Respondents (2024) Respondents is a project that includes performance, film and sonic-sculptures (Shield/Armour, Exoskeleton, Limpet and Mermaid) that invite close listening to elements sonically captured beyond the range of human hearing. Constructed in a hand shaping process used in custom automobile manufacturing and sensor technology, these sculptures explore and dialogue with organic elements such as […]
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ArtLab: Sound, Museum of Modern Art, New York. 2023-2026. Overall concept developed in collaboration with Dr. Louisa Penfold. Listening Wall and Sound Sculptures designed by artist Rita Evans. Synthesis Playground designed by Jørgen Noodt Skjærvold and Robin A. Ediger-Seto Fabrication by TwoSeven
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Above Image: Audiograft Festival 2023, at Ovada Gallery. Still from footage by Tom Thistlethwaite. Audiograft 2023, curated by Patrick Farmer and Paul Whitty, the Sonic Art Research Unit, Oxford Brookes University, with the help of Oxford Contemporary Music. Sonic-sculptures installation consisting of stone, plant, and machine. Reeds, fipples and twine. For this audiograft residency and […]
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Stringing the Matrix is a sound-based performance and sculpture commissioned by Tate St Ives. The sculpture was in a solo exhibition with film Coil of Days, 3rd February – May 2nd 2022 at Tate St Ives. Performers and the audience wear wireless headphones to hear the 30-40 minute detailed sound textile piece being constructed. The […]
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16th & 17th July 2022 at Towner Eastbourne. Above video clip: Tuning in a Vacuum, Performance Documentation (Tom Thistlethwaite) of Organ of Organs, 2021. Link here for more video excerpts from the performance. ‘Tuning in a Vacuum’ is a 40 minute live performance of seven sonic objects, where materials, space and sound were played out […]
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Coil of Days is a live performance, film and series of seven sonic sculptures created in 2018-19. “What struck me was the audacity of the opening. It was the loveliest note, long and low, signalling the possibility of another kind of presence as yet undefined in this realm of opening.” Chapter 1: The Realm of […]
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A series of multi-functional and customisable sensory instruments made for and in response to SEND young people and Early Years Children. The resulting sculptures will be available for groups to use at Tate Britain from 2024. PROTOTYPES: the below prototypes were photographed at the Teachers PV in the historical galleries ‘Art for the Crowd’ and […]
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Instrument was developed on residency at Bauhaus Foundation in 2021 and exhibited in Gropius Haus, Nov 2021 – Jun 2022, with works by Charlotte Posenenske / Curated by Alexis Lowry (Dia Art Foundation). “Instrument is a tool for navigating in fictional, collective spaces. The sensitive sound sculpture is a means to explore a complex infrastructure […]
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For one afternoon in May 2015, the Backstage Centre in Thurrock, Essex, became a space where the group dynamics of the community, an elemental part of the works, evolved inside and around the sculptures and structures. Each of these was choreographed one after the other across one space generating a changing set of rhythm […]
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(Above) I tried to get in the bath, but this bar chart got in the way (2020). Colour Pencil, spray paint and graphite on handmade paper. 29 x 42cm Reality is having a laugh at our expense. A deep, elongated belly laugh that creates ripples in the heavy, velvet fabric of our world. You go to […]
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