Graham Short

Have no doubt, your speaker is the most important element of your event, whether it's an annual conference, luncheon club, festival, corporate event or private dinner.

If you want someone who can captivate and entertain your audience, then "My Life as a Micro-Artist" is the talk for you! Graham Short is currently the most in-demand speaker in the UK.

The most amazing and unusual presentation by the world's number-one micro-engraver is thought-provoking, awe-inspiring and highly entertaining.  His PowerPoint presentation is littered with amusing tales about the celebrities he has met and worked with, such as Ronnie Barker, Neil Armstrong, Uri Geller, Stephen Fry, Simon Armitage (the Poet Laureate), Simon Rattle, Kim Kardashian, and the Royals. 

He left school at the age of 15 without any qualifications, and started his first job - emptying mouse traps in a Birmingham factory. Seven years later, he had secured the most amazing and enviable client list imaginable, which included,  Buckingham Palace, Balmoral, Sandringham, Windsor Castle, The House of Commons, 10 Downing Street, Harrods, Fortnum &  Mason, and parfumiers, Chanel, Yves St Laurent, Dior, and Guerlain.

Graham is now considered by multi-millionaire fine-art investors around the globe to be the most talented artist alive today. Of this, he says, "Of course I don't believe it, I'm just a thick Brummie, but I'm sure you will understand when I say, it's good for my ego to hear this!"

After carving The Lord's Prayer on a speck of gold inside the eye of a needle, and engraving the words, 'Nothing is Impossible' along the sharp edge of a Wilkinson Sword razor blade, he has appeared in many news, radio and television features internationally, and been the subject of a Discovery Channel documentary. Two years ago, a film of his art was shown at the annual Art and Film Festival in Hollywood.

An interesting venture, which brought him massive media coverage in 58 countries around the world, was when he engraved a portrait of Jane Austen on four £5 notes, then travelled around Britain, spending them in small shops. These four notes were valued at £50,000 each.

He goes to greater lengths than anyone else in the world in an effort to produce art on such a minute scale. Working from midnight to 5.00 am, to avoid vibration from passing traffic, He lowers his pulse to 20 beats a minute with the aid of potassium, magnesium and beta-blockers, and while wearing a stethoscope to monitor his heart, he engraves between heartbeats when he is perfectly still. Regular injections of Botox into his eyelids ensure there is no distraction from eye-nerves and muscles. 

Your members will be thrilled with this presentation, and will be talking about it long after it ends. 

One last point, if you don't like laughing... "My Life as a Micro-Artist is not for you!"