How William Herschel (it is his hand in the picture) and his discovery of infrared radiation became central to the work I made for the Verne Prison last year, called […]
I am really pleased to announce ‘Forgetful Worlds’ has been selected by Tom Jeffreys for the Clean Unclean season on the online art-thinking-nature-writing magazine The Learned Pig. It is a fascinating […]
This short film has just been released about my time in the Observatory. It was an interesting challenge to try and condense all that has gone on there into just […]
The brochure for this years Site Festival in Stroud is now out. I will be doing a performance-talk as part of the festival in Week Three, on Wed 15th April […]
My time in the actual Observatory is now over, so the work continues back in the studio, where I have put up all the harmonograph drawings that I made at the […]
The research talk I gave recently in the Planetarium at the Winchester Science Centre is now online. It is about 35 minutes long. Thank Phil for filming this.
A recent Horizon programme took a look at our latest understanding of how the planets circle our Sun. Away with the old idea of fixed orbits, and all those mechanical […]
Time to let something go. This time it is ‘Tonsure’, an artwork I made some years ago from the hair off my head. This piece consisted of my blowing a […]
I have been wanting to experiment with chalk drawing for some time, so sitting here in the Observatory on the South Downs seems like a good time to start. Drawing […]
I took a walk up onto Cheesefoot Head early this morning, to see if I could clear my head from all that I have unearthed during this residency so far. […]
Flint is where I am looking at the moment, the flints that are found inside the chalk. The two materials are just so different – hard/soft; grey-brown/white; one you can cut with/the […]
Today it is a chance to work on the images for my talk, I Love Philae and Philae Loves Me, in the Planetarium at the Winchester Science Centre in about ten […]
So I was looking for something that connected these three things: the Victorian scientist Thomas Henry Huxley, the small calcified plates out of which the chalk of the South Downs […]
I just couldn’t pass up the chance to do a talk it the Planetarium: such a fantastic space in which to present work-in-progress, but also to try out some images […]