Paul Farmer

I am a writer, and an artist working in digital image, sound and text installation.

I work across and between artforms. I have been a professional artist since 1990 and my work also includes theatre, published prose and poetry and performance text, as well as more conventional moving image and sound work. (See also my work for pandamedia cornwall).
Community arts and socially engaged projects are long-standing parts of my practice.

You can find links to examples of my work through the menus above, including many things to watch and read. Have a good look round.

LATEST NEWS
STOP PRESS! My new book After the Miners' Strike: A39 and Cornish Political Theatre against Thatcher's Britain is now published by Open Book Publishers and is available in several formats - find it here....

I am one of the writers featured in the book 26 Voices for Change. Find it here....

'diary in the plague year', a book by Paul Farmer! Find it through this link....
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'Stairs': companion film to 'New Reed', with Mark Jenkin

“Paul Farmer’s ‘I Shake When He’s Gone from My Door’ is a marvellous piece of writing, lucid yet mysterious…. Fear, anger, despair are delicately pinched up at their corners and bound into the quiet, purposeful sentences…. Another reason for reading anthologies is to welcome exciting new talent when you see it. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does, it’s a joy." – Jenny Turner, Financial Times, reviewing England Calling, pub. Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2001.