SIZE OF COMPANY
2–7 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to large

PERMANENT STAFF
Artist
Michael Mayhew

ARTISTIC POLICY
Michael Mayhew has worked across artforms and in diverse locations over the world. Mayhew makes work through a process of in-depth immersion, of gathering and collecting, of responding to the lives around him. Each work is influenced by its location and surrounding community.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
It's provocative, it's challenging, it moves and changes people – it's important, significant, and influential.
Lois Keidan, Director, Live Art Development Agency
One of the most original and searching artists currently working in the UK.
John E McGrath, Artistic Director, Contact, Manchester.
I was struck by the sense of yearning in it...your acknowledgement of yourself as a conduit for other people's stories.
Terry O'Connor, Forced Entertainment

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
The Gathering
A large-scale collaborative participatory event: six women and six electronic composers, 3 women and 3 electronic composers from location ~ listen to public stories of vanished people. These stories are then used to create a performance installation of sound. (2 days listening to stories, 120 min performance, 7 on the road.)
The Rituals of Being Not Being
Mayhew makes his body a living archive of memories of people who have vanished from our lives. Words are written on the body, washed away, the water cast into ice sculptures. A selection of words are tattooed onto his body. (Durational, 3 on the road.)

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
White Line
Large scale projection of a road movie crossing Australia. The screening is accompanied by a spoken word text. 90 minutes ~ 1 on the road.
The Arrival
Mayhew arrives and lives with you, makes work in response to the time, the living, the people, the environment & location. 2 on the road ~ production length to be discussed.

WRAP-AROUND
In-depth cultural engagement; examination of process + practice -workshops, lectures, residencies, collaborations.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2007 Australia: Something Tender
2007 Ireland: Rituals of Being Not Being
2008 Australia: Her name is Carole
2008 Australia: White Line

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Through out the year.