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About me

I make art, produce music,

write songs, shoot & edit video,

draw cartoons and create animation.

I lecture in Digital Art,

Film, Video and Animation.

I began cartooning as a teenager creating the comic Chuckles which was banned from distribution at school.

I had a cartoon published in a local newspaper soon afterwards.

I continued to create cartoons all through my life.

I created poster artwork and various punk band logos for the artists on the Birmingham music scene in the eighties.

I worked alongside Goldie and a group of graffiti artists on a mural project in Birmingham Bull Ring.

I was a founder member and synth player of the seminal Goth band Kabuki which eventually became Ausgang releasing the single 'I am a horse/My hair.

I was lead singer in Pavlov Dogs releasing the Eat Dog EP on our own label in '87 which was single of the week in NME at the time. We toured the UK and even ventured into Europe for several years in the late eighties/ early nineties.

I was co-founder and editor/contributor to the Fish Comic which ran for ten issues during the late eighties. Including the work of many different cartoonists such as Hunt Emerson and Graham Higgins it also featured work from writers such as Kathy Acker.

It was featured in both the Face and ID magazine and was an attempt to create a British 'coffee table comic' along the lines of Art Speigleman and Francois Muely's RAW comic in the US.

It gained great reviews and sold well through a distribution deal with Titan with a featured window in Virgin Megastore, London and appearances at several UK Comic conferences.

I was creating cartoons for all types of publications from one off title pieces to five panel strip work.

I worked on a project with recovering drug addicts and young offenders on a project called 'Pencil Case' which was commended by The Independent newspaper and was featured at the UK Comic Art Conference.

I was self employed as an Interior Designer creating paint finishes for homes across the Midlands with a specialism of restoring slate fire surrounds.

One of these surrounds was featured in an episode of BBC's 'Changing Rooms'.

I worked for Honeycomb Animation as a storyboard artist on series 6 of 'Wolves, Witches and Giants' for CITV.

After leaving Honeycomb I trained to be an Art teacher and began Lecturing in Art & Design in 2001.

In 2008 I had six paintings featured in the 'Space Invaders' exhibition.

I developed my projection mapping skills working alongside

Bafta awarded artist/ filmmaker Tal Rosner on LIGHTSTREAM in 2013 which transformed one of Exeter’s key streets with animations, projections and lighting.

In 2015 I exhibited a video piece at The Vitamin Clinic, London as part of the 'on nothingness' project.

I DJ/VJ'd as part of House music act Stratton & Oakmont between 2012-2018 and have projected various video work at many venues around the South West.

In 2015 I also worked with Crediton Festival to create projections.

I also assist Exeter College with animations and projections for events.

Since then I have assisted in establishing, co-ordinating and teaching creative film making, Digital Art and Animation at FE and Degree level.

I was co-ordinator of the annual Animated Exeter festival in 2016.

I am currently producing music and video work for MissMESTA, and have produced Honey Tonez, Stratton & Oakmont, Slard, the Terrible Strangers and The Vacuums.

I have recently released music as Wildmanwilz (my punk alter ego) and Useless Dancer (My Dance/House alter ego)

I filmed and edited the official video for 'Rewind Time' with the legendary punk group the Godfathers

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I am currently producing a You Tube animated series Margaret & Betty which is gaining in popularity.