Intimations

Home to a king (3) nest-boxes can now be seen in Springburn Park (Glasgow), George Square Gardens (Edinburgh), Cove park (Scotland), Killhope Lead Mining Museum (County Durham), and St Andrews (as part of Stanza). These feature poem-clues composed on the names of common British tree species. The nest-boxes are painted in colours specified from leaves. The project will be documented in a forthcoming book. The nest-boxes are available as free downloadable card cut-outs.

Alec is currently exhibiting at ARC (Sofia) in thoughts within thoughts, a duet with Pravdoliub Ivanov (21 June - 26 July). Works include rock-paper-scissors (neon and prints), 100 Year Star-Diary, Bread (Alien / Yield), Crossword Trees, a wordrawing and a new wooden poem-object, these/words/arranged/in/these/positions (after Wittgenstein).

Recent publications include two fields of wheat seeded with a poppy-poem, a poem commentary describing this Milton Keynes Gallery off-site project. A digital animation with mesostics and photographs can be viewed on-line.

your name here (2004) was included in the recent exhibition Neon, at the National Glass Centre. Another neon, commissioned by the White Lights Festival (Derry), held within pure light was installed on the historic Guildhall (site of the Saville enquiry into ‘Bloody Sunday’) and is now featured in prism at designed & made gallery, Newcastle. Northern Canon awarded Alec their first major North-East art commission for a neon circle poem, night for day, which is now installed in Trinity Gardens (Newcastle).

The audio the printed path, a poetry reading at Tate Britain for Film and Video Umbrella, is now available. A new sequence of photographs of the Hill of Streams letterbox walk by Allan Pollock-Morris can now be viewed, and a new audio work made in collaboration with Susan Maris, featuring the renga word-map of the walk and field recordings of the River Dalwhat and burns that flow into it.