and collecting acoustic musical instruments all his life. An accomplished visual artist and musician/singer/songwriter, he attended Art School in London and Dartington College of Arts, studying music. He built many of the structures in Woodhouse Wood in Carmarthenshire. His longterm commitments to wood, to art and to music made it natural for him to create traditional Dark Age lyres and African M’biras from found wood. All his work uses recycled, found and fallen wood, except where sustainably managed – often from the wood where he grew up. Jo has executed a number of large scale works and commissions including a roundhouse at Godney in Somerset and large rose pergola for a private estate in West Wales. His most recent commission was running woodcrafts workshops and make your own musical instruments workshops for disadvantaged teenagers, as part of ‘The Wicked Project’ for Tir Coed in West Wales, commissioned by Pembrokeshire County Council. Over the summer he taught one of his popular summer roundhouse building courses in Woodhouse Wood. Most recently he designed and fashioned the parts of a musical boat sculpture for a play area in St. Buryan, Cornwall. He is available for architectural commissions of roundhouses and other eco-building structures – including building houses to live in. He builds summerhouses, gazebos, rustic pagodas, pergolas and smaller commissions such as barbecue areas, swings, meeting benches, mobile sculptures, etc.. He holds roundhouse building and wood carving workshops and has a special interest in musical sculptures. Jo can also be commissioned to make lyres or m’biras, holds workshops in making these instruments, and is available for gigs. His latest CD ‘Man Animal’ can be ordered from Tidy Like Records and this site. He is available for musical workshops where children and adults can try their hand at playing his wonderful and unusual variety of musical instruments. He is an excellent communicator and teacher of skills. To commission a roundhouse, eco-building, wood structure, public art sculptures, play area, musical sculpture, swing or even shed, lyre, m’bira, or to ask about or commission workshops in building, carving, woodcrafts or instrument making, or to book Jo for a gig / buy a CD, please e-mail; mapepemusic@hotmail.com SOUND & MUSIC LINKO – aka Carl Cracknell, is a sound and spoken word artist and audio activist – rhymer in the rap tradition, and sampler of sounds and music to mix whole albums of original hip hop style audio. He has spent years collecting sounds, music of all kinds, spoken word clips and noises. He also has an interest in music for the deaf, and has a Level 1 British Sign Language qualification. Albums include the Whelkism presents series; ‘The Great Eclectic’ ‘CARE?’ ‘From Re;leaf to anxiety’ ‘Return of the Great Eclectic’ ‘Memento Mori: songs for the marble orchard’, and the following which have full colour collage style inlay/self designed covers - The Year Dot: An EP. 2003 Linko: Talk Turning Horse Lingo. 2004 Linko: I Speaka Da Linko. 2005 Linko: Battle Of Los Texeter. 2006 Memento Mori: 1542. 2007 South West Beets Union: Frm Ghosts Of X/ Past. 2008 His latest album is a strikingly sombre and echoingly dark spoken word album with sampled loops, Path8DeepImpacts. Impressive, haunting and unmissable…a unique experience – to be listened to with the volume up! He is currently making Path8DeepImpacts into a live show to be available for commission. If it comes near you, don’t miss it! Seriously – even if you hate spoken word events, you should be moved by this show. He has performed at the Glastonbury Festival, as Re;Leaf, one of The Lords of Misrule acts in the Poetry & Words Tent, Hay-on-Wye Festival Fringe, Holmbush Festival, Live Art Forum South West’s 3 Minute Warning, Plymouth Phoenix, Exeter Phoenix, Timepiece and 3 Fat Fish in Exeter, and has been featured on Vibraphonic Radio during the Vibraphonic Festival, amongst others. He was regular Thursday night DJ at the Velvet Lounge in Exeter, and currently does guest nights on both Phonic FM Radio and on Wednesday DJ nights at The Bamboo Garden in Exeter. He holds a degree in Fine Art from the University of Plymouth, and visual interventions include burning American flags (for which he was nearly sent down), billboard improvement, roadsign adaptation, and ‘The Junk Cross’ constructed one Easter out of flytipping waste – a huge cross in the Haldon Hills. Much of his work is stencil and graffiti based, and he also works with collage. Linko, or Mr. Linko to you, rarely smiles, but then he has a great deal to growl about. However, if he does smile at you, enjoy. To commission the Path8DeepImpacts show or to book Linko as an act for your festival, venue, or event, e-mail; philosophynotes1973@yahoo.co.uk SUFIBOY – aka Simon Egan is a sound artist, video artist, technologist and Mac Creative. He is a member of acclaimed improvisational group ‘Children of the Drone’, who have been featured on Radio 3’s ‘Mixing It’, done a great many gigs in all kinds of venues and at many festivals, including the Exeter tEXt Festival and Vibraphonic Festival. The group were formed as a result of meeting during collaborating on ‘Strange Bedfellows’ a Year of the Artist project ensemble put together by musician Philip Robinson. Simon holds a BA in IT. He was commissioned to create ‘Dance the Body Electric’ for the B.A. Festival of Science, involving wiring up three professional dancers (two of whom also worked for the Fran Barbe Dance Co.) with electrodes, and then mixing the sound via computer, which was then responded to live by a film maker, who mixed video projections live, which them were projected through the dancers, who in turn improvised in response to the sound and visual projections, held at the Hotel Barcelona. He has worked as a radio producer for both Vibraphonic Radio, and Phonic FM, and done video projections for many shows