HE SAID Talent Agency is a fictional but functional talent agency where all acts, projects, and work are made under pseudonyms of just one artist: Jamie Moakes.

Established in 2005, HE SAID Talent Agency was conceived to openly challenge what is generally accepted as stereotypes of live or performance art, particularly by audiences on the periphery. This approach allows 'us' to make work using any medium: film, publications, visual pieces, talks, performances, etc. Works are always rooted in live art with live elements.

HE SAID Talent Agency has shown work in a variety of contexts: The National Theatre, Camp Bestival, firstsite, Fierce Festival, Whitstable Beinnale, and One Minute Film Festival to name a few. The agency also been supported by Escalator Performing Arts (2010), an Arts Council England, East initiative.

Since forming, the Talent Agency has realised that HE SAID should be distinguished as the overall and defining brand which tackles art as business and to which HE SAID Talent Agency is in fact a subsidiary company. HE SAID is best described as the Virgin of the art world because it's a flexible model for artistic practice. As a company its ambition is to conquer all it seeks to, just as Virgin has; in essence its ethos is “if we want to make a brand of cola – we will.”

Please browse this site where you will find profiles of each artist and the projects we have developed as HE SAID Talent Agency.