Richard Guest is an artist

Artist

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

 and short story

Short story

A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...

 author. Educated at the Slade School of Art 1986-1990, he began his writing career with two opera

Opera

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s, The Swiss Admiral's Trousers (1986) and The Maginot Line

Maginot Line

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(1987) which were staged at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Riverside Studios

Riverside Studios

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, Hammersmith

Hammersmith

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 respectively.
Published works include Americancola² *http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/pulp-faction-speaks-out-1259351.html, A Lemming Named Desire, Stephen Milliner's Beautiful Rockery, and Minestrone. He was also co-owner, and publisher with Roy Marchant of RMG Books (1990-1998), a small press which published artists' books

Artists' Books

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 and poetry

Poetry

Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...

 including Nature Poetry, and Adventures in the West by Christopher Twigg and Play by Andrew Bick *http://www.halesgallery.com/artists/_ANDREW%20BICK/.

External links

• Richard Guest, www.pulp.net.
• As a participant in the Somewhere (artist collective) performance piece, Broadcast http://www.somewhere.org.uk/broadcast/pilgrims/richard/index.htm