Kartoon Kings

A series of fifteen comic strips published weekly in the Peterborough Telegraph newspaper (UK) between February and June, featuring some of the Peterborough Street Pastors, a group of Christian volunteers who help and listen to people every Saturday night in the city. Commissioned by RSA and Wysing Arts.

An edition of 10,000 audio compact disks and a series of live music performances. Four groups of musicians based in Colchester, UK, chose one of their own pieces and passed it to the other three groups to cover in their own musical style. Featuring The Band of the Parachute Regiment, medieval shawm band The Colchester…

A series of sixteen stories of personal experiences related by people in Blackpool. The stories appeared once a week between September 2011 and January 2012, as comic strips in the local newspaper the Blackpool Gazette and as large-scale illuminated images forming part of the promenade Illuminations for which the town is famous. The stories were…

A New Grennan and Sperandio project for The Poor Farm in Manawa, WI, as organized by artists Brad Killam and Michelle Grabner. Clouds drifting over this new, American take on the German kunsthalle were documented and transcribed as a 10′ tall 12′ wide wall painting. Part of the 2011 season of new art works. See…

Over 12 months, Grennan & Sperandio are researching and reflecting upon objects in the collections of Towneley Hall, Burnley UK. At the same time, they will be out and about in town, getting a feel for the contemporary life of the town. Over the year, seven new artworks will literally bring together objects from the…

A series of portraits of people involved in creative enterprises, based in the Hackney Wick and Fish Island areas of London. Grennan & Sperandio asked sitters to identify a personal view that communicated a unique sense of place to them. The portraits were published over eleven weeks in the Hackney Gazette, a London local newspaper.

Conflict Theory is a large-scale, interactive installation produced by Grennan & Sperandio in the School of Art & Design Slusser Gallery Workspace on the University of Michigan North Campus. Drawing on sociology, psychology, architecture as well as art and design, Grennan and Sperandio developed an installation that is both a spectacle and a functioning game-space…

A comic book, edition 1000, telling the story of the English Civil War siege of Newcastle. Tyne and Wear Museum Service, Newcastle UK.

A book, edition 7,000, compiling reconstructions, donations and new images of colours that people in the Cumbrian town of Ulverston have found meaningful or affecting. Six hundred people suggested around seventeen hundred colours. Given as a gift to every household in town. Lanternhouse, Ulverston, UK.

A year-long residency creating seven new works at the Museum, bringing together objects from the collection with materials and services from the city. Grosvenor Museum, Chester, UK.

A six metre high inflatable characterisation of the spirit of the Portobello area of Edinburgh. Big Things on the Beach, Edinburgh, UK.

A series of ten commercial billboard portraits of people who work on the Berlin U-Bahn at night. U-10 Projekt/NGBK, Berlin, Germany.

A book, edition 6,000, compiling a piece of local wisdom for every day of the year, given as a gift to every household in Caia Park. Caia Park Communities First, Wrexham, UK.

A book, edition 6,000, selecting from a new archive of memories of Bloomfield, Blackpool, given as a gift to every household in Bloomfield. Blackpool Borough Council, Blackpool, UK.

A book, edition 8,000, compiling a piece of local wisdom for every day of the year, given as a gift to every household in Barrhead and Neilston. Barrhead Housing Association, Glasgow, UK.

Three five metre high inflatable characterisations of the spirit of the City of Salford. The Lowry, Salford, UK.

A series of eleven new oil paintings and a book, edition 2,000, inspired by the travel journals of Margaret and Gwendolin Davies. Oriel Davies, Newtwon, UK.

A book, edition 900, compiling South Oxhey people’s thoughts about libraries. Watford Borough Council and Gunpowder Park, London, UK.

An unrealised comic book made in collaboration with Maurice Saatchi.

A comic book, edition 10,000, bringing together the Museum’s collection and experiences of contemporary manufacturing. Northampton Museum, Northampton, UK.