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Artist
Philip Davenport explores the space between poetry and visual art, often in collaboration with artists, designers, musicians. His collection Heart Shape Pornography, poems ‘reclaimed’ from porn, was first exhibited in 1998 in a book art exhibition, handwritten into a diary. The piece has been rewritten onto apples especially for the Ritual Bodies intervention in the Walker. The Imaginary Missing People poems, made by collaging missing persons notices with his own diaries, were billposted in Manchester, London and Brighton in the period 1998-2001 as part of various art shows and were published by experimental poetry imprint Writers Forum in 1999. In 2002, Davenport collaborated with transvestite artist Phil Sayers and designer Gary Parkinson to make the Vogue Divine poster and postcard series, distributed throughout Manchester as part of the 2002 Manchester Poetry Festival. Throughout 2004, Davenport is Poet in Residence at Bury Art Gallery, where as well as writing poems he is helping to curate The Text, a festival of text art and experimental poetry in 2005. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.