A baby in the fifties, a kid in the sixties, a teen in the seventies, my outlook was moulded by that great post war youth movement especially the psychedelic and surreal part of it. Growing up in Nottingham, I was part of the ‘Weekend Lunatics’ in the late seventies and the ‘Sic Boys’ in the early eighties, taking part in many artistic and musical adventures. By the end of that decade I pursued further education at Trent University and again in the mid nineties. I founded the ‘International Photobooth Convention’, started my own record label and continue to create a wide ranging array of arts from masks, photography, music, films, writing and history projects. I have led events alone or as part of a team, from independent idea’s, to workshop settings at the V&A Museum. I work in both analogue and digital mediums, small and large, some of which doesn’t reach a ‘finished piece‘ but is part of the process of creativity. I’m not sure what art is but it seems to be a primal instinct, the burning desire to tell a story. Sometimes, I jokingly say that I am one of the last of Nottingham’s ‘Psychedelic Surrealists’ but it does have some truth to it.
This website was launched in August 2026 and starts from my latest ‘modern era’ which was about November 2023. Gradually, I hope to backdate a lot of my previous work, events and adventures as time permits.
All the images, text and other media on this website are copyrighted to Stephen Howard aka Mixup aka Steve Mixup aka Mister Mixup and any other pseudonym I use unless otherwise stated. ©2026 Stephen Howard aka Mixup aka Steve Mixup.