After completing his national service in the Navy he became established on the avant garde scene with his performance art and mechanical constructs.

He made the props and had an acting part in Richard Lester's The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film.

Along with The Alberts, he starred in two short comedy films (Uncles Tea Party and Defective Detectives), directed by pinup photographer George Harrison Marks.

He also exhibited his The British Landing on the Moon in Simon Chapman's 1969 Cybervironment Plus, an experimental arts festival at Aston University, Birmingham.

He toured England in the 1970s with his children's sci-fi theatre show and became involved in "Earth Magic" with his then wife, actress Jill Bruce, mounting a number of performance pieces and exhibitions.