I’ve got lots of different ‘work heads’ on at the moment – I’m a photographer and have been enjoying working at the London Festival of Photography which is entering its last few days. Spending that much time in a room with photographs allows you to get to know them intimately. Check the website for events running over the weekend and into July: lfph.org (most exhibitions are free). I’ll also be making a pilgrimage to the newly reopened Photographer’s Gallery to catch their Burtynsky exhibition before it closes on Sunday (thephotographersgallery.org.uk) - technically jaw-dropping large scale images which really strike home the environmental effects of our greed for oil. On Saturday I’ll be busy documenting the opening of the permanent version of the wonderful Peckham Peace Wall project, instigated by brilliant inclusive theatre company Peckham Shed (peckhamshed.com). 

When I don’t have my photographer’s work head on I am an arts marketer and I’m currently working on the Wide Open School programme at Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery (wideopenschool.com) where I’m dead excited about seeing Japanese chef Daisuke Hayashi and artist Shimabuku talking about how ‘Art and Cooking are Similar’ on Sunday – I’m a sushi-phobe (the rice bothers me) but am fascinated by Japanese aesthetics. (Maybe heightened because I’m reading Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle?) Details of the class here: http://bit.ly/LSHd1X I also have a wish-list of classes I’d love to get to. I want to consider the possibility of formlessness as a type of edge with Darius Miskys (who established the first Lithuanian Cricket team) on the 29th June (wideopenschool.com/Skiving) as long as it doesn’t clash with Jochen Dehn and Francesco Pedraglio’s exploration of the appearance and disappearance of objects, also on the 29th (wideopenschool.com/Abstract objects and the ship of Theseus). Looking towards next week I’ll be trying to inveigle my way into photography legend Wolfgang Tillmans’ talk on the science behind his art (wideopenschool.com/The Scientific Fundamentals of Photography) and considering what the life-cycle of an artwork is with Pascale Tayou (wideopenschool.com/From inception to death: the nature and life cycle of artworks). That’s not even 1/10th of the classes that are going on so check the website for all details.

I’d also like to slide in a recommendation for new theatre company 11:18’s Mean Between Times (eleven-eighteen.com), part of the Greenwich and Docklands International Festival – an audio and visual theatrical experience that takes place on a real train journey. My voice appeared in the first incarnation of this wonderful piece but sadly I didn’t make the cut this time – my perception of the city changed drastically as a result of their audio interventions.