Surround sounds different
I’ve been working with Thol on the surround-sound audio for Surface Tensions in SVA’s wonderful Goods Shed. By now he has at least 100 tracks running simultaneously, so it takes […]
Searching for synchronicity
Last week I was working with Nat and Than in SVA‘s Goods Shed on the final stages of Surface Tensions. We have all learnt so much over the past year […]
Into the microbiocene
Just getting started on research for my AMR Fellowship. It has been a while since I have come across a subject that gets the the core of things so quickly. […]
Searching for the +ve
Really happy to be starting a new project: a Creative Fellowship at the University of Exeter, part of the Arts and Culture programme. My fellowship is with the AMR network […]
@surface.tensions VII
With Surface Tensions now put on hold thanks to lockdown, I’m doing what I can in isolation. So, here are the latest images from the project Instagram account @surface.tensions Enjoy!
Artist Support Pledge #2
Due to the C19 virus many artists (including myself) have found themselves with shows cancelled, teaching gone and technical support jobs disappeared overnight as the lockdown takes effect. So following […]
The Artist Support Pledge
Due to the C19 virus many artists (including myself) have found themselves with shows cancelled, teaching gone and technical support jobs disappeared overnight as the lockdown takes effect. So following […]
@surface.tensions VI
Here is the latest batch of Instagram work-in-progress pics (@surface.tensions) for Surface Tensions. I have been experimenting with drawing a small section of the riverbed in VR, also taking images […]
@surface.tensions V
Today I’ve been drawing FM Halford using a chalk line. See @surface.tensions on Instagram for details.
@surface.tensions IV
Work continues on Surface Tensions, which is scheduled to open on Friday 24th April at Mottisfont. I’m continuing to post updates on my Instagram account @surface.tension
Estover for the Imagination
Reinhild and I have now finished the research stage of our residency in the New Forest. We presented our findings and ran a workshop at spudWorks in Sway last week. […]
Hoofscape
It is the unexpected beauty at the heart of technology’s ability to transform the everyday into the exceptional that keeps me going. Here, for example, is the horseshoe print I […]
Mushroom point cloud
This image of some mushrooms near to Stonyford Pond on the heath at Hilltop is made up of individual dots in 3Dspace, each one coloured. So once placed inside a […]
On another planet
Sometimes out on the heath it does feel as if you are on another planet, in this case with hoof prints embedded in the surface mud.
Waterlogged beauty
Speaking of beauty, I saw the dark bottom of one pond sprinkled with white seeds like a delicate patterned tablecloth; and then there were these plants, rising through the peat-tinted […]
In the land of Lilliput
Out on the heath the action happens well below you, at ground level. The close-cropped growth of grasses; the slow bonsai-like growth of the woody plants; the sinking of the […]
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