Ricochet at Site ’15
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 harmonograph wall
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 […]
Out of the box
Today is my last day in the Observatory. It has come to feel a little like home. My time there has initiated masses of ideas for new work, which I […]
Philae talk now online
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.
Kepler Orrery
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 […]
Decommissioned by moths
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 […]
The colour white
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 […]
Headlost Walkfound
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. […]
Romantics in space
I don’t know about you, but when I am putting on a talk I have to run through it again and again until I feel it is inside me; that […]
Flint nautilus
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 […]
In the round
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 […]
Ehux from space
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 […]
You will find me in the planetarium
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 […]
Your lens has no shutter
The architects of the Observatory were inspired by “the geometric works of American artist Sol LeWitt and Antonello da Messina’s painting ‘St Jerome in His Study’. I’ve been looking at […]
The sharpest of edges
I am looking at this piece of agate, but thinking about flint (which is not so dissimilar in many ways, both are crystalline forms of silica). Flint is a feature […]
