Grimmer & Steele Trust

I have been collaborating wth visual artist Francesca Steele since February this year on a project based around ideas of care and convalescence. The work has developed through a series of process based performance experiments, at NRLA, Glasgow MAP live, Carlisle and Arnolfini, Bristol. We have just had some photographs taken at Waygood Gallery and Studios by Ian Clarke and have come up with the name 'Grimmer & Steele Trust' for our collaboration. The work aims to operate somewhere at the point where genuine care becomes a vulgar display, anaesthetising the viewer but also provoking feelings of disquiet. We are interested in exploring: rehab, group and individual therapies, religion and cults, self-help and hypnotherapy and have begun wearing red uniforms as a trademark.