Exhibitions, Commissions & Workshops, oh my!

We love making, and work with budgets big and small. Whatever you've got in mind, it's definitely worth asking!

2025

  • Jarvis Cocker Lantern

    Jarvis Cocker Lantern

    Our 2025 Ulverston Lantern Festival entry (Theme: Music). Made from withies, paper and glue.

  • Dave Myers Memory Booth

    Dave Myers Memory Booth

    Portable video message recording booth with greenscreen and full-sized motorbike!

  • Dock-ola: Jukebox Listening Post

    Dock-ola: Jukebox Listening Post

    A purpose built Jukebox Listening Post spinning sounds of Barrow's independent music.

2024

  • Coach Potato

    Coach Potato

    A high-five encouragement coach to motivate everyone on the Park Run.

  • Barrow Blitz

    Barrow Blitz

    3 Commissioned permanent installations. The Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness

  • Squat Pong

    Squat Pong

    Commissioned tourable art-cade cabinet, Full of Noises (FoN), Barrow-in-Furness

  • Technical Tales

    Technical Tales

    Commission to complement exhibition. Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness

  • Fon Logo Projector

    Fon Logo Projector

    A silent logo projector for Full of Noises to display in a performance space without the whirring noise from a projector.

  • Catalyst

    Catalyst

    Our unsuccessful proposal to create a Cumbria Arcadia! A series of pub-based installations covering every Cumbrian realm!

  • Place - Re:discover Barrow Exihbition

    Place - Re:discover Barrow Exihbition

    Group exhibition. Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness

2023

2022

  • Kendal Library Kaleida

    Kendal Library Kaleida

    Hypothesis - Kaleidoscopes are as cool now, as they were in 1817. Result: OH BOY! YES they've still got it! 😎

  • Minnie's Scrapbook - Digital Exhibits

    Minnie's Scrapbook - Digital Exhibits

    Three digital exhibits commissioned for the Minnie Pratt exhibition at the Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness.

  • Hill Fork

    Hill Fork

    An antidote to HIGH CONCEPT / LOW FUN public art proposals?

  • Squid Squad Coro

    Squid Squad Coro

    A Squiddy cluster of deep sea themed interactive cabinets! Made for the Coro's 2022 Incredible Journeys Exhibition.

  • Slow Water Kaleida Windermere

    Slow Water Kaleida Windermere

    Created for the inaugural Windermere Science Festival reacting to the theme of water.

  • The Curious Cabinet Florence

    The Curious Cabinet Florence

    Interactive digital exhibit for the Florence Arts Centre's Fruitful exhibition - 19th Feburary - 29th March 2022.

2021

2020

  • Fly Tizzie Fly

    Fly Tizzie Fly

    PAINT and PLAY! - A web game generated using artwork painted by users for the Jetty Museum.

  • Days Of Living Small

    Days Of Living Small

    Days of Living Small - A display of Cumbrian lockdown poetry.

  • Another Face Mess

    Another Face Mess

    Experimenting with webcam Kaleidoscopes.

  • World Record Foam Pie Fight

    World Record Foam Pie Fight

    On June 18th 2016, Ulverston splatted its way into the Record books by staging the World’s Largest Shaving Cream Pie Fight.

2019

  • Lasting Diaries

    Lasting Diaries

    Everyday history captured by eight Cumbrian diarists

  • The Gill Witch

    The Gill Witch

    Will you let the Gill Witch 'borrow' your face for Halloween?!

  • Nella Last Pixel Portrait

    Nella Last Pixel Portrait

    A community portrait of Nella Last, Housewife 49 in Barrow Library made from 25,000 ration token stickers (Up for Arts Cumbria/Cumbria Library Service).

  • Trumping Towers

    Trumping Towers

    Trump means Trump! A parping tower triggered by a golf ball for Barrow's Full of Noises festival.

  • Human Rollercoaster

    Human Rollercoaster

    Creating a human rollercoaster flash mob for Another Fine Fest.

  • Kendal Library Pixel Portraits

    Kendal Library Pixel Portraits

    A painted pixel portrait of John Ruskin and a sticker portrait of Jodie Whittaker created for the Get Creative Festival at Kendal Library.

  • Doodle And Dance

    Doodle And Dance

    Throwing shapes with some webcam trickery at Doodle and Dance in Carlisle for the Get Creative Festival with Zoe Leigh-Gadd of Dance Ahead.

  • Pixel Portrait Experiments

    Pixel Portrait Experiments

    First experiments making pixel portraits.

2018

  • Dalton Poppy Plaques

    Dalton Poppy Plaques

    In commemoration of the young men of Dalton killed in WW1. A Heritage Lottery Fund project with Up for Arts Cumbria & Dalton Town Council.

  • Multilated Selfie Booth

    Multilated Selfie Booth

    Mixing and matching eyes, ears and mouths in gruesome proportions.

  • Face Tracing At Sage Gateshead

    Face Tracing At Sage Gateshead

    Face Tracing in Gateshead for BBC Radio 3's 2018 Free Thinking Festival on the theme 'The One and the Many' for Get Creative with Up for Arts Cumbria.

