Eccles shelter under threat – Big Issue North

Posted on February 26, 2019

“This place offers a level of stability that many of us wouldn’t otherwise have. There are people in here who are willing and capable, they just haven’t been given the opportunities, for various reasons.

“We’ve got a lad in here who has been working full-time since Christmas, and he’s been able to hold that job down because of having somewhere to stay. Another resident has just found a local labouring job.

“We’ve got people who arrived, straight out of the doorways, holding a single plastic bag but now, thanks to donations from the public, they have managed to get some belongings – a few pairs of jeans, shoes and boxer shorts. These things make them feel a bit more human again. It doesn’t feel fair to strip them of their humanity all over again.” Stacey Martindale

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Yarl’s Wood: Behind closed doors , for Big Issue North

Posted on March 6, 2018

Inside the hunger strike happening at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre.

Not in the script – the deadly rise of painkiller addiction

Posted on January 25, 2018January 25, 2018

I’ve recently looked into the rise in dependency on opioid painkillers among patients who have been prescribed them by GPs for Big Issue North. Click below to read the story on the magazine’s website.

Universal Credit – Big Issue North

Posted on November 8, 2017November 8, 2017

I wrote a piece about the calculated cruelty that is the new Universal Credit system for Big Issue North.

Recent cuttings

Posted on August 9, 2017

I’m epically failing on the blogging front these days. It might not seem like it but I am still alive and working – I’ve just become very poor at sharing said work. Much of my work at the moment is for the Big Issue North. Here are a few recent pieces.

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Final few weeks of Salford Roma show

Posted on March 30, 2016

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There’s only a few weeks left of my Arts Council-funded Roma exhibition at Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Turn Sideways in the Wind. This tells the stories of three young Roma migrants to Greater Manchester and ends on 24 April. Editing the work and putting together the show was a huge learning experience and I feel lucky to have been given this opportunity. It was also really great to see the project participants look at the work on the walls. If anyone is in the Greater Manchester area over the coming weeks and fancies a look, more information about the gallery can be found here. It’s right next to Salford Crescent train station, just a few minutes from Manchester city centre.

Turn Sideways in the Wind exhibition – opening.

Posted on January 4, 2016January 4, 2016

Thanks to all who made the effort to come to the gallery on 12 December and to the folks at Salford Museum who have made it look so good. It has been ace to see this work hanging on a wall and feedback from the two participants (of three) who have seen it has been extremely positive, which means more than anything else to me. The exhibition is on until 24th April, and entry is free of charge.