Born: Norwich, Norfolk. UK. 1956  British/Canadian citizenship

Education:
CACDP Level One Certificate in British Sign Language 2003
Post Graduate research in sculpture at C.G.C.H.E. 1994 to 1996.
M.A. Fine Art, University of Northumbria at Newcastle.  1992/93.
Art's Sake Inc. (O.C.A.)Toronto, Canada.1976/79. B.A.  S.S.G.D. 1975/78.

PRESENT AND ONGOING WORK

VISIONSIGN.ORG
Film Making, Theatre and Poetry focusing on Sign Language and Deaf Culture in the South West Region (UK)

the SIGN HEAR project, (ongoing)
Founder, designer and administrator. Sign Hear has two main objectives:
1) to promote the use of British Sign Language (BSL) on the internet.
2) to provide an archive space for creative writing in British Sign Langauge.

This project has been resourced through 2002 by Watershed Media Center, The Learning and Skills, Council South West, and Bristol 2008.

(June 2003 to September 2003)
Film Making Commission
for Statement Media Arts Development, Bath to make a silent film for outdoor projection (Signs of Life) through Bath Adult and Community Education Service, (working with a group of Deaf adults) to be premiered at Bath Festival, 2003 (October). Funded by RNID, and Statement Media and Arts Development.

(August 26th to 29th, 2003)
Short documentary video commission.
Deaf Youth Theatre Workshops working with Sandra Barefoot (Travelling Light Theatre) Deaf children, age group 5-16 years. At Kingswood Foundation, Bristol.

VisionSign (ViSign) Deaf Film Festival,
Watershed Media Center and The Cube Cinema, Bristol. October 3-5th, 2003.
Fund raising, publicity, film selection, administration, in collaboration with David Ellington, Sam Dore, and Watershed.

SKILLS

Digital and Computing Skills (both creative and teaching abilities)

HTML authoring
Website Management & Design
Video Editing: iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premier, & Certificate 1 in AVID editing (1998)
Sound Editing: Sound Edit 16
Fireworks 4
Photoshop
Quark Express
MiniCAD (Computer Aided Design)

Workshop & Training Skills

Poetry workshops
Performance workshops
Sculpture workshops
Film and Video workshops

Fabrication Skills

Welding (Arc, TIG & MIG) with Ferrous and non-ferrous materials
Carpentry (general woodworking, carving and sculpture)

OTHER SKILLS/TRAINING

CACDP Level One Certificate in British Sign Language
M.A. Fine Art, University of Northumbria at Newcastle.  1992/93.

RECENTLY COMPLETED PROJECTS

Here nor There @DIALOGUE,
"Where R U?" Performance and Event commission from Independant Artist Network, (part of the DIALOGUE project) Bristol City Docks, July 2003

Live Art Workshop (one day) in Botany and Gardening @ George Dixon International School, Birmingham, May 15th, 2003 with children age group 12-16. Commissioned by Ikon Gallery, and Creative Partnerships, "Look Who's Talking/Paydirt", Solo Live Art commissioned by Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.
(March 2003)

The 3rd "3 Minute Warning" event, at the Cube Cinema, Kings Square. Part of the annual Live Art Festival, "Inbetween" , commissioned by Arnolfini, Bristol, February 2003.

Presentations/workshops at various Symposia Festivals & Seminars:

examples:

F I L E (festival internacional de linguagem eletronica)
Paço das Artes, Institute for the Contemporary Arts,Sao Paulo,  August 7 to 23rd, 2003
Furtherfield Networking, Hoxton Square, London, Saturday 14th June 2003
The Sign Hear Project. Interpreted presentation on "Promoting the use of British Sign Language on the Internet", Watershed Media Center, Bristol, January 27th 2003.
...Here Nor there... Georgian Studies Day (symposium) Southville Center, Bristol 2002
12x12 (Live Art webstream event) UWIC, Cardiff, Time Based Arts. May 2002. Title of work: "DATA STREAM PURE CORRUPT"
Short Call Media Festival, Kibla Multimedia Center, Maribor, Slovenia, September 2002
Seminar in Creative Net Art for 2nd year students in Graphic Design, University of the West of England, Bower Ashton Campus, June 2002.
Seminar in Creative Collaborative Practice for 3rd year students in Cultural Studies, University of the West of England, St Matthais Campus, January 2002.
[neo(tech)logisms] Mediaterra Symposium, Athens 2000, and 2001
Vague but True, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol 2000.
The Georgian Codex, The Little Academy, Tbilisi, Rep. of Georgia 1998
Various Seminars in "The Relations Between Sculptural Installations and Their Locations, Cheltenham and Goucester College of Higher Education (1994/96)
Trust, Doubt and Desire, seminar, University of Northumbria, Newcastle (1992/93)

