Respondents is a project that includes performance, a split screen film (10 min 34 sec running time) and four sound objects. Respondents, 2024 includes performance, a split screen film (10 min 34 sec running time) and four performative objects that emit recordings of seaweed. Respondents Objects are titled: ‘Shield’, ‘Limpet’, ‘Jig’, ‘Metal Mermaid’. Performed […]
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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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(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 Falling I’m thinking about the way the titles of your recent drawings pierce through the hypnotic atmosphere of their imagery. Titles such as ‘I tried to […]
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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 sound of wool fibres passing through percussion and metal. […]
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Above: Speakin’ to the Big Wall, 2021. Colour pencil and graphite on paper. 42 x 30cm These were made while living on my own in a Bauhaus Masterhouse in Dessau during lockdown in 2021. It was a ghostly, domestic, psychedelic reality.
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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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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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Gatherings, 2020 “There’s always a central connecting thing, whether that’s an object or the jelly-like surface you have in these drawings – there’s something that can be gathered around and then transformed by the presence of other people. I really love how in these (drawings), while you don’t have a physical breath, or physical bodies […]
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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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