PORTRAIT BOOTH

For the Open Studios event 2014, I came up with the idea of making a portrait booth. This was something I had done whilst working on a massive performance/installation about being on the dole in an old printworks in Vauxhall London in the mid 1980s with artist/performer Robin Whitmore who I shared a house with at the time. We had made a portrait booth where an artist instead of a camera produced your portrait. This seemed like an idea worth revamping. Ian Rolls, Alasdair Healey and I built and decorated the booth which then took pride of place in the Royal Square for the launch week end of Open Studios with great success, we even had several "just married" couples coming straight from the registry office! 

The booth has since been a feature of the Spice Fayre and the Branchage Film Festival.