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Dog Shelves (Various) I
performance, 2024

A performance involving five cover versions of floors, remade at tabletop scale. This first iteration (of what could be a long-running series) featured floors from:
Terminator II;
a villa on the Aventine Hill in Rome at the time of the Emperor Hadrian ('the unswept floor' mosaic is now in the Vatican Museum);
Galaxy Road, Cowplain, Hampshire,1979;
an imagined theatre during an imagined Jerôme Bel performance;
Antioch in Russell Hoban's Pilgermann.

The eight-minute-long performance ran on a loop throughout the evening, between other performances in Big Throw, at Matt's Gallery, December 2024.

Photograph by Fergus Carmichael.




Margaret Calvert Drives Out
Lyrics & video for Bas Jan
Fire Records, 2024

From Bas Jan's new album Back To The Swamp. Listen/order here.

Help in Cucumbers
A novella
JOAN publishing, 2023

Part collective memoir, part fictionalised survey of art made in the workplace, Help in Cucumbers is set in the London pub I worked in throughout the 1990s.

Order the book (and a tea towel!) from JOAN.

Where They Gather
A spoken word and music album with Kit Downes
October House Records, 2022



Image: Kit & Sally performing, aspirational portrait

Things in Limbo

She Described It to Death
A cancelled opera
Music: Matt Rogers
Libretto: Sally O'Reilly
Director: Anna Morrissey




What would happen if humans lived as long as trees? This chamber opera speculates on how near-immortality might change our understanding of what is truly important. Its complex story reflects our often-disastrous relationship with narrative itself.

Commissioned and not quite produced by Royal Opera and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.