Speech bubbles: words will float away and vanish unless they are saved. I rescue words, and subverting the traditional sampler, make hand sewn text embroideries of overheard conversations using Foucault's notion of Heterotopias, or other places, outside the norms of behaviour, recording notable statements, or what others have said to me.

I use my own experience of blindness/partial sight creating hand-tinted photomontages from performative photographs to express the absurdity, humour, and terror of a world where animals appear spontaneously, where everything else is bathed in fog.

Exhibitions:   Guerrilla Gallery, Dundee: ‘I Believe My Own Eyes.’ June 2010.   Central Station showcase/book launch, The Arches, Glasgow, 2010   ‘Whitelines’ Feb 2011. ‘Am I Safe?’ photomontage selected for group show. Whitespace Gallery Edinburgh.   'Hard To Say Goodbye/China' Diptych at Bury International Festival of Text Art, May 2011. Bury Art Gallery.   'A Travel Bag,' 'Being Bilbao Bunny' Part of Packing and Mourning, group show as part of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art vie The Mutual Charter, St Jude's Hotel, April 2012.   Fiction:   ‘I Hate This City’ (2003) and ‘Help Me’ (2004) published by Comma Press. Accepted invitation to read at Commonwealth Literature Festival 2004.   Journalism   From 1989 onwards freelance contributor to inter alia: The New Musical Express, The Manchester Evening News and The Big Issue.   December 2007 – Present: columnist for ‘The Guardian’ and ‘Guardian Unlimited’ writing about culture, art, housing, and finance. http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/pennyanderson   1991 – Present: Contributor and journalist for BBC Radio’s 1, 4 and 5.   Online   Creator and writer of the RenterGirl blog: winner of Best New Blog as part of the Manchester Literature Festival .   Qualifications   September 2010: Masters in Research in Creative Practice. GlasgowSchool of Art.  

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