Awarded Highly Commended for Haptic Traces Series in Hauser & Wirth Prize at Black Swan Arts

Three works accepted for Black Swan Arts in Frome 15/7-11/9/22

Very pleased to have three submissions accepted for Black swan Arts annual open exhibition this year. Haptic Traces prints & videos, Strange Fruit and Body Bags will all be on display from mid-July until early September in what is usually an excellent selling show, don’t miss out!

Datafield in 44AD for FAB 26/5-11/6/2022

Lisa Lindqvist curates Glitch: a temporary malfunction, a spike or change in flow, a time to pause, rest, recalibrate and reform … and Datafield is IN. Delighted and loving the other artists I am exhibiting with.

Taster clips from Datafield

Back by popular demand: Haptic Traces Together Apart returns for the mid-term Emerge Showcase

May sees your chance to get featured in a new Haptic Traces Together Apart cocreative drawing experience. Our physical interactions have been significantly altered by the influence of COVID, join a visual debate on how we can relearn to relate.

The first Together Apart Haptic Traces was cocreated at the Emerge Showcase October 2021. This time we are asking you to think outside the box whilst being inside it with Schrodinger’s cat for company and inspiration.

Promo video for Haptic Traces

Datafield screening 3rd & 4th March Bristol

A great chance to see Datafield on a big screen and have a social time in Bristol

RIP Anne Harbour my mother 29/12/21

Sadly my mother passed away peacefully just before new year and I’m glad that I could be there despite strict international lockdowns. Whilst in her house I found this early sculpture of mine, neglected and battered in a cupboard - no surprise as my mother suffered with hoarding disorder and dementia - but it was theraputic to renovate it carefully and remember the love with which it was made.

I will miss my mother but I am glad her suffering is over and I thank her for the opportunity she has given me to take a little time whilst resolving her affairs to also focus on my artistic intents. I hope that I make her proud.

Graduation

I’ve graduated before but not attended the ceremonies, it’s never seemed important. This time, however, it seemed so neccessary to be with friends that really matter and celebrate together.

Supporting PhD research using art as a tool in active recovery from childhood trauma

I wanted to report my involvement, as an artist facilitator, in supporting a fantastic PhD project exploring ideas of recovery from childhood trauma that has been running at Southmead in Bristol. Victoria Christodoulilis is the wonderful sociologist who supported me in managing Datafield safely and ethically with positive outcomes and she is now undertaking her own research with practical arts sessions for groups of adult survivors. I have always taken an approach in facilitating art with others, that, like Picasso & Beuys, I believe everyone can be an artist if they have an intention to explore or communicate their ideas through materials. It is a joy watching confidence develop and extraordinary artworks evolve. If you are interested in active recovery, do get in touch with the Southmead project, they are a really dynamic team.

1st Prize in Bath Open!

This was such an unexpected win that I was late to the opening night and missed the prizegiving! Really proud to have this work recognised because performance drawing is a challenging media to use well and I hope Haptic Traces Exposed holds some real resonance.

Fantastic opening night at Emerge Studios

Much fun had by all, enjoying a social gathering for the first time in a long time. Great to see so many people enjoying remote teledancing with Higher in collaboration with Dave Webb and Human Murmuration was available for those who were unable to get to the degree show and Haptic Traces was been amazing!

Emerge Graduate Residency Showcase

After the social isolation of lockdown after lockdown I am so pleased to be able to invite people to connect through my Haptic Traces 360 personal drawing experience by contributing to a communal work created cumulatively within an individual space. Please join our celebration exhibition and open studios at Sion Hill Bath Spa University Campus 15-22/10/21.

I am also very happy to say that my residency at Emerge has been extended for a second year and I look forward to further collaborations and cocreative activitiy.

Will you take the challenge and enter into the Haptic Traces drawing box? Make your mark, together apart.

Spectacular views in Porthleven for the inaugeral arts festival 2021

A wonderful weekend in Porthleven recreating the Sink or Swim projection installation on the Old Lifeboat House for the finale of the inaugeral arts festival. My sculptures, Swinging the Lead and All at Sea were also on display in Trevor Osborn’s garden for the opening event, last weekend and looked very dramatic with spotlights in the dark.

Such a delight for these works to return to Porthleven which inspired their making during a residency in 2019 as their 2020 exhibition was cut short when we went into the first national COVID lockdown.

Swinging the Lead was inspired by conversations with Nick Hardcastle (RIP) while he was building his beautiful wooden skiff, discussing the tensions between Rick Stein’s tourist restaurant and local fisherman Gary Eastwell and the BREXIT vote. Life on the coast is not an easy balance!

Setting up the projection box by the pill box in Porthleven

Sink or Swim projections on the Old Lifeboat House

Surprised to be the star of RSMA exhibition

I was excited to be featured installing Three Sheets to the Wind in an interview to promote the upcomomh RSMA exhibition at Mall Galleries London.

Timelapse of installation

Interview during installation at Mall Galleries London, with Chair of RSMA

MA degree show & grade success

Happy and proud to have passed my MA with a Distinction grade at last and that my final works are accessible to the public in the 2021 cohort exhibition at Locksbrook Road until 30/9. I recreated Human Murmuration in a VR format to be shown alongside Datafield on a large format TV screen.

Visitors experiencing the VR version of Human Murmuration at the Bath Spa MA degree show opening night 2021.

Return to Porthleven

Thrilled to be invited to return to Porthleven to re-exhibit my sculptures and illuminate the Lifeboat station again for the first Porthleven Arts Festival. Hard to believe it was the week before Lockdown March 2020 when we had installed our work for exhibition only to close it down and return home in a retreat from COVID. Just two sculptures will be returning as the third will be in London at the Mall Galleries. However, I’m glad Swinging the Lead will be there to commemorate the passing of Nick Hardcastle, one of the people I met while in residence who inspired the work I made. The sculptures will be on view in the gardens of Trigg House from 24/9-3/10 and Sink or Swim will be projected on the Lifeboat House in the evenings of 1-3/10

Upcoming MA Show open for public viewing

Very pleased to be able to reshow work created for my MA degree exhibition last year, alongside this year’s graduates. The private view is 24/9 and open hours are 10am-8pm Monday-Friday 10am-4pm Saturday & Sunday from 25-30 September. Come and check out the VR version of Human Murmuration for yourself - created especially for this exhibition in collaboration with Dave Webb with production support from J Ponte. You need to book via this link.

Haptic Traces at Abbey Hotel Art Bar

Emerge Artists exhibit at the Art Bar Abbey Hotel Bath

Opening night Thursday 9th September 5-8pm

Work on display 9-27th September

New job with Strode College

I am pleased to be appointed to lecture L2/L3 Art & Design with textile specialism at Strode College part time for the next year. I’ve been enjoying developing screenprint & disperse dye samples inspired by seaweeds found on the beach in the summer.

Excited to be selected for the RSMA exhibition at mall Galleries London

I feel a little strange seperating the All at Sea Porthleven triptych but very pleased Three Sheets to the Wind has been selected for the Royal Society of Marine Artists open exhibition at Mall Galleries in London. The show opens on 29/9 and runs until 10/10.

Datafield at Wiltshire Creative film festival Salisbury Playhouse July 7th & 8th

So weird to see myself 6m tall on a big screen but great to see Datafield at full 4K resolution!