The ideas behind the work
Writing on art, participation, industrial places and imagined worlds. Read the arguments, provocations and working principles behind the practice.
10 September 2026
A field manual on leaving room for the viewer. Use absence, shadow and missing information to invite interpretation without closing the case.
Read this piece : Operational Handbook on Making Art 05: Leave Gaps
5 September 2026
A field manual on repetition, expectation and ritual. Return to a shape, phrase or image until it becomes a pattern people recognise and anticipate.
Read this piece : Operational Handbook on Making Art 04: Repetition Repetition Repetition
28 August 2026
A field manual on making work recognisably yours. Find the recurring decisions, rough edges and habits that leave traces across everything you make.
Read this piece : Operational Handbook on Making Art 03: Leave Fingerprints
21 August 2026
A field manual on cultural salvage and reassembly. Borrow from the images, language and debris around you, then change what they do by putting them together.
Read this piece : Operational Handbook on Making Art 02: Steal Without Shame
19 August 2026
A field manual on skill, rawness and working with what you have. Make the version you can make, and let technique serve the work.
Read this piece : Operational Handbook on Making Art 01: Do It the Way You Can Do It
18 August 2026
The preface to the Operational Handbook on Making Art: a field notice for makers, meddlers and unauthorised operators. Stop waiting. Commence production.
Read this piece : 00 : Operational Handbook on Making Art: Before Commencing Operations
11 August 2026
A zine about dead art, living culture, copying, ownership, originality, participation and the urge to make something anyway.
Read this piece : Art Is Dead: Don’t Consume Its Corpse
6 August 2026
A manifesto against nostalgic Northern art that preserves mills, workers and streets while painting out ownership, conflict, resistance and harm.
Read this piece : Against the Nice Northern Painting
30 July 2026
An introduction to Sootpunk: working-class industrial worlds where folklore, accumulated technology and anarcho-punk coexist. A way of imagining the North without turning its past into harmless nostalgia.
Read this piece : What Is Sootpunk?