Artist Books
and Museology
Blue Moon (3.08) DVD
A moving image works in which a kitchen work surface becomes a sublime starry sky.
Winter Field Imaginings (2.53) DVD
Moving image with sound exploring landscape and nature as aspects of transformation. A slippage from reality to fantasy occurs when the imagination takes over and a story (a longing for spring) is imposed on the bleak landscape of a winter field.
Exhibited at Alchemy - Film and Media Arts Festival Hawick, 2010 Curator: Richard Ashrowan.
Coastline (1.59) DVD
Moving image with sound. During the piece the fixed elements, (rocks and structures) are moved poetically in an extraordinary way.
Airstream (2.00) DVD
Moving image with sound. Nature is mediated by technology and the creative process is informed by the action of the wind which moves the leaves and produces sounds.
Exhibited at: artcast in association with moves08, folly, UK.
Closer (2.04) DVD
Moving image with sound. Footage of a garden over time.
Circadian Rhythms - Escalator (2.05) DVD
The structure now of the rearranged video on screen was softer, more liquid and merging with the natural world; beginning to look organic as a waterfall of stairs emerged. The handrails reconstructed as sinuous leaves ... renewal.
Exhibited at: seconds issue 9 2008, Digital Fringe: Melbourne Fringe Festival 2008. Video stills shown at: Urban (R)evolutions and Festival Miden, Greece 2009 and Urban at www.stramashspace.org 2010 with sound work Tram.
Circadian Rhythms - Coast (1.00) DVD
Moving image with sound. The viewer is separated from the natural world outside by a window. The original sounds were removed from the video and delays were added to emphasize the repetitions and subtle sounds that the coastal wind causes. The sounds were then fitted to the moving images.
Exhibted at: One Minute Film and Video Festival Aarau Switzerland 2008, Digital Fringe:Melbourne Fringe Festival, Australia 2008, Screen Deva Festival, Chester, UK 2009
Soundwork watching the water (3.01) rock dancing (1.59) slowly submerging (2.20) Creative process is informed by the action of the sea which seems to dance as it transports and deposits material, shaping the coastline. The sounds were recorded at a remote coastal location and transported back to the studio to be digitally shaped into dance type rhythms, echoing the seas action.
Presented at: Custard Factory Birmingham 2001, Biennale of Electronic Art, Perth Australia 2004, Velocity Festival of Digital Culture, Folly, UK 2007
- Proposal for Something to Read 2010
Instructions on how to read a Dictionary. Contributed to the The Wild Pansy Book of Rainy Day Activities 2010
- the accompanying text 2009
A catalogue for a fake exhibition of artist's books, relating to the history of artists' books and the issues involved in their display. Exhibited in
Issue 13 Soanyway 2012
Artist Books Exhibition Leamington Spa 2010
Micro-Pages, touring exhibition 2009-2010
DIY curatorial strategy - Gallery in Hand 2001, a portable exhibition space in the palm of the hand and contemplation on the museum exploring the artist/curator role.
Exhibited at: Videoteque, Ten Gallery, Cornwall, UK, 2002 and Discourse Power Resistance 5 Conference, MMU, Manchester, UK 2006
Temporary painting and inspiration
Dried paint splashes peeled from the floor, then stored in a (white cube) plastic box to be presented as temporary paintings. Inspiration - natural mark making found in nature and by the haphazard nature of paint.
Exhibited at: ModArchitecture at the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture 2002 and Uncharted Territory at Salford University UK 2006.