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PADA residency,Barreiro 2022
No Thanks to us (2022) video projection on found screens, gallery at PADA, Barreiro Portugal Despite it all (2022) Photograph on vegetal paper, projected collaged moving image, 4 mins 68” looped, wooden batons Nostal-dia (2022) black and white photographs on vegetal paper, projection of moving image, slowing alternating from side to side, red and transparent,…
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PELTZ GALLERY VIDEO COMMISSION 2022
This video collage is an exploration of the aesthetics of touch, its seductive sounds and our relationship to surface in art. In the increasingly sanitized conditions we live in, our heightened experience of touch and sound can be seen as a transgression, a new taboo. The video, Noli Mi Tangere, looks to question the known…
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Extract (moving mountains) (2023)
Working with analogue photographs of the coastline, the collages use vegetal prints as a counterpoint to the black and white images Projected film on photo etched book pieces Tectonic Touch_ii (2023)Projected video onto photographic collage on vegetal paper
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She Speaks Up!
Our desire for beautiful gemstones belies the problematics of their extraction, often environmental or unethically sourced, yet part of a culture of value that goes back thousands of years – the Ancient Egyptians adorned themselves with lapis lazuli, the Mayans used turquoise. Now these stones are becoming rarer and more difficult to mine, as mines…
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Copperas at BEYOND SILVER, Birmingham (2022-3)
The Alum Chine is the name of a pathway through the Westbourne pine forests to the beaches on the other side. ‘Chine’ meaning ravine where water once flowed, and ‘alum’ because it is the place where the first chemical works existed in Britain- to extract, manufacture and mine alum and copperas or green vitriol used…
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Stone Tape (2022)
‘A stone tape is a material object that has “recorded” the energy of a past event. Widely popularized by British author Nigel Kneale in his 1972 teleplay The Stone Tape, beliefs in the recording ability of objects and environments span the practices of heritage preservation, paranormal investigation, sound and media theory, and spiritual pilgrimage. But if…
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WCPF 21 installation award
Grounding (2021) The installation is called GROUNDING (2021)It is made up of 12 large scale photo etchings, ground rock pigment, two C-type photographic prints, articulated and supported on wooden stilts This installation piece brings together a series of image-objects that challenge our fragmented relationship to the landscape, using handmade photographic pieces and printmaking techniques to do so. In…
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Hypnos and the Dissolution Process (2021)
WITHOUT HORIZON, WITHOUT SHORE, Lambeth County Court SE11 4DZ @geographies_of_print with Victoria Ahrens, Carol Wyss, Victoria Arney Hypnos and the Dissolution Process (2021) 6 monitor video collage installation, sculptured book pieces, photoetchings on stilt supports and photographs with hand applied rock pigment In Greek mythology, Hypnos, the god of sleep, lived in a cave at…
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By a Long Chalk
By A Long Chalk (2021) Chalk is a material with a long history of associations with art practice. Formed during the Cretacious period (Creta is the Latin for chalk) 145 million years ago at the end of the Jurassic era, it holds in its structure the fossilized homes of millions of empty shells of sea…
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Auratic oscillation (2021)
Here and There at WINDOW ROOM (Philadelphia)/ PARKHAUS 15 (Orlando,FL) 22nd May 2021- live streaming Ebb and Flow (2021) Split screen, inverted colours Video collage, audio (6 mins, 49’’) Otherworldly walk into and out of the landscapes in duplicate, the Doppleganger out of synch, a glitch in the technological sublime landscape, that serves to create…
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Inclined (2021)
In this series of prints and print-objects, Deep Time, I have been further motivated to explore these constructed landscapes as a way of understanding that which stands still, yet still changes, often imperceptibly- restaging combinations of transfer prints and photo-etchings, as sculptural framed pieces, to create impossible relationships between distance and nearness- what is in…
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A stone’s throw (2020)
Using photographs, digital prints, and photo etchings as well as screenprints, I have been making a series of image-objects that reflect on our relationship to the outdoors, and the mineral. Looking at images I took before lockdown, of vast outdoor spaces, and having time to look deeply into their make up both conceptually and materially…
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Performances- Topophilia Kelder Projects
RADICAL VENTRILOQUISM: ACTS OF SPEAKING FOR & SPEAKING THROUGH at KELDER PROJECTS, Islington, London Guest Curator: Lee Campbell 12.03.20- 19.04.20 | 18.30–21.00 “KELDER Projects is a curatorial research space that aims to expand on traditional modes of display and in turn offer up alternative ways of disseminating contemporary art. The purpose of the space is…
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ENTER ART, Aarhus, Denmark SOLO SHOW: PARTS UNKNOWN, Ground Truth 6 March- 2 April 2020
On Exactitude in Science by Jorge Luis Borges (translated by Andrew Hurley) In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and…
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Conditions, 89 Gloucester road, 2020
Starting to produce work for my solo show in Denmark in March Based on the notion of phantom mapping and projection mapping- where copyright traps were drawn into early cartographies of newly explored topographic landscapes- these paper towns or phantom mountain ranges have often been translated onto contemporary maps, such as google earth and gps…
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AR(T)CHAEOLOGY: Intersection of Photography and Archaeology at NiMAC Nicosia, Cyprus -research project, and exhibition October 2018- January 2019
A year long project organised and curated by the International Association of Photography and Theory (IAPT), Cyprus- to explore the intersection between notions of archaeology, the archive, memory and memorial and contemporary photographic practice. A number of artists in dialogue with one another, addressing these issue in their practice were invited to participate in this…
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A True Date with a Palm Tree published in Vista Journal, No. 5 (2019)
A new series, ‘A True Date with a Palm Tree’ (2019) looks at the historical migration of the Date Palm tree and its colonial and anthropological significance in botanical, and archival photographs, while interrogating its place in landscapes of political uncertainty- in particular in the wake of increasingly closed migration policies. The project combines a…
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Parts Unknown- Selected for False Memories exhibition at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum 2020
________________________________A series of photo etchings, folded and turned into stand alone sculptural pieces- exploring the fragmentation and erosion of our coasts, and their significance as places where land and sea jostle for authority. These are places on the edges of maps, where maps would have begun, as early cartographers traces the shape of their coastline…
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Out there (CMKY)- exhibition at IMPACT 2020 in Hong Kong
Salt prints and photoetchings of fragmented landscapes, are held together in open frames. These are then hand coloured, alluding to the history of early ‘colour’ photography, using cyan, magenta, black and yellow- the same separations used in printmaking processes today. Ground Resist (2019) This series looks at the notion of the disappearing landscape, through…
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Columbus Exchange (Not in my Garden) 2019
Not in my Garden (2019) Photographic Print on copy paper, wooden sticks, projection onto the surface (26 seconds looped) “At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory.” ― W. G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn Gaerd (2019), Digital transfer photographs on copy paper, wooden sticks…