What do you do?
I’m an educator, designer, artist and occasional music hall performer. Currently I’m working for the Open College of the Arts, a distance learning art college based in the UK, working with an incredibly diverse range of students, from pensioners to prisoners to residents of remote Scottish islands and beyond. On the side I’m part of a collaborative arts practice called Bristow Lloyd, working with Lisa Bristow. Now and again I perform my underpant escapologist routine under the guise of The Incredible Niblo. I recently got banned after a performance at a children’s festival when horribly wrong – no safety net and the gimp mask didn’t help either. For fun I run around the hills of Yorkshire, drink booze, make strange music and marvel at the wonders of nature.

What are you working on at the moment?
Bristow Lloyd have just installed a commissioned piece of public art for Locws International on Swansea High Street. ‘Coming Soon’, announces that something will be happening in the near future but leaves the viewer unsure of what that change is, who will bring it and when it will come?

At the moment we’re working on a project called Home Rules – it’s going to be an exhibition of household rules, visitor instructions and regulations – we’re looking for contributions if you want to get involved. Rules about what TV programmes can be watched when, what’s unacceptable footwear for the bedroom, stuff like that. You can keep your signs at the end of the exhibition, which is planned for April 2012 at Leeds College of Art.

What do you like and dislike about what you do?
I love working with people and helping them achieve their aims. The problem with teaching is that you know what you’re going to be doing year in year out. I hanker for a bit of spontaneity, but a bit of hill running or underpant escapology usually sorts me out.

Where did you grow up and how did this affect your life choices and aspirations?
When I was a teenager in Swansea I played in bands, ran a fanzine and helped set up an arts collective. If you grow up in a big prosperous city then everything is there on a plate for you, if you don’t you have to get organised and do it yourself.

What’s the best advice anyone’s ever given you?
‘less avant garde and more ‘ava go’– Paul Durden, The Alternative Mayor of Swansea and co-author of Twin Town, the film. When I was about nine years old, he also told me to wear a seat belt after I banged my head on his windscreen when he braked suddenly. Both pieces of sound advice.

What’s your number one recommendation?
I’m not going to tell you my favourite haunt – you’ll all show up and ruin it for the rest of us! … but if pushed … Fortes Ice Cream Parlour, Limeslade, Swansea. And I usually tip people off about my favourite bits and bobs on my blog The Digital Flâneur.