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An Update From Naomi Smyth & China Fish, the 2025 Forkbeard Fantasy Award Winners
Naomi Smyth and China Fish are the winners of the 2025 inaugural Forkbeard Fantasy Award. This is an annual award of £15,000 given to a collaboration of artists to research and develop a new piece based on the archives of Forkbeard Fantasy. China and Naomi are now approximately ...
By Rosie Smith, Project Archivist: Forkbeard Fantasy
As you may remember from a previous blog, Forkbeard Fantasy were known for their use of elaborate and unusual props and costumes. After a successful touring exhibition of some of these items, they established the Museum of Forkbeard in North...
Sticky tapes
One of the many challenges we face when digitising audiovisual material from magnetic tape is “sticky-shed syndrome”. Certain types or formulations of tape suffer from this problem that, as the name implies, causes them to literally stick to the components of the playback machine creating a phenomenon known as “stiction”. The friction of t...
A ticket from a Brittonioni Brothers’ performance in Warsaw.
I’m now a year into my three-year long project to catalogue the archives of Forkbeard Fantasy. I have successfully cleaned, repackaged and catalogued the objects, which means it’s time to do the same for the physical documents. Rather than starting with the production material (a gargantuan task that will take many ...
Polly Tisdall, the 2024-2025 recipient of the Kevin Elyot Award, is publishing an audio diary,