  • Glowing Onions

    Glowing Onions

    How to make some beautiful biodegradable baubles.

2017

  • Ghost In The Machine

    Ghost In The Machine

    An echoing box of machinery with a ghost!

  • Banana Dance Flash Mob

    Banana Dance Flash Mob

    Dancing in the street with giant bananas! A fruity flashmob for Another Fine Fest 2017 created with Rachael Weaver, Sara Charlesworth and a whole basket of brilliant volunteer bananas.

  • Speed Of Life Paint By Numbers

    Speed Of Life Paint By Numbers

    A giant community paint by numbers created with PBN master Geoff Tristram for the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival with Up for Arts Cumbria.

2016

  • The Door Of Perception

    The Door Of Perception

    A digital thing showing people as a cloud of points or a line drawing for Ulverston's Candlelit Walk.

2015

2011

2009

  • Jarvis Cocker Lantern

    Jarvis Cocker Lantern

    Our 2025 Ulverston Lantern Festival entry (Theme: Music). Made from withies, paper and glue.

    9/20/2025
  • Dave Myers Memory Booth

    Dave Myers Memory Booth

    Portable video message recording booth with greenscreen and full-sized motorbike!

    6/21/2025
  • Dock-ola: Jukebox Listening Post

    Dock-ola: Jukebox Listening Post

    A purpose built Jukebox Listening Post spinning sounds of Barrow's independent music.

    2/28/2025
  • Coach Potato

    Coach Potato

    A high-five encouragement coach to motivate everyone on the Park Run.

    9/28/2024
  • Barrow Blitz

    Barrow Blitz

    A series of permanent installations for The Barrow Dock Museum's WW2 area.

    7/17/2024
  • Squat Pong

    Squat Pong

    Thigh powered pong! A commission from Full of Noises to create an arcade with a difference.

    5/27/2024
  • Technical Tales

    Technical Tales

    Audio recollections about Barrow Technical College presented on an interactive plan triggered by touch.

    5/16/2024
  • Fon Logo Projector

    Fon Logo Projector

    A silent logo projector for Full of Noises to display in a performance space without the whirring noise from a projector.

    4/3/2024
  • Catalyst

    Catalyst

    Our unsuccessful proposal to create a Cumbria Arcadia! A series of pub-based installations covering every Cumbrian realm!

    3/1/2024
  • Place - Re:discover Barrow Exihbition

    Place - Re:discover Barrow Exihbition

    Art Gene selected some of our work to represent the People's Museum at the Place - Re:discover Barrow Exhibition.

    2/9/2024
  • Relax Into 2050

    Relax Into 2050

    Adventures in an Optimistic Future. A playful installation set in a flourishing future where nature and technology work in harmony.

    12/8/2023
  • Dock Museum Listening Post

    Dock Museum Listening Post

    A listening post installation for The Dock Museum's Victorian Parlour using an old gramophone.

    7/18/2023
  • Digital Reflections

    Digital Reflections

    A day of family activities with a digital kaleidoscope and twisted reflections at Signal Film.

    7/9/2023
  • Windermere Science Festival 2023

    Windermere Science Festival 2023

    Three digital exhibits for a day of sciencey, arty fun!

    5/13/2023
  • Dock Museum Photo Portal

    Dock Museum Photo Portal

    A permanent live greenscreen installation (without the greenscreen!)

    5/6/2023
  • Duke Street People's Museum of Barrow

    Duke Street People's Museum of Barrow

    A pop-up Exhibition come Museum based around the oral history of Duke Street in Barrow-in-Furness.

    3/27/2023
  • Kendal Library Kaleida

    Kendal Library Kaleida

    Hypothesis - Kaleidoscopes are as cool now, as they were in 1817. Result: OH BOY! YES they've still got it! 😎

    12/9/2022
  • Minnie's Scrapbook - Digital Exhibits

    Minnie's Scrapbook - Digital Exhibits

    Three digital exhibits commissioned for the Minnie Pratt exhibition at the Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness.

    11/10/2022
  • Hill Fork

    Hill Fork

    An antidote to HIGH CONCEPT / LOW FUN public art proposals?

    11/1/2022
  • Squid Squad Coro

    Squid Squad Coro

    A Squiddy cluster of deep sea themed interactive cabinets! Made for the Coro's 2022 Incredible Journeys Exhibition.

    7/23/2022
  • Slow Water Kaleida Windermere

    Slow Water Kaleida Windermere

    Created for the inaugural Windermere Science Festival reacting to the theme of water.

    3/16/2022
  • The Curious Cabinet Florence

    The Curious Cabinet Florence

    Interactive digital exhibit for the Florence Arts Centre's Fruitful exhibition - 19th Feburary - 29th March 2022.

    2/6/2022
  • Dorothy Wordsworth Light Sculpture

    Dorothy Wordsworth Light Sculpture

    Dorothy Wordsworth Light Sculpture in Cockermouth for the Kirkgate Arts 'I Am Dorothy' project.

    11/21/2021
  • Kendal Mountain Festival Pixel Portrait

    Kendal Mountain Festival Pixel Portrait

    Pixel portraits of Alfred Wainwright and Shauna Coxsey in Kendal Library for Kendal Mountain Festival.