including with members of the Collective. He also runs online marketing consultancy The Directory of Light, and has given workshops and lectures on online marketing for organizations including the Arts Council. He is currently insanely busy having been headhunted from his freelance Mac troubleshooter and web designer job as MacHelp, by Apple Mackintosh themselves, and now works for them as a Mac Creative, but he does still find time for some strange gigs, radio work, and seminars on online marketing. To commission Sufiboy’s sound art, seminars etc., e-mail; sufiboy23@gmail.com CRAFTSPEOPLE SONIA WATERS - Currently unavailable in the UK as in New Zealand Sonia Waters is a multi-talented craftswoman and traveller – she makes and sells ethical and fairtrade jewellery, getting her supplies from traders whom she personally vets in Thailand, making sure that those whom she buys from treat their workforce fairly, and often deals with women’s co-operatives. She also does hair braiding and temporary tattoos at festivals, fun days, and events. A fine seamstress, she makes unique handcrafted pixie hooded clothes for babies, toddlers, children and even adults, in beautiful colours. All these are made by Sonia herself, on old fashioned sewing machines with quality fabrics. Her tie dyed babygrows are all made from recycled material and dyed in traditional pans on the stove, stirred by hand. Sonia has travelled all over the world – originally from New Zealand, she has lived in Israel, Japan, India, been through Syria, America, Europe, hitching from France to Egypt, and too many countries to list, including chilling out on Prince Rainier’s yacht and touring Ireland as a fire dancer! before coming to live in the UK. One of those rare people for whom ‘the university of life’ actually means something, she has also studied Environmental Art and Craft at Bicton College, and makes a mean hurdle fence or wicker figure. She has sold her jewellery at many festivals including the Big Green Gathering, Larmer Tree Festival, Sidmouth Folk Festival, and Glastonbury Festival and is a member of the National Market Trader’s Federation. Sonia’s jewellery stall and Pixie Kid’s Clothes stall are both available for festivals, events, etc., as are hair braiding and temporary tattoos. Her charming and practical Pixie Clothes range is also available to shops. She holds workshops in allsorts of craft skills from felt making and dreamcatchers to crochet and poi twirling, especially for children. To enquire about her stalls or workshops, or to order her Pixie Kid’s Clothes for trade or retail, please e-mail; sonianz@hotmail.com http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Wolfland%20poems.htmhttp://www.simegen.com/writers/spokes/October%202006/spokes_page_03.htmlhttp://www.montereybaypoetry.com/wolfland.htmlhttp://www.montereybaypoetry.com/wolfland.htmlhttp://www.ficklemuses.com/fiction/2008-04-20.htmlhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_/202-8867983-3605454?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=north+yorkshire+one+nine+nine&x=0&y=0http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/content/articles/2006/08/10/witches_of_bideford_feature.shtmlhttp://more.poetrysociety.org.uk/landmark/display.php?id=2128mailto:widsith@blueyonder.co.ukhttp://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/news/deleuze_and_literature/schedule/http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/news/deleuze_and_literature/schedule/http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/news/deleuze/schedulehttp://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/research/phillit/pastactivities/http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/research/phillit/pastactivities/http://deleuzeatgreenwich.blogspot.com/2007/03/strange-encounter-of-kant-and-deleuze.htmlhttp://deleuzeatgreenwich.blogspot.com/2007/03/strange-encounter-of-kant-and-deleuze.htmlhttp://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/deleuze/index.htmlhttp://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/deleuze/index.htmlmailto:su2044@blueyonder.co.ukhttp://www.forestofdean-sculpture.org.uk/events/archive/reveal/http://www.architectureweek.org.uk/projects.asp?RegionID=9&ProjectID=26http://www.mpecopark.co.uk/index.htmhttp://www.swampcircus.com/chyan/http://www.swampcircus.com/chyan/http://www.gwithianfarm.co.uk/http://www.ncb.org.uk/Page.asp?originx6812in_1832991054480z44q6370913124http://www.ncb.org.uk/Page.asp?originx6812in_1832991054480z44q6370913124mailto:melinahubbard@yahoo.co.ukmailto:enyawmagic@yahoo.co.ukhttp://www.woodhousewood.co.uk/http://www.tircoed.org.uk/http://www.tircoed.org.uk/http://www.tidylikerecords.com/mailto:mapepemusic@hotmail.commailto:philosophynotes1973@yahoo.co.ukhttp://www.childrenofthedrone.net/http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/scienceinthecity/dancebodyelectric.htmhttp://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/scienceinthecity/dancebodyelectric.htmhttp://phonicfm.com/mailto:sufiboy23@gmail.comhttp://www.nmtf.co.uk/mailto:sonianz@hotmail.comshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4shapeimage_2_link_5shapeimage_2_link_6shapeimage_2_link_7shapeimage_2_link_8shapeimage_2_link_9shapeimage_2_link_10shapeimage_2_link_11shapeimage_2_link_12shapeimage_2_link_13shapeimage_2_link_14shapeimage_2_link_15shapeimage_2_link_16shapeimage_2_link_17shapeimage_2_link_18shapeimage_2_link_19shapeimage_2_link_20shapeimage_2_link_21shapeimage_2_link_22shapeimage_2_link_23shapeimage_2_link_24shapeimage_2_link_25shapeimage_2_link_26shapeimage_2_link_27shapeimage_2_link_28shapeimage_2_link_29shapeimage_2_link_30shapeimage_2_link_31shapeimage_2_link_32shapeimage_2_link_33shapeimage_2_link_34shapeimage_2_link_35shapeimage_2_link_36shapeimage_2_link_37shapeimage_2_link_38shapeimage_2_link_39shapeimage_2_link_40shapeimage_2_link_41

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