I was a co-founder of UHC Collective, an arts/activist and ethical marketing organisation which began in 2003. I was involved as an activist researcher and artist and acted as account manager for marketing operations. I left to pursue my own projects in 2007.
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UHC – Collective Works
UHC Collective Works is a monograph documenting UHC’s OpenCity, anti-regeneration activist art work during 2005/6. The project critiqued the housing-led, neoliberal regeneration of Manchester, identifying increasing inequality and the transfer of public assets in to private hands. I worked as an artist and lead researcher on the project. This is me with a modified shopping trolley displaying anti-regeneration propaganda messages on LED signs.
Bus Tour around ‘The Arc of Opportunity’
A UHC Collective, guided tour around the ‘Arc of Opportunity‘ a short-lived regeneration programme located in South Manchester – part of UHC’s OpenCity project.
UHC – Don’t Buy Their War
A UHC Collective, art activist campaign we ran in the run up to the 2003 Iraq war linking consumerism, economic growth and war. I contributed research and some art work.