George Storm Fletcher (b.1997) is a performance artist and Menace, originally from Ely, in East Anglia. They have been living, and loving working in Leeds since 2018. At their best when being outrageous, playful, and heartfelt - their work manifests as a series of text-based architectural interventions with a DIY aesthetic. They predominantly use Vinyl Matt Emulsion and found objects, offering new voices and narratives for objects like used decorator’s dust sheets, fuse boxes and found images. They are currently the Amanda Burton Scholar at the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies - undertaking a practice-based PhD called 'Magnolia: Trade, Improvement and the Monochrome.' Their project re-situating the infamous shade of off-white, Magnolia, in social Art History.
George Storm plans on using The Writers' Room residency to compile a book, working title: Safe Word. The vast source material was created during the two and a half-years that they were working in Leeds City Centre's only licensed adult store. Anecdotal notes from 'under the counter' document the first-hand experience of working as a retail assistant in a space that blurs the boundary of public and private every day. Much of the material hasn't been looked at since it was created, and so the time and space that the Writer's room residency provides will allow for a revisiting of these documents and their expansion and formal archiving into a book form.
Below, photos by George Storm Fletcher(click on image to enlarge)
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