Body stones

For our Mezz event in May we have the artist Ilana Halperin coming to talk. “One evening, someone approached me and said; I came across something I think you might be interested […]

Looking into the future

Working in Derriford hospital today, and I felt really humbled by the patients and what they are having to face. I have checked with others in the hospital, and it […]

UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

Now this is going to be interesting! I have just won a commission to create new work for the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve North Devon, which is one of only two […]

Take your breath away

Spending time in the imaging department, in particular looking at how CT scans work. One of the nurses said to me: “there are no secrets in the body any more, […]

Unexpectedly moving

Living next to Gloucester cathedral I came across an exhibition there by Greg Tricker: sculpture, painting, stained glass. Having helped him carry this huge piece of wood into the nave, […]

Distorted Quartz

Clay10, a commission for Newton Abbot Community Hospital, has just been completed. The large disk image high up in the atrium is alligned to a window on the opposite wall […]

In the minds’ eye

Watching as a radiology consultant reports his findings from CT scans of patients’ heads, scrolling through the cross sectional images of the brain at such speed that for me it […]

Out-In

“I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” John Muir. Sometimes I marvel how […]

Clay10

That is meant to be Clay to the power of 10, but I can’t find the superscript key. Anyway, it is the title for the Newton Abbot project. A nod […]

Neuro-Art

Last week I was at the Neuro-Art conference hosted by Plymouth University. A fascinating crossover of science, biology, art and technology: using live brain cells to make music, control a […]

Seeing is believing

This morning I spent observing in the x-ray department, looking at intestines after the patients has swallow barium to highlight the lining of the gut. That barium tastes disgusting, like […]

Warp and weave

Now completing the molecular models for the Clay10 project. What has surprised me working with such a supposedly rigid modelling system is just how flexible it becomes as it grows, […]

More-than-human

A quote from David Abram’s The Spell of the Sensuous and a picture of birdsong from my project Birds of the Antarctic: “Caught in a mass of abstractions, our attention […]

Looking the wrong way

It is such a challenging time within the hospital. The current round of budget cuts combined with the new framework for the NHS that is in pipeline makes Derriford Hospital […]

Live interval

‘Birds that feed on fish; their excrement will form the beginning of an oasis in which human beings can live, until the next stream of lava smothers it all.’ Manfred […]

It’s Mezz this evening

We are showing films by Phillip Warnell this evening at Mezz (www.mezz.info). He works with medical imagery and links this to the outside world. A man after my own heart!