2008-2015 Golden Square, Birmingham (with BPN Architects & Capita Lovejoy)

“The poem is a made object and not a jeweller’s display window.” – Max Jacob, 1916

PDF: Golden Square, Birmingham

PDF: Golden Square_II A1 boards_small

PDF: Golden Square Exhibition Boards

PDF: Golden Square | Joe Holyoak 18.05.2015

LINK: Fonts In Use / Poem at Golden Square, Birmingham

‘Found Line’, 2004 (Cardiff)

“The first stage in this undertaking will be to carry over the principle of montage into history. That is, to assemble large-scale constructions out of the smallest and most precisely cut components.”

– Walter Benjamin

Drawing 07.08.2023

2010-2011 The Quick & The Dead (with Mick Thacker)

Colours of buttons produced in the Jewellery Quarter / Sketchbook #009: detailing Rev John Homes observation that, “it seemed as if God had created man only for making buttons.”

PDF: ‘The Quick and The Dead’

LINKS: ‘Marshallian’ 01.10.07 Albion Street architect art Australia Birmingham boundary builder button maker carder cemeteries co-operation craft cultural production culture customs death district draper dressmaker Evans fields of force Filière fragile Frederick Street gas fitting gilder gold gold ring Guilloché Icknield Street information ivory button japanner jeweller jewellery Jewellery Quarter Key Hill local distinctiveness manufacturing material music network networks Newman Brothers Coffin Works ornament pawnbroker pearl pearl button polisher presser production regeneration research Rose Rose Villa Tavern saddler silversmith sinker site social solderer stamper stories strategies texts timber tombstones trades turner urban Warstone Lane watch key workers

PDF: The Quick

PDF: The Dead

PDF: The In-Between

PDF: 2010 Q&D | Field of Potential

2009 Network Rail National Centre, Milton Keynes (with Capita Lovejoy)

PDF: 2007–2009 | MK & Springfield

PDF: 2008 Fairfield Public Art

2012 Snow Hill Gateway, Birmingham (with Define)