Contemporary installation/journal/automaton artist interested in time, nature, machines, transduction, autonomy, emergence and microcosms.
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 | | Front covers for the scientific journal Nature Genetics |
 | | Photos of my show 'Strange Luminescence' at Falmouth, UK |
 | | Have you ever had a dream which involved technology which doesn't exist (to your knowledge!) in the real world? This is a home for that technology. I asked friends to give me written descriptions and sketches of things they saw in dreams. If you'd like to add to it, please email me; it would be great to have more.
Click on an image for a description of the dream (you may have to scroll down). |
 | | Sometimes you have to follow dark paths... these works look at the idea of collapse: of buildings, of society. Films and dreams are starting points in a long process which tries to capture an instant of collapse. |
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| Originally, I trained as a scientist, but I have always been torn between art and science. Having practiced illustration and graphic design, I finally moved into fine art and completed an MA (with distinction) in Fine Art:Contemporary Practice at University College Falmouth, in Cornwall, UK. My art is mainly installation-based, although I draw and paint too: my sketch books are extremely important to me as a way of capturing and experimenting with ideas.
Imagine a parallel universe in which ideas, novels, illustrations are never considered complete unless they combine the mundane with the poetic, and unless they are complemented by a working machine which somehow integrates these attributes... I intend borrowing some of these devices for our own world. With my installations, I aim to combine the ordinary with a sense of wonder. Are they models of myths or distant places? Are they scenarios (perhaps dream-like, perhaps of memories or prophesies), which have been stopped in time to allow us to contemplate... |
| The Myth of Progress
It is a recurring fantasy, and one which is often used as a setting in the science fiction short stories of the 50's and 60's: the modernist house built upon a ridge, ample in its terraces and decks, spacious, quiet interiors, the play of sun and shadow, dark tropical timbers and glass, polished concrete, expanses of tiled floors, the whole surrounded by miles and miles of virgin forest, as if the house has been gently lowered into place. | | Quiet Emptiness
I decided to start with a small painting - one of the baths in my MA show: Hope . Most of the painting is in oils, but I needed a different quality for the landscape in the bottom of the bath, and so switched to gouache by using an absorbent ground.
I've also started another, much larger painting based on a scene from Koyaanisqatsi which I find particularly haunting; it is of an interior of an apartment which is derelict and soon to be demolished. | | All Lines Converge
Three months since I finished my MA in Fine Art, here in Falmouth. I've been busy with some work and courses and now have a few months to concentrate on my art and see whether I can earn money from it! Yup, it's make or break time... at the end of June I need to be earning enough one way or another to remain self-employed. |
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