Shedman is John Davies, a writer and poet based in Brighton, England.
John writes poetry and fiction. He explores out-of-the-ordinary stuff within the ordinary - the quirky, the peripheral. He maps and narrates connections.
He's fascinated by the tension and connections between two apparently separate categories, the natural and the artificial.
John's alter ego is inspired by all kinds of sheds - garden sheds and aircraft hangars, shed antlers or skins, shedding tears or shedding light. He's writing a book about his shed experience. On his travels researching the subject he creates enthralling workshops and lively events that explore the place of the shed - and literature - in everyone's hearts, using sheds as the focus for a unique interaction with people of all ages, cultures and backgrounds.
"A refreshingly different approach to an arts residency…a memorable mixed media installation with a very human face…His residency was a motivating and energising process for all involved... I can recommend him unhesitatingly..."
John Cooper Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton.
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A finalist in the Scottish Poetry Competition and Orbis Rhyme International and highly commended in the Oxford Poetry Competition, John has read his work at events and festivals in the UK and Ireland.
John has run creative writing workshops in shops, schools, museums, libraries and prisons. At Runnymede International Literary Festival 2006, John ran a highly successful series of creative writing workshops. He has developed workshops combining creative writing with other media such as Spy Game - a series of creative missions for disadvantaged young people in Bognor Regis, 2005. From 2004-05 John facilitated Arundel Writers Group.
He published a booklet of poems The nutter in the shrubbery through his award winning small press Pighog in 2002. It is due to be reprinted in 2006.
John's short stories have been broadcast on BBC local radio. He has developed a series of historical detective stories, The Lichfield Mysteries, set in the late eighteenth century.
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'The Booth Museum was originally built as Mr Booth's shed in which to house his collection of stuffed birds. Poems are a kind of stuffed bird'.
John Davies
Notes for Project Shed 26.3.03
Photos © Chris Cousins 2005 www.chriscousins.plus.com
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