BOBBY BAKER is a performance artist based in London. She was born in Sidcup,
Kent in 1950 and studied Painting at St. Martin's School of Art 1968-1972. During
the last three decades she has produced an extensive repertoire of work, including
An Edible Family in a Mobile Home (1976) and Drawing on a Mother's Experience,
a show which has been performed over 200 times around the world.

In 1991 Bobby began her Daily Life series, a domestic quintet commissioned by
LIFT. During the first part, Kitchen Show, Bobby opened her own kitchen to the
public and has since toured to 'guest kitchens' in Britain, Europe, Australia, Canada
and South America. How to Shop in 1993 took the form of a lecture on supermarket
shopping and Take a Peek! in 1995 was Bobby's inimitable interpretation of the
healthcare system. Grown-Up School, was the fourth in the series. Performances took
the audience back to the classroom for a special lesson in an inner London primary
school. In Box Story, the fifth and final piece, Bobby, remembering Pandora, delves
into a selection of boxes unleashing the ills of the world and attempting to conquer
them with hope and unsettling humour.

Bobby has worked on a number of projects recently. In Pull Yourself Together she
strapped herself to the back of a van and toured the streets of London exhorting
the world to pull itself together. This was Bobby's contribution to Mental Health Action
Week. The Woman who Mistook her Mouth for a Pocket was a special sermon which
she gave at the Sunday service at a church in London as part of The Art in Sacred
Spaces Festival. In HouseWorkHouse Bobby and her collaborators developed a
virtual house which can be accessed on this website.

Bobby Baker is currently Time Out's Artist in Residence as part of the national
Year of the Artist scheme.

POLONA BALOH BROWN. As a co-director with Bobby Baker she is a key member of
Daily Life Ltd. Their artistic collaboration began in 1990 and has since developed into
a unique creative relationship. Director, arts manager, writer and educator, Polona's
interest is in performance art, women's work and cross-cultural collaborations. Her
partnership with Bobby Baker continues alongside her other work.

Polona is a Slovene living and working in London. She studied literature and
performing arts at York University, Goldsmiths College and Royal College of Art and
for many years taught drama in schools and colleges. She continues to lecture at
university level, and directs and manages diverse performance and cross-arts projects
in the UK. She has promoted work from her native country, Slovenia, at festivals and
venues throughout Europe and initiated City of Women - an acclaimed international
festival of women's arts in Slovenia. In 1997 she set up Greda Arts, a diverse
international group of established artists, writers and academics, which initiates and
produces new collaborations in performing and live arts. Greda's first major projects
were The Three Legged Table (1998) and Divided (Ljubljana and London 2000).

For information on current and forthcoming projects please contact:
pbrown@greda.freeserve.co.uk

ARTSADMIN is an unusual hybrid of producer, administrator, facilitator and promoter.
We began working with experimental and visual theatre companies. We now also work
with performance, live, installation artists, and multi-disciplinary companies, not to
mention those innovative artists beyond categorisation. The terms to describe this
work come and go. One thing that the artists have in common is that we have been
inspired by the work they produce and we continue to be proud to promote it. The
artists take the risks, push the boundaries and constantly challenge our preconceptions.
Artsadmin's role is to make it possible. - Judith Knight, Director.

ANDREW WHITTUCK is a professional photographer and has worked with Bobby for
over 25 years since her early performances and her first major installation An Edible
Family in a Mobile Home. He has documented all her work up to the present including
her most recent work Box Story. Andrew works with artists and galleries as well as
being a still life and food photographer.

MARK STOROR is too shy or too busy to send in his biog.

SIAN STEVENSON has collaborated with Bobby on several projects including workshops
for HouseWorkHouse and a film project at Ashworth Psychiatric Hospital, and as a
performer in Take a Peek.

Sian was born in Barry,Wales and studied at LSE and Jesus College, Oxford. She
works in theatre and opera as a director, movement director, performer and
workshop leader. Recent theatre and opera work includes: Seven Sacraments -
Choreographic Associate Gloria Theatre Company; Her Sister's Tongue -
Choreographic Associate, Plain Clothes Theatre Company; Everyman - Movement
Director, International Festival of Dijon; The Magic Flute and Macbeth - Revival
Director, English Touring Opera; La Galisto - Movement Director, Guildhall School of
Music and Drama From 1996 - 98 Sian was Artistic Director of the Hairy Marys, whose
productions include Venus and Adonis in collaboration with Actor's Touring Company,
Sandcastles in the Air and Bitches on Feet. Sian is also visiting lecturer at Central
School of Speech and Drama and The Royal College of Music

DEBORAH MAY collaborated with Bobby Baker on her first cyberperformance work,
HouseWorkHouse, is creating a film archive of Bobby's performances, producing
video inserts for the touring version of Box Story and designed the website.

Deborah grew up in Zimbabwe and studied fine art and photography in South Africa
and London. After college she worked as a photographer and in the theatre before
moving into film - both live action and animation. For the past 10 years her work has
been predominantly in music and arts for television and arts organisations such as
the South Bank Centre, the London Sinfonietta and Dance Umbrella. In 1997 she
directed two films for Leaving Home, Sir Simon Rattle's series on 20thC music, which
won a BAFTA. Recent projects include film for a multimedia theatre production of
JG Ballard's Myths of The Near Future , video projections for Handspring Puppets'
The Chimp Project, foyer installations for the Royal Festival Hall and documentary
features for the BBC on Peter Maxwell Davis, Wayne MacGregor and Anthony Dowell.

CLARE ALLAN created the text for HouseWorkHouse. She is a London-based writer
and journalist whose work has been published across a wide variety of media. She
was awarded an MA in Creative Writing by the University of East Anglia, and is
currently working on a novel about madness.

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