U N F O L D
U N F O L D is a stunning new multidisciplinary arts collaboration featuring illustration, animation, poetry, film, spoken word and music across digital and live music platforms.
I was commissioned to design a series of interactive poetry books for the project. I collaborated with animator Lizzy Rowlatt to bring the books to life as a series of animations.
U N F O L D P O E T R Y B O O K S E R I E S
I have designed and illustrated a series of six poetry books for UNFOLD
Each book has its own unique cut+fold design inviting the reader to sculpt a landscape of their own visual poetry. The poetry text on the reverse folds is incorporated into this interactive design.
Sunsets – Toby Thompson
you can see the fully animated book here
Searching – Toby Thompson
you can see the fully animated book here
In Red – Sarah Eliza
you can see the fully animated book here
All these words – Sarah Eliza
you can see the fully animated book here
Kate Tempest’s Brighton Festival 2017 & Certain Blacks’ Harlem Festival 2017
I am currently developing a new poetry book series for the new UnFold poets – Solomon OB, Laurie Ogden, Keiron Rennie and Sophia Thakur – from the visuals debuted at Kate Tempest’s Brighton Festival 2017 & Certain Blacks’ Harlem Festival 2017. Below is a sneak peak of what is to come and the new series of EP covers.
Next event – HUH: Jerwood Composer+ Showcase
Curated by Jasmin Kent Rodgman
ERROLLYN WALLEN In Our Lifetime
SALENA GODDEN Shade from ‘The Good Immigrant’
JASMIN KENT RODGMAN FEAT. SALENA GODDEN New Work
AYANNA WITTER-JOHNSON FEAT. SOLOMON O.B New Work
LYRIX ORGANIX X SOPHIA THAKUR Feds (Poetry for the Man Dem) from ‘UnFold – EP2’
LYRIX ORGANIX X LAURIE OGDEN Superpowers from ‘UnFold – EP2’
George Jackson conductor
Salena Godden poet
Laurie Ogden poet
Sophia Thakur poet
Solomon O.B poet
Adam Jondelius baritone
LSO String Trio & Percussion
(You will be redirected to the Barbican Centre website)
Tickets: free entry, booking essential
Please note that finish times are approximate and subject to change.
HUH /hʌ,hə/ exclamation
– used in questions to invite agreement
– used in anger or surprise
Seamlessly crossing poetry, new music, song and rap, HUH presents some of today’s most powerful voices and celebrated artists from the UK’s music and spoken word scenes.
Errollyn Wallen’s hauntingly beautiful song In Our Lifetime, inspired by Nelson Mandela’s prison release, and poet Salena Godden’s unflinching essay Shade, set the concert’s themes of movement and identity.
Next up, Lyrix Organix: UnFold is spoken word as you’ve never heard, or seen, before. Influenced by jazz and contemporary classical, UnFold is a live collaboration between the UK’s most exciting young poets alongside LSO strings, percussion and emerging visual artists.
New works by the mesmerising MOBO Award Nominee Ayanna Witter-Johnson & Solomon O.B, and LSO Jerwood Composer Jasmin Kent Rodgman & Salena Godden, complete the soundscape with rap, soulful vocals and electronics.
Set within an interactive sound installation, HUH invites you to experience a truly unique concert.
