My visit to MUDAM in Luxembourg was really fantastic… a special thanks to Annick and Valérie for making me so welcome. Here are the results of my stay, two sprawling maps of MUDAM’s relationships, connections, location and activities. Obviously I couldn’t get everything in, but I hope it gives a sense of the vibrant, imaginative and [...]

This is old news really I suppose, but I just happened to notice it’s exactly a year since I was involved in the planning and design of The Great Tate Mod Blog, an online repository of visuals, ideas and discussions which has, in theory at least, been feeding directly into the considerations and deliberations of [...]

Had a good day last Thursday at Tate Britain, chipping in with my take on gallery interpretation for the Visual Dialogues Young People’s Programme. Eventually, the participants (A and AS level students from London, Manchester, Birmingham, Sheffield and Newcastle) will be developing their own forms of interpretation for the gallery. But as a way of showing [...]

I’ll be working with my friends at the very exciting new Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg – or MUDAM for short – in November. I’ve been asked make a creative contribution to their Sponsor’s Night.

I’m pleased to say I’ll be contributing to this year’s Visual Dialogues programme at Tate Britain. Run annually in partnership with regional collections, Visual Dialogues allows and encourages young people aged between 15-18 to make dynamic interventions into gallery spaces, creating imaginative tools for interpretation and audience engagement. For 2008′s project, Tate Britain is working in [...]

Well, the end of last week saw a great couple of days at Tate Modern working on Audiotours to iPhones, a workshop and conference for the museums and galleries community. Thursday’s session was a very productive workshop involving around 25 people working at the busy and fast-changing intersection of museum interpretation and mobile technologies.  I [...]

I’ll be participating in the symposium ‘From Audiotours to iPhones‘ at Tate Modern on 4th and 5th September.

Two weeks ago I was in Venice at the Communicating the Museum conference, organised by Agenda, providing a visual synthesis of the keynote presentations and meeting lots of interesting people from the worlds of branding, advertising and museums. Drawing pictures in 34°C heat in front of a couple of hundred people and surrounded by Tintoretto masterpieces made it [...]

I’ll be appearing at the Communicating the Museum conference in Venice this June in the role of Graphic Facilitator.