    11/20/2021
  • Dorothy Wordsworth School Pixel Portrait

    Dorothy Wordsworth School Pixel Portrait

    Four giant Dorothy Wordsworth portraits by 120 children with 13,000 stickers!

    10/20/2021
  • Last Human Coro Shed

    Last Human Coro Shed

    Humanity is no more, but LAMO (Local Automated Museum Outpost) Continues... Part of The Coro's Shed Installation 'Our Earth' project in Ulverston August 2021.

    8/3/2021
  • Kiitsugi To Mend With Oddness

    Kiitsugi To Mend With Oddness

    Like Kintsugi, but instead of mending pottery with gold, a toy was fixed with oddness!

    5/7/2021
  • The Gallery Box

    The Gallery Box

    A tiny digital art exhibit - our entry for The Great Big Art Exhibition.

    2/28/2021
  • Glasgow National Park City Exhibition

    Glasgow National Park City Exhibition

    Website made for a virtual photo exhibition for the Glasgow National Park City folks.

    1/17/2021
  • Fly Tizzie Fly

    Fly Tizzie Fly

    PAINT and PLAY! - A web game generated using artwork painted by users for the Jetty Museum.

    10/15/2020
  • Days Of Living Small

    Days Of Living Small

    Days of Living Small - A display of Cumbrian lockdown poetry.

    9/20/2020
  • Another Face Mess

    Another Face Mess

    Experimenting with webcam Kaleidoscopes.

    7/18/2020
  • World Record Foam Pie Fight

    World Record Foam Pie Fight

    On June 18th 2016, Ulverston splatted its way into the Record books by staging the World’s Largest Shaving Cream Pie Fight.

    1/17/2020
  • Lasting Diaries

    Lasting Diaries

    Everyday history captured by eight Cumbrian diarists

    12/31/2019
  • The Gill Witch

    The Gill Witch

    Will you let the Gill Witch 'borrow' your face for Halloween?!

    10/31/2019
  • Nella Last Pixel Portrait

    Nella Last Pixel Portrait

    A community portrait of Nella Last, Housewife 49 in Barrow Library made from 25,000 ration token stickers (Up for Arts Cumbria/Cumbria Library Service).

    9/10/2019
  • Trumping Towers

    Trumping Towers

    Trump means Trump! A parping tower triggered by a golf ball for Barrow's Full of Noises festival.

    8/9/2019
  • Human Rollercoaster

    Human Rollercoaster

    Creating a human rollercoaster flash mob for Another Fine Fest.

    6/24/2019
  • Kendal Library Pixel Portraits

    Kendal Library Pixel Portraits

    A painted pixel portrait of John Ruskin and a sticker portrait of Jodie Whittaker created for the Get Creative Festival at Kendal Library.

    5/18/2019
  • Doodle And Dance

    Doodle And Dance

    Throwing shapes with some webcam trickery at Doodle and Dance in Carlisle for the Get Creative Festival with Zoe Leigh-Gadd of Dance Ahead.

    5/9/2019
  • Pixel Portrait Experiments

    Pixel Portrait Experiments

    First experiments making pixel portraits.

    1/7/2019
  • Dalton Poppy Plaques

    Dalton Poppy Plaques

    In commemoration of the young men of Dalton killed in WW1. A Heritage Lottery Fund project with Up for Arts Cumbria & Dalton Town Council.

    11/11/2018
  • Multilated Selfie Booth

    Multilated Selfie Booth

    Mixing and matching eyes, ears and mouths in gruesome proportions.

    10/31/2018
  • Face Tracing At Sage Gateshead

    Face Tracing At Sage Gateshead

    Face Tracing in Gateshead for BBC Radio 3's 2018 Free Thinking Festival on the theme 'The One and the Many' for Get Creative with Up for Arts Cumbria.

    3/10/2018
  • Glowing Onions

    Glowing Onions

    How to make some beautiful biodegradable baubles.

    3/10/2018
  • Ghost In The Machine

    Ghost In The Machine

    An echoing box of machinery with a ghost!

    10/17/2017
  • Banana Dance Flash Mob

    Banana Dance Flash Mob

    Dancing in the street with giant bananas! A fruity flashmob for Another Fine Fest 2017 created with Rachael Weaver, Sara Charlesworth and a whole basket of brilliant volunteer bananas.

    7/15/2017
  • Speed Of Life Paint By Numbers

    Speed Of Life Paint By Numbers

    A giant community paint by numbers created with PBN master Geoff Tristram for the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival with Up for Arts Cumbria.

    3/18/2017
  • The Door Of Perception

    The Door Of Perception

    A digital thing showing people as a cloud of points or a line drawing for Ulverston's Candlelit Walk.

    10/31/2016
  • Some Girls Do Video Project

    Some Girls Do Video Project

    Our short film competition entry... that didn't win.

    8/27/2015
  • Wheelie Bin Tattoo

    Wheelie Bin Tattoo

    Bin painting. Painting bin.

    7/11/2011
  • Sick Toys Stop Motion

    Sick Toys Stop Motion

    Early toy puking stop motion experiment.

    4/29/2009