Harry Willis Fleming

Harry is a writer and artist, animateur and project-maker with twenty years experience of producing and devising interdisciplinary creative projects. He has a particular interest in landscape and sense of place, time, memory and the arts of memory, and archives.

harry@harrywillisfleming.co.uk

Harry presented and wrote Vapourtrain for BBC Radio 3 (broadcast 23 May 2009), exploring how steam train travel transformed time and space. He continues to write a novel - also set on the Victorian railways. He has written articles and given talks on historical topics.

He founded The Willis Fleming Historical Trust, a not-for-profit organisation that is custodian of the Willis Fleming family's heritage. The Trust's projects have strands of research, conservation, education, and art, and draw on this idiosyncratic heritage to explore wider cultural themes. Current and recent projects include: Restoration of Stoneham War Shrine with Eastleigh Borough Council, which has been awarded Heritage Lottery funding; Stoneham Field Tent Museum with Jane Wildgoose, and Browne Willis's Library.

Harry designed Spirit of place (2007), a virtual memorial commissioned by Arts in Healthcare (East Sussex NHS Hospitals Trust) to commemorate the former All Saints Hospital in Eastbourne.

He was researcher/contributor for One Way to the Necropolis (2005), a feature programme on the Brookwood Necropolis Railway for BBC Radio 4. He designed the virtual face of The Wildgoose Memorial Library (2004-6). He was production assistant on the award-winning The Loneliest Road (2003) by Gregory Whitehead for BBC Radio 3 (Best Drama, Sony Radio Academy Awards, 2004). He co-designed/produced several incarnations of Gregory Whitehead's The Bone Trade, including an installation at Mass MOCA, Massachusetts, a live event in London, and bonetrade.com (2003). He was digital designer for Viewing the Instruments (2003), a touring musical theatre production.

Harry trained in Theatre Design at Wimbledon School of Art, where he gained his degree. After leaving college in 1994, he designed sets for theatre shows. He wrote and directed a short film, I'll Remember April (1994). He was the digital designer of Lord David Owen's Balkan Odyssey CD-ROM (1996), a political memoir backed up by multimedia references and video footage. He co-conceived and produced Strands (1997), a performance and broadcast event at a disused London Underground station with Gregory Whitehead, Michelle Griffiths, and others, for Austrian Radio (ORF) and the European Broadcasting Union.

From 1997 he was managing director of HWF Creative, a design consultancy specialising in the presentation of educational information in print and multimedia formats. He secured a coveted contract from London Underground to design an integrated print and multimedia product; and went on to win accounts and projects for major UK companies and public bodies, including Railtrack (later Rail Safety & Standards Board), Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, The Wellcome Trust, University of Westminster, Virgin Group, WS Atkins, and Volkswagen.

If you have any questions about Harry's work or would like to get in touch regarding future projects, please email him at the address above.