OTHER PROJECTS

Founding member of the Here Nor There Project, a collective of Visual Artists, Musicians, Web programmers, Performers and Poets.
"from collective resources comes collective product and collective authorship"
Projects have included the production of Radio Broadcasts (Radio Flora, part of Balance 2000, Hannover, Germany) Film Festivals (Short Call/MiniKino, Maribor, Slovenia, 2002). Three Electric December projects (Watershed), the last of which (2001) was titled "Timepiece" and included a series of poems subtitled "Timepieces".
"Orbital: a postcard to space travel" (2001) a collaboration with web artist Neil Jenkins, in which the words of the poem Orbital arrive on screen in an order relevant to your connection and location in relation to the World Wide Web.

Published in a variety of media including: book, audio CD, CDRom, desktop poetry calendar, video, Internet publications, and websites.
Worked as a writer, poet and visual artist in Bristol since 1985, with experience in workshops, tutorials and seminars, written for stage and screen, as well as performing my own work in "readings", Live Art and other public contexts.

Internet listings and reviews:
electronic literature directory
(type in "dunlop")
virtual memorial
 
Mediaterra Symposium, Athens (2001 and 2002)

virtual geographies

networking project/watershed (2001)

drunken boat.com issue 5

berlinalle film festival/
Poetry collaboration with Film Maker Thomas Bartels (2000)

artists fro peace justice and liberty (failure of the imagination) (2001)

Arnolfini, Bristol/vague but true Exhibition (film and performance, 2000)

neural.it (e zine)

send and receive/Winnepeg, Canada. Live Webcasting Event (2002)

NOEMA Technology and Society (e zine)

balance 2000, catalogue hanover

6 small screens Exhibition, Watershed 2000

Exposition Miv@rt/Bristol 1993

National Review of Live Art (1990)
http://www.pads.ahds.ac.uk:81/NrlaPads/multiple/90_LovejoyDunlop.html
http://www.newmoves.co.uk/archives/nrla_archive/ 1990_history.htm

 F I L E (festival internacional de linguagem eletronica) .
Paço das Artes,Institute for the Contemporary Arts,Sao Paulo,  August 7 to  23rd, 2003
 (DATA STREAM PURE CORRUPT. First written and performed, UWIC, Cardiff, Time Based Arts. May 2002.)

http://www.drunkenboat.com/db5/index.html

http://www.herenorthere.org/orbital

Selected publications   (contact  switch2@blueyonder.co.uk for further information)

Publications:

TIMELINES
"for the good in every day"
a calendar anthology of edited lines from many poems.
"Timelines" is a handy desktop thought provoker. And, of course, as it's perpetual, you can carry on using it forever."
R. Askew, VENUE Magazine, 23/8/02
GBP 6.00 + 1.99 p.p. (£7.99)

FREE WORLD WHAT (paperback)
"Violent deities and their disciples
have no reserve,
and cannot find a seat among equals here."
includes:
Dear Hannah
D.O.B.
transmit/interrupt/farm
Syl and Ted's Excellent Adventure
and more...
GBP 5.00 + 1.99 p.p (£6.99)

NAUGHT TOWARDS ZERO (paperback)
"I say: 'I want to be different.'
You say: "They're all the same."
Strike me down individually,
scatter the prey/group them in herds...
apartheid evolved."
includes:
I Don't think racism does the evolution of our species any good
Here nor There poems
and more...
GBP 5.00 + 1.99 (£6.99)

FREE WORLD WHAT audio CD

an assortment of vocal poems, and soundscapes

including:
Sex and death radio phone in
Walking the World War Dog
the Four Horsemen
Ten
and others...

WEATHER'S FINE audio CD

includes:
Lying Ally
Mr. Mountain
Faith Full
House Wear
and others