Works

The Imagined Winter Garden Trail

The Imagined Winter Garden Trail

The Imagined Winter Garden Trail. Photos by Gemma Thorpe The Imagined Winter Garden Trail was a collaboration between myself and the local residents & vegetable growers of Sharrow in Sheffield. Following a research period as artist in residence with Grow Sheffields, Community Growers Project, I worked with five local growers to create interventions, installations and [...]

Tell me when you think 1 min is up from…

Tell me when you think 1 min is up from…

Short Film, 2010, 1m 16s 6 people are asked to say when they think one minute is up, as they sit silently counting in their minds, the world carries on around them. When they declare the time is up, they are taken out of shot. The credits start rolling at 1 minute exactly after which, [...]

Observed Motion.1 & .2

Observed Motion.1 & .2

Two Part Video Installation (loop), 2010 (OM.1 – no sound) (OM.2 – Sound). Observed Motion. 1. Silent, still and out of focus, the image is hard to make out. Punctuated only by some kind of moving shadow flying in and out of focus, occasionally revealing itself as a spider suspended from its thread. Click here [...]

Edge

Edge

2010, Photograph, Lambda Print, Framed 92cm × 72cm. Black tape was carefully placed on the walls and floor of the space so it would appear as the negative markings at the edge of the image on the photographic surface.

8m 8m x 1m

8m 8m x 1m

2010, Photograph, Lambda Print, Diasec 100cm × 37cm. 8metre lengths were marked directly onto the photographic backdrop, the image was cropped & repeated, the first show’s 1m, the following shows 2m and so on. Initial viewing shows a flat clinical B&W graph with uneven increments, but on closer inspection the wobbly lines from the masking [...]

Inertial Frame

Inertial Frame

Film (HDV), 42 minues, Silent, 2009Filmed in the dark winter months of 2008/9 in South West Finland, Inertial Frame captures the moving sea, sky & islands of the beautiful Finnish Archipelago. Consisting of 5 shots between the Islands Pargas and Nauvo, the film explores our perceptions of time, distance and speed in relation to memory, [...]