flatpack this thursday!

If you are near Birmingham this thursday then please come along to see me and Jazz supremo Kit Downes (Kit Downes, piano, Calum Gourlay, bass, James Maddren, drums, James Allsopp, bass clarinet, Lucy Railton, cello) in our live animated jazz adventure - Animation and Improvisation!

Part of the Flatpack festival. The event takes place at the Birmingham and Midland Institute at 19:30. With a special thank-you to Birmingham Jazz!

Pop Up Cinema this Saturday!!

Hello! I am hosting a pop-up cinema at the Lighthouse THIS saturday as part of the Made in the Shade Holiday Hullabaloo! I and lots of other lovely folk will be selling some lovely things for under your christmas tree, but if all that christmas shopping is just too much why not pop along and enjoy some animated treats! above is a little selection of what will be playing!

Digital Arts

Myself and Bruce Cameron created this galloping pink king for a Digital Arts Magazine tutorial! You can animate your very own king....just pick up a copy of the mag!

Apple on Channel 4

last night was the premiere of 'Apple', an animation I directed for channel 4.

I was commssioned last week by Channel 4 to create an animation for the winning poem in the random spoken word competition.

The winning poem was written (and performed) by Dylan Owen and you can hear and watch the results here

The amazing Bruce Cameron helped me make this alongside some ace folk at Picasso Pictures - Melissa and Shelley.

Digital Arts Magazine

A small feature in Digital Arts Magazine about the Belle and Sebastian animated music video for 'I Didn't See it Coming'. You can read more from the interview on the Digital Arts blog here

I Didn't See it Coming from Lesley Barnes on Vimeo.

I Didn't See it Coming!

Time to get your desk diary/planner/post it notes/knotted hankies out! On the 15th of June at 7pm at Offshore (Gibson Street, Glasgow) we are having a premiere of the animated music video I directed for Belle and Sebastian! You are all welcome and I promise there will be puppets, bear masks and even a bear cake (hopefully)

please come along!

It's all part of Libby Walker's Art Fusion event! find out more here

Cheltenham Jazz Festival

Like Jazz? Like genetics? Like animated squares (or Tetris with dinosaurs) ? Perfect! Then please come along to Animation Migration at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival this coming saturday.

Me and fantastic jazz musican Kit Downes were asked by the Wellcome Trust to create an animated musical adventure exploring the concept of DNA migration. We were aided in our experiment by super scientist Adam Rutherford (who you can see on his Gene Code series on the bbc).....if you want to see what we came up with (and also to ask Adam complicated questions about evolution) please come!

The rather amazing Bruce Cameron helped bring evolution to life in less than a month...three cheers for Bruce!