PROJECTS INFORMATION
BLANKS AND TABS: A STORY OF CONNECTION, JIGSAWS AND FINDING AN ANTIDOTE FOR THE HARD TIMES
After the pandemic gave them time to practise, a married pair of retired NHS workers and dissectologists prepare for the upcoming British Puzzle Championships. A slice of life experimental documentary about the need for connection, community and Britain post pandemic. 'Blanks and Tabs' follows the lives of Clive and his wife Annette as they gear up to take part in the Pairs category of the Tenth Annual Gibsons British Jigsaw Championships in Newmarket, West Suffolk. They found each other and then they found puzzling.
Documentary - 25:00 minutes
THE MAST (wip)
A newly planted 5G mast is placed in an empty field overlooking a lonely older man's small house. He doesn’t quite understand what it is, but over time, and after more visits to the site he starts to feel its presence. A story of learning and understanding about the physical nature of the internet, the footprint of the digital self and the ever increasing destruction of the planet through the need to be forever connected.
Animation - 5:00 minutes (projected)
MY MAST
Since July 2020 the Government has been supporting the roll out of 5G, with funding and law changes. It is said to have revolutionised daily lives, industries and public services but what happens when a 30 metre tall totem of the future is erected 5ft from your front door and you have to face the true weight of your digital self everyday?
‘my masT’ explores our reliance on constant connection through accounts from the public, from different communities around Britain who have all had to face the reality of how the Internet exists. They can no longer ignore what it takes to keep us connected and are reminded of the physical cost to live both on and offline. By asking the same questions to each subject a consensus will start to form on how the public actually understands the Internet. Now, more than ever we must understand how the Internet exists and how our digital selves have a physical effect on the planet. This is not an attempt to vilify the global network, but to show how important it is to understand what it physically takes to keep our digital selves alive, and question our contradictory attitudes if we have to suddenly face that everyday.
Experimental Moving Image - 4:41 minutes
ALL MY WORK IS WORK IN PROGRESS VOL.2
My ‘failures’ will be part of my success and, as an artist, will be as transparent as the resin that I've used to put them on display. I have cemented my rejections to exist in my body of work forever. This is an embodiment of the journey of a creative, always a working progress. Each one of the rejection letters I have got, or will receive, are in the process of being made into individual resin pieces.
Sculpture - A4 Printer paper, Clean Epoxy Resin, Antique Saw Bench
SURFACE LEVEL
‘Surface Level’ focuses on highlighting the massive issues surrounding the climate crisis through a hyper focused macro point of view. The climate crisis is a hyperobject, it is too large for any human to truly comprehend, so this work condenses it all by showing the similarities between the human and non-human world at surface level. The photographs are shot in ultraviolet allowing the sun’s rays to be captured in-camera, this technique turns suncream into a dark viscous liquid, which here symbolises damage. The uncanny nature of this substance is ambiguous, it could be sap, blood or even oil covering the natural surfaces, which adds tangibility to the otherwise abstract image. The stained images represent how inescapable the effects of the climate crisis are, for everything and everyone.
Ultraviolet Photography series
FUTURE TOURIST
A curated display of my ultraviolet street photography from all over the world. From Japan to Iceland to Edinburgh to Canada and more, I document the world through speculative future lens where our home has become uncanny. We are trapped inside the viscous shadow of hypocrisy and witness our current attitudes being displayed in a time where the world looks different. The direction of this series is to cover as much as the world as possible and turn mundanity turn into magic.
Ultraviolet Photography series
PAST PHOTOS OF THE FUTURE
In this series I take my techniques seen in my series ‘FUTURE TOURIST’ and apply them to tourists of the past. By sourcing old street photographs in antique shops, charity shops, markets and other places around the world I can continue to build this conceptual ‘universe’ of mine. Using generative AI to build out the images landscapes and editing them to be able to sit along side my present ultraviolet photography means I can cover not only our attitudes of today but those of decades ago.
Ultraviolet Photography series
THE GREEN, GREEN GRASS OF HOME
When we could no longer ignore the destruction we had caused on the world, The Designer created a new one.
A geoengineer created the first prototype ‘designer climate’ in Northern Ireland to try and tackle the ever declining livable space on the earth. After losing his wife to the bitter hand of greed he vowed to give the earth the respect it had always asked for. The Green Green Grass of Home, gives us a documentary style glimpse into a bleak future where the climate crisis is pushed to tipping point entwined with a tale of warning and revenge.
