Ongoing 2022
ECHODRIFT STUDIO
In collaboration with creative technologist Nathanial Mason, we are setting up a new digital studio working with point clouds, volumetric scanning (photogrammetry or LIDAR) and gaming engines. Watch this space!
Ongoing 2022
DEEP TIME CHALK FUTURES
The project in development, focussed on understanding climate change through the lens of chalk, a litmus for atmospheric-oceanic change, and visualising its effects upon our cultural landscape.
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Oct 2021
NEW FOREST IMAGINARIUM
A major project in the New Forest that has come out of the research for ‘Estover for the Imagination’ (see below). First shown at spudWORKS in Sway.
Sep 2021
PHOTOGRAPHING RESISTANCE (Anatomy of a Network)
A series of 3D portraits from across the Antimicrobial Resistance Network, University of Exeter.
Sep 2021
JUST ADD WATER
A short film coming out of research into the Cobbauge project at University of Plymouth, redefining the tradional craft of cob building for the 21st century. This was created whilst Creative Associate of the Sustainable Earth Institute.
Spring 2021
BABEL MIND
This Creative Fellowship is with University of Exeter, working with the interdisciplinary Antimicrobial Resistance Network (AMR). An initial period of research has now led (Jan 2021) into a proposal for an interactive artwork called ‘Babel Mind’.
Spring 2021
SURFACE TENSIONS
Delayed by one year due to the pandemic, this work is now planned for installation at Mottisfont Abbey in spring 2021.
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HIATUS II
A second hiatus, this time for the pandemic.
^ 2020
Autumn 2019
ESTOVER FOR THE IMAGINATION
A short pilot residency in the New Forest, based at SpudWORKS in Sway, working with Reinhild Beuther. Our research was presented at a seminar in early December.
Sep–Oct 2019
ON STAGE WITH RED DOG
I have been invited to produce video projections for Red Dog Theatre’s latest production, ‘When the Rain Stop Falling’.
Jan 2019
SURFACE TENSIONS GOES LIVE!
A year-long residency on the River Test at Mottisfont with an exhibition in Spring 2020. This project is being curated by Phil Smith and supported by The National Trust, the Corsham Institute, and the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research University of Southampton.
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HIATUS
A break from public art projects.to focus on teaching
Online
CLEAN UNCLEAN
‘Forgetful Worlds’ is showing as part of the Clean Unclean season in the online journal The Learned Pig
March 2017
SURFACE TENSION ARCHITECTURE WORKSHOP
I am going to be working with the architecture students at AUB (Arts University Bournemouth) on preliminary designs for the Surface Tension project.
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October 2016
BROOMHILL NATIONAL SCULPTURE PRIZE
Judging, along with Sean Henry and Tian Zhu, this year’s Broomhill Sculpture Prize, This will give me a chance to revisit my roots in sculpture and to spend some time at the wonderful Broomfield Art Hotel and its sculpture garden.
Ongoing
DEEP TIME CHALK FUTURES
A project with Prof. Ian Jarvis (Kingston University) focussed on understanding climate change through the lens of chalk, a litmus for atmospheric-oceanic change, and visualising its effects upon our cultural landscape.
14th Apr–23 Apr 2016
10 DEGREES NORTH-EAST OF BASECAMP
Exhibition of SVA Studio Artists, part of the SITE art festival, in which I will be exhibiting a selection from Giants of Albion.
7th Mar–18th Mar 2016
SCORE FOR A FLAUTIST
Exhibition in the Hardwick Gallery, a continuation of my work on climate change and chalk (see ‘Deep Time Chalk Futures’ below), including a collaboration with international beatbox flautist Tadek Chylinski-Reid.
5th Mar–6th Apr 2016
THE OBSERVATORY: YEAR ONE
Group show of work from Observatory artists at St. Barbe Museum & Art Gallery.
Feb-Mar 2016
UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Here I will be teaching on the MA in Photography this spring. This is somewhat of a return for me, since I taught in Cheltenham (then the School of Art) when I first came to Gloucestershire.
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2015
THE ARTISTS AGENCY
Joined The Artists Agency, run by Mark Segal
10th Oct – 7th Nov 2015
GIANTS OF ALBION
Exhibition in Winchester Cathedral, as part of the 10 Days 2015 arts festival.
Tue 15th Sep 2015
WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT DRAWING
7–9pm, SVA, Stroud. An open discussion around the role of drawing in current art practice introduced by three short presentations on different approaches to drawing: Paul Fowler (who runs ‘extreme’ life drawing classes: paulfowlerstudio.co.uk), Dan Hughes McGrail (on the role of drawing when working digitally: digital-sculpture.co.uk) and Simon Ryder (simonryder.info).
10th–16th Sep 2015
PRACTICE IN CALCIUM CARBONATE
Solo show in the Line Gallery, Stroud, transposing current studio practice into public view
9th Sep 2015
MATERIALLY SPEAKING
Talk at North Devon Arts (NDA), Barnstable
In development 2015
RETURN OF THE BITTERN
Film based on the research carried out for A Space for the Bittern
4th-18th Apr 2015
MYCOCULTURE
This exhibition, organised by artist and permaculturalist Dominic Thomas around the launch of his new mushroom micro-farm Fungusloci, will include the first outing of the Library Digester, the structure that I made with Millar Howard Workshop for the Cabinet of Change project last year. The Digester will be infiltrating itself into the fabric of the exhibition to offer a space for exchange and reinterpretation.
1st–30th Apr 2015
AFTER THE ANIMAL
For this group exhibition I will be exhibiting preparatory sketches and maquette for Passager, the 3D-printed sculpture that I am currently working on.
15th Apr 2015
RICOCHET @ SITE FESTIVAL
Performance-talk on my residency in the Verne, including showing the video ‘Ricochet’. Full Site Festival brochure can be found here.
Jan-Mar 2015
THE OBSERVATORY
Residency in the Observatory, sited at Winchester Science Centre/South Downs National Park
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24 Feb 2015
I LOVE PHILAE AND PHILAE LOVES ME
Performance/talk in the Planetarium at the Winchester Science Centre
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20 NOV 2014
IN CONVERSATION
Talk/presentation at the Smooth Space, Torbay
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MAR-NOV 2014
QUARTET
Part of Unravelling Uppark exhibition in Uppark House.
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3-8 OCT 2014
BACKSTORIES
Solo show in the Gallery @ SVA, Stroud
Fri 3 Oct, ‘Telling the Backstories’ performance-talk
19 SEP 2014
NAVIGABLE WATERS
Canal & River Trust, Gloucester Docks
5-14 SEP 2014
PASSAGE
Installation at IRC (Immigration Removal Centre) The Verne, as part of the b-side Festival, Isle of Portland.
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24–25 MAY 2014
A SPACE FOR THE BITTERN
Installation in the Old Chancel Waterhay, Wiltshire
Culmination of a year-long residency in the Cotswold Water Park
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