| "NEW YORK PERFORMANCE POETRAITS" (2010) |
| Graham's latest project is the successor of "Performance Poetraits" (see below). The featured performance poets represent New York and the project culminated in a live event on the 29th January 2010 at the Nuyorican Poetry Cafe in Manhattan. The development this time was that the poets would perform their poems live on stage and their portraits would develop on the screen behind them in direct response to them reading into the microphone. Graham had the assistance of Simon Andrews in creating a program that linked audio input to the triggering of the successive frames. The night was a great success and Graham is working on a West Coast version involving poets from Los Angeles. |
| "PERFORMANCE POETRAITS" (2009) |
| The development towards performance poetry from the static portrait/poem format came about through Graham painting Richard Grant (aka Dreadlockalien) as part of the Birmingham Laureate Poetraits (see below). As a performance artist rather than publishing poet it made sense to have an audio version of the ensuing poem, and this in turn inspired the creation of the "animation" of the portrait as it develops from blank canvas through to finished portrait. The six poets represent contemporary performance poetry in the Midlands, and the exhibition went on display as part of the Birmingham Book Festival in October 2009. |
| "BIRMINGHAM LAUREATE POETRAITS" (2007) |
| This group includes 5 of the "Spaghetti Poets" (see below) who were also Birmingham Poets Laureate. With the other five these are the 10 Laureates between 1996 and 2006, and their "Poetriats" were commissioned by Birmingham City Council to commemorate the ten year anniversary of the post. The exhibition was successfully toured around the Birmingham area, including a number of the area's hospitals. The poets are: Roshan Doug, Simon Pitt, Julie Boden, Sibyl Ruth, Brian Lewis, David Hart, Roi Kwabena, Roz Goddard and Richard Grant (aka Dreadlockalien) |
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| "SPAGHETTI POETRAITS" (2005) |
| This project was part-funded with the assistance of Julie Boden by Poetry Central, and saw the "Poetraits" concept developed into a workshop for schools. The workshops consisted of having the students draw each other and then compose a poem in response to their portraits. These were then compiled and displayed as part of Warwick Words Festival. |  | ||
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| | Poets: Matt Nunn, Roz Goddard, Julie Boden, Sibyl Ruth, Brian Lewis, David Hart |
| "WELCOME TO BIRMINGHAM" (2004) |
| This was Graham's first project on moving to Birmingham. The subjects were all students at St George's Sixth Form Centre and represent countries from as distant as Jamaica, Iran, Somalia and India. To emphasize the welcoming theme Graham sculpted the students hands and displayed these under their portraits as part of Black History Month. |  | |||
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 | The students: Ayan, Baftjar, Michelle, Sania and Harpreet, Sajat, Subbir and Reza |  |
| "POETRAITS" (2003) |
| The original "Poetraits" project, created initially by Graham as part of the Ledbury Poetry Festival and subsequently toured around 13 venues around the country from Torquay to Edinburgh. The featured poets are: Clare Pollard, David Hart, Owen Sheers, Ruth Padel, Jo Shapcott, Roger McGough, Matt Harvey, UA Fanthorpe, Frieda Hughes, Gillian Allnutt and Dannie Abse. A catalogue which accompanied the exhibition is available, featuring images of all of the portraits and poems as well as anecdotes by Graham describing his experiences of travelling to each poet for the sittings. |
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 |  | On display at the Poetry Society Cafe Covent Garden London |  | ||