The phoenix has landed, the cat is on the lead, the dog is at the dinner table and the chicken is a cover star. Sounds like a slightly odd lesson from one of those secondary school French listening tapes (ecoutez et repetez!) but it is, in fact, my latest magazine shoot.
We went quite off piste with the whole idea behind this fashion shoot for Phoenix magazine; what began as a sort of satirical commentary on country living, via clothing trends, became a quite bonkers story about my home life and various animals. I mean I even cuddled a chicken, for crying out loud. I hate chickens and their bony, weird claws and their wings that feel all fragile and flappy and panicked.
I hope you appreciate the things I do for my art, in inverted commas.
You can see the full editorial with photoshoot at Phoenix here – there’s such a kind and detailed interview inside. The only thing is: the lovely people at Phoenix have been very organised and punctual with their content but I have not. So there’s a bit of a surprise for any of you who read the magazine before you read what I’m about to say…

…because the cat is out of the bag and the project I’ve been working on for almost two years has been revealed. The Night Feed. The Night Feed is an app designed for new mums (or not-so-new mums) who are up in the middle of the night feeding and comforting babies or just trying to get them to GO BACK TO BLOODY SLEEP! There’s nothing lonelier than b...