Experimental Moving Image / Animation - 19:58 minutes
I TRANSFORM FOR YOU
The true basis of life, culture and a future of beauty...is the land. In this film we see what it takes to give back to the land. A transformation takes place. A transformation for revenge, a transformation for love and a transformation for the longevity of this planet. I Transform for you is a bad trip for a good reason. Enter the breathing stomata and learn what it is to truly give yourself away. Animation collaboration with William Fairbrother.
Animation - 7:48 minutes
Attributes:
Athens Digital arts Festival
Shortlisted for Performance Short Film Competition 2023
Malarkey Film Festival The London Series: CREEPUSCULA
MARGARET GALLAGHER IS REAL
In a speculative timeline where the climate crisis was forced to tipping point, causing a planetary reaction which changed the way we see the world, Margaret Gallagher still lives 'off-grid' like she has done her entire life. She talks of the Internet, her carbon footprint and the ever-worsening weather as we see the blueprint of a way of life that may just be the answer to tackling the impending end of the world.
Experimental Moving Image / Documentary - 19:58 minutes
Attributes:
Grand Prize winner Nikon Photo Contest 2023
Progress. On Contemporary and Future Society Group show with Loosenart in Rome
Long listed for the Robert Walters Group UK New Artist of the Year 2021 Award
TRAVEL AND TOURISM
On going journalistic documentary series where I place myself as a future tourist documenting the world since it changed. Set again in my speculative future where the landscape looks different but people still act the same. I have made work for this series in places like Japan, New York, Dungeness, Edinburgh and Italy so far.
Experimental Moving Image / Documentary series
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’Seeking the Sun they found Oblivion’ won the Bronze Award in the Rush to the Wilderness show with Gallery Nat
WITHDRAWN
“Inaction soon established itself as Withdrawing. It has become a legitimate way to do your bit to help. By doing nothing and taking yourself away, you can minimize your footprint and effectively buy some time. It is often seen as selfish and lazy but its effectiveness cannot be denied. People like to tell you that we all have the obligation to work for climate justice, and that fighting is always better than quitting. Withdrawing is a practical and spiritual tradition.”
Experimental Moving Image
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Part of S5 at videosoundarchvie.com
CIRCA x DAZED CLASS OF 2021
An adapted version of Margaret Gallagher is real won me a place in the Circa x Dazed Class of 2021. The work was displayed on the biggest public screens across the world, from Piccadilly Circus, Tokyo and Seoul.
Experimental Moving Image - 2:00 minutes
ULTRAVISIBLE
A photography series highlighting the encroachment of the internet's infrastructure set, through documenting 5G masts in Belfast. Set within my speculative future where the climate crisis has been pushed to a tipping point and the world is cast in a viscous shadow.
Ultraviolet Photography series
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Exhibited at THE HOLY ART Virtual Group show in London
FORCE EJECT
"The internet is on track to becoming the biggest machine on earth, overtaking the aviation industry as the largest carbon emitter. It's infrastructure has been exponentially growing since its conception and that's come with a price. The go ahead to close the last point of connection in the UK caused the G.C.D.O.(Global Climate Defence Organisation) to commission a documentary of the last remaining worker at the site. They wanted to create a film that highlighted how our choices surrounding the internet has affected the climate crisis and led us to The Reveal. Since The Reveal, when the hyperobject became visible, the world has been shrouded by the damage we have caused. The GCDO believed this personal look into someone close to the decisions made that have assisted in causing this planetary reaction should shed some light on the seriousness of the issue and create a discussion for change.
“It seems his guilt was as real as the physical placement of the internet and the burning of the sun on the back of his neck."
In this speculative cli-fi film there was a planetary reaction that caused the world to become shadowed and we woke up inside the hyperobject. A hyperobject is something so spatially large, that although you can compute it you cannot see or touch it, they question the idea of what a 'thing' really is. What if this changed?
The technician acts as the vessel for the questions that will inevitably begin to be asked. An introspective look into the part the human race has played in allowing the internet free reign to grow all over the planet and only contemplating its true existence when it could be too late. It is a personal account of something that will affect every single person.
Experimental Moving Image / Archival Documentary - 2 hours 50 Minutes
MAKE LIFE GREAT AGAIN
As seafoam takes spills from the sea and takes over the land, people can’t help but notice the similarities of its tirade to that of American politics in 2017.
Experimental Moving Image - 7:20 Minutes
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Shown at the first ever Sheffield Contemporary show
ALL MY WORK IS WORK IN PROGRESS VOL.1
A response to feeling lost in the pursuit of finding my voice. This piece contains all my work from my first year at the Royal College of Art and the large sculpture of a moving box grew over a week period until on the final day, where it was closed and the sculpture itself became the work.
‘Living Sculputre’ - Cardboard boxes, wood structure