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This saturday saw the opening event of the Kules residency programme in Stoke On Trent. Their aim is to use the empty industrial spaces around the city for short term art projects.
The opening event was well attended and featured a number of artists known from Staffordshire University. It was a very social event to meet and greet familiar faces and to meet some new ones.
I happended to be upstairs looking at the work of the artist Leigh Clarke when he was preparing to put on his make up for a shammen singing performance piece. I happen to be a professional face painter so I offered my services to Leigh at this point and by helping him out, I managed to make another connection and meet the artist. It goes to show, you never really know who you are talking too. Once fully painted somewhere between a skull and a monkey, Leigh sang to the audience in an acapelo style commenting in a very engaging way about dry social observations of our time, highlights including Chicken in a box and Mother F****** Gangster.
Well worth a visit. If you are local, come and see what is in the show, the large scale installation by Leigh Clarke is not to be missed.
