In the Offing - Sink or Swim projections at the Old Lifeboat House Porthleven

The Porthleven Prizewinners exhibition returns to Porthleven as the first exhibition of the year in the Old Lifeboat House 14-20 March. Open daily 11am-5pm & again 7-9pm for projections on the building.

Fantastic co-creation for DATAFIELD

A huge shout of thanks to all those who participated in the DATAFIELD project in the last two days … I couldn’t have made it without you! The video goes into production now and I hope it will get its first viewing in April at The Art Cohort for my show Body of Work and later in May at Watershed … dates TBC.

Here is a tiny glimpse of what is to come.

Inaugural pop-up exhibition at Sion Hill

Last minute pop-up exhibition by part-time MA fine art students at Bath Spa 4-9/2.

Showing Mapping Loci.

DATAFIELD new dates Thursday 13th & Friday 14th February

Large scale participatory performance art project happening at Newton Park Campus Bath Spa University 10-4:30 in the TV studios. Datafield explores paradox between didactic education systems and information overload streamed through algorithmic murmuration and the relationship this might have on confidence to make decisions and general mental wellbeing. The project has been developed as a collaboration between art, curatorial practice, sociology, mathematics, dance, film & sound production. Participants will explore themes together and develop visual performative representation of ideas that will animate the “datafield”, a 10x10 matrix of performers costumed in morphsuits that represent their own data, collected through a gateway survey. To take part please complete the survey https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/5JY3TGM.

Materiality Exhibition 44AD

Cataloguing Anxiety (Part 1 & 2) exhibited in the Materiality group exhibition at 44AD from 9/1-1/2.

Artist talks on 19/1 at 3pm

In the Offing - Porthleven Prize exhibition

My work from a group residency in Porthleven Cornwall is being exhibited at the new Bath Spa campus at Locksbrook Road from 13/11-1/12. Private view on 12; please feel welcome to come 6-8pm.

Click on the image below to view gallery.

Artist talk at Salon48

Looking forward to experimenting with live movement capture and chatting about my work at Salon48 this month.

Exhibition at St Mary's

Launching my artist in residence at St Mary’s Calne I have a pop-up exhibition & talk at the school this week.

Porthleven Prize work ready for first viewing

Friday 20th September at Bath Spa MAFA Interim Show along side the graduate exhibition, I will be exhibiting my work in response to the Porthleven Prize residency I undertook earlier this year. First pictures being released here, click on image to view gallery:

RWA Open Exhibition

Body As Evidence (Laid Out & Put Away) selected for the RWA Open Exhibition starting Saturday 28th September and showing until Sunday 1st December.

Meet the Makers at The Holburne Up Late Friday 26th July 5-9pm

Very excited to be sharing my arts practice in the House of Imagination in the grounds of the Holburne for Up Late on the 26th July. Exhibiting Cataloguing Anxiety Part 1 & Part 2, Body Bags & Weight whilst sharing the opportunity to experiment working in sheet lead and demonstrating casting.

Connected ... Disconnected ... Reconnected exhibition at 44AD Bath

Pleased to be showing work at 44AD again, this time in a group show with other MA students from Bath Spa and curated by Thuy Bui & Shubhani Sharma. Private view is Tuesday 23rd July 6-8pm and the gallery is open daily till Saturday. I was invited to exhibit Body As Evidence (Laid Out series) & Strange Fruit.

DATAFIELD goes live! DELAYED

DATAFIELD project is NOT going ahead on the 12th & 13th June at Newton Park Bath Spa University but will be rescheduled for welcome week in the new academic year. We will be recruiting 100 student participants to create the performance through workshops over two days. Filming will happen on the second day with a drone for aerial views and the final video artwork will be exhibited in December.

Work selected for Bath Open at 44AD

Proud to be exhibiting at 44AD again for FAB19 Bath Open. Body As Evidence is displayed in the gallery vitrine with four pairs from each series, Laid Out & Put Away. I would love them to be in their full glory with the whole set on or in their new exhibition display cases but that can happen in their next outing.

Award from the Harbutt Fund for Datafield project

Thank you to everyone who has been supporting my crowdfunding for Datafield; I’ve just had a big boost being awarded some funding through the Harbutt Fund which is a wonderful scheme that links successful alumni from Bath Spa to support upcoming students like myself to make ambitious projects happen. There is still a way to go to have enough funds to complete the project but with increased collaboration with other BA & MA students costs are coming down but please do consider making a contribution - however big or small, it is appreciated!

Selected in final seven for Porthleven Prize residency

I am so pleased to say that I have been selected for the final seven creative arts practitioners in the Porthleven Prize and I am very much looking forward to spending two weeks there collaborating with a group of incredibly talented people.

I am uploading the slides from my presentation (just click to see them) that show my responses to the first week we had in the town during March with some thoughts on what I am most interested in developing.

Click on image to see all slides

Colour trials for Body As Evidence

Experimenting with colour, glazes & display designs for the two series of Body As Evidence Laid Out & Put Away

First firing successful

The first firing of Body As Evidence has been successful and I’m just testing glaze colours which will change them radically. Happy with the turquoise & yellow, still working on the exact shades of red, black, khaki & lilac but the grey needs major work.

Cataloguing Anxiety (Part 1)

Just finished printing the full copies of the first edition of Cataloguing Anxiety (Part 1) a collection of drypoint etchings depicting the traces of anxiety left in the small broken objects that students have left in my classrooms over the years. Archeologists use the detritus of previous civilisations to discover their habits; maybe we should keep a closer check on what our own tells us about our society? Part 2 is tiny lead sculptures of seven of these object and can be seen in the RWA Sculpture Open Exhibition in Bristol until the end of May - let me know what you think if you go to see it.