I was invited by Helmut Lemke to be a part of a collaboration alongside Lee Patterson, Ben Gwilliam and Steve Oliver. We created a piece for Festival Rumlingen. Starting at 1am and finishing with the sunrise Festival Rumlingen happened in Baselland,  Swizterland in August 2010. It consisted of five sound works situated in the landscape, all crossing over one another. It included traditional singers „Geisslechlöpfer“,  new music compositions with clarinets and trumpets, accordions and percussion and loudspeaker installations. Our contribution was a long thin construction of tape, string and bottles all played by the wind. The audience arrived on coaches and walked the route in the dark, none of the musicians or artists were visible. The composition ended at sunrise with Alpine horns playing and a whip demonstration with an outdoor breakfast.

Live Performance and Sound and Video Installation, 2010

Past Signal, is both a performance and installation work, exploring our understanding of distance, speed and time, by playing around with the different properties and speeds of light and sound. Drawing from its military island setting the work looks into how our communication and transportation systems have changed over the last few centuries. I’m interested in what it means to make sound and what it means to be heard, what is the signal to noise ratio?

The far away figure jumps up and down wearing specially built metal shoes, because of the distance between the figure and camera / microphone the sound arrives after the jumper has landed. Click here to see the video.

Live Performance and Short Film, 2010

Past Signal 2, is a performance, short film and installation work, exploring our understanding of distance, speed and time, by playing around with the different properties and speeds of light and sound. Drawing from the history of sound and communication in the Swiss landscape setting the work looks into how our communication and transportation systems have changed over the last few centuries. I’m interested what it means to make sound and what it means to be heard, what is the signal to noise ratio?

The far away figure jumps up and down wearing specially built metal shoes, because of the distance between the figure and camera / microphone the sound arrives after the jumper has landed. Click here to view video in a new page.

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 performances, which formed the backbone of the trail and was shown to the public for one afternoon only on Saturday 12th December 2009 in Sharrow, Sheffield, it was a chance to see the gardens and growing spaces of Sharrow in a new light, it played with the unused & neglected spaces in our neighbourhood and shared the visions, achievements and memories of some of Sharrows Growers. It was a sunny winter day and over one hundred people turned up and took part in the trail.

For more information visit The Imagined Winter Garden Trail website

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, those who are left counting are quietly faded from the screen. Click here to watch film in a new tab.

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 to see video in a new tab.

Observed Motion.2  The Camera is fixed as is the image, the only movement is that of a tiny dead insect attached to the bottom of open window, which is blown around by the wind. The Sound is an ambient recording of the room and the passing traffic below. Click here to see video in a new tab.

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. Click Here to see a larger more detailed version in a new page.

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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 tape and the creases in the backdrop reveal the true depth and space. Click Here to see a larger & more detailed image in a new page.

You can read more about this work and how it came about on the process page.

Film (HDV), 42 minues, Silent, 2009

Filmed 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, technology and human scale. Starting in daylight and ending in darkness the real space and cinema space are bought into question, as the light fades the sense of distance flattens, the movement slows to an imperceptible level.