I’m pleased to announce that Tell me when you think one minute is up from… has just won the award for best art and experimental film category at the One Minute Film & Video Festival in Aarau, Switzerland.

Tell me when you think 1 minute is up from… continues to tour as part of 1 minute, (volume 4)

7th-9th September Ukrainian art festival, in Koktebel.

11th September part of the exhibition “Future Proof” at the Marseille Project Gallery

19th October (18.00) Plymouth Arts Centre. Introduced by Kayla Parker & Stuart Moore

My Film ‘Tell me when you think one minute is up from…’ is screening as a part of One Minute – Interntional Film & Video Festival in Aarau, Switzerland. Click here to download the PDF catalogue

Rehearsals on hill for Festival Rümlingen

An all night outdoor experimental sound festival in the middle of the beautiful Swiss countryside. I will be collaborating with Lee Patterson, Helmut Lemke and Ben Gwilliam on a piece that is played soley by the wind. More information at Festival Rümlingen website.

[[Show as slideshow]] 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 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

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

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 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.

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.

2010, Photograph, Lambda Print, Diasec 100cm × 37cm.

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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.

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

I’ve been asked to be part of an on going series of articles entitled ’5 Sound Questions to…’ on the Everyday Listening Blog