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Baillie - Paris, Colchester and Where You Are Sitting Now

A fixture around the UK comics scene for years, the creative David Baillie has been strongly touted as set to make the jump to television. For those of you unfamiliar, here's the intro from David's friendly website,

"His work has appeared in 2000AD, Judge Dredd Megazine, Tripwire, Redeye, Comics International, Zombies, Robots and a dozen other fabulous places. His screenwriting has recently been nominated for a BAFTA/Rocliffe Award and shortlisted for the hotly-contested Red Planet Prize and Scotland Writes Drama Competition. Exhibitions of his art have been mounted in London, Edinburgh, Paris and Oxford."

Paris

Baillie has recently completed The Casita Situations, with webcomic pioneer Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Italian architect Valerio Ferrari. "A micro-world" within the walls of the children's mental health clinic at Avicenne Hospital in Paris, Ferrari conceived "a series of interchangeable wall panels...text, written in the diverse range of languages spoken by the young people there."

Baillie and Goodbrey have thought through the language of visual psychology. The work is uplifting, and by design, engaging. The opportunity for patients to decide on placement allows for them to be a part of creating the environment they are in the care of, and so empowers. Also...dinosaurs, winged men, dog and cat-heads in suits...it's super-kewl!

Goodbrey has reproduced the Situations online as a randomly generated hypercomic.

Colchester

In April, David will be the artist-in-residence at Firstsite in Colchester. The venue appears to have a strong tradition of facilitating local community interest and access through the recent "Colchester Inn" project.