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Output is across a number of areas in the arts and media including broadcast documentary, short film (drama, dance, experimental), digital media (installation and cross-art collaborations), theatre and dance (video and lighting design).
I work with light, film, digital video and photography both separately and in combination. These elements of my work can be found in the separate categories on the menu at the top of the page but they are all part of one approach which is driven by ideas, context and conveying meaning and emotion - finding the right combination of forms and detail within those forms, to create a seamless whole. The creative process encompasses the different disciplines, informed by each, whether it results in a film, lighting design or installation.
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News:
+ I have been commissioned to create a new permanent work for the BSF Public Art programme in Wolverhampton.
+ 'Stir' a reworking of the large scale interactive work 'TopShot' presented at the Digital Futures In Dance conference in Bournemouth 8-10 Sept 2011.
+ 'If All the Mortar..' screened in the Artist's Film & Video Salon at Wirksworth Festival Sept 2011.
+ In March I completed a commission by Hybrid in Birmingham to create a project for the Inhabit:Empty Spaces Initiative.
+ A new projection installation on the theme of 'Artists at Work', commissioned by Somerset Art Works, The Brewhouse and Reveal, was shown at The Brewhouse, Taunton 11 Sept - 9 Oct.
+ 'Canon' a new collaborative work with Thomas Hall and commissioned by Sadler's Wells. Shown on 30th and 31st Jan as part of 'Sampled' event.
+ 'TopShot' was presented as part of British Dance Edition 2010 at The Electric Cinema in Birmingham on 6th Feb. |
An interactive installation, in collaboration with Thomas Hall, where the viewers actively shape and become part of the work in a new take on the 'Busby Berkeley Topshot'. Each participant has a unique creative experience governed by their own interaction as they step onto the silver screen. Watch a video here. Supported by Swindon Dance.
..turned to water.
In one part of the installation video was projected onto a semi-transparent wall. Performers emerged from the shadows in a room beyond the screen to integrate their live physical presence with the video imagery.
Ideas from a period of research and development and collaboration included creating compositions and texture through use of a range of very minimal variations on white light, framing the space physically with lights, performers manipulating reflected light on stage.
This collaboration with a choreographer created a room from multiple projections, viewed from the fourth wall and inhabited by dancers. It played with mass and perspective using travelling shots, surfaces and open landscapes. The majority of light came from the projections themselves.
A large scale artwork inspired by the illuminated signs in B&B windows. I worked with residents of a number of streets to create their own personal messages to the world, in light from their windows. Some of these messages have been exhibited at FYC Gallery and the Town Hall in Blackpool.
A projection installation on the theme of 'Artists at Work', commissioned by Somerset Art Works in partnership with The Brewhouse Gallery and Reveal.
This solo project was set up in a disused indoor market, visible through a series of windows on 2 sides, using computer controlled projection and light to appear to trap a series of slowly shifting and changing seascapes within a room on dry land. The cycles were programmed to run remotely only at night for 3 weeks.