‘dividing line 2012’
Animated image / DVD

‘sandset i & ii’
Giclee prints, aluminium mounted, 18″ x 12″

‘A beautiful exhibition, clean pure and spare’ …

‘inner glow i & ii’
Giclee prints, block mounted
30″ x 20″

‘heavy weather i, ii, iii, iv’
Giclee prints, aluminium mounted, 18″ x 12″

‘Love the darkness’….

‘another world i, ii & iii’
Floating acrylic Giclee prints, framed 16″ x 16″

‘through the’, ‘living space’
Giclee prints, aluminium mounted 30″ x 20″

‘leaf light i’
Floating acrylic Giclee print, framed 30″ x 20″

‘Excellent inspiring work.  Great food for thought’….

‘into the trees i & ii’
Giclee prints, aluminium mounted
40″ x 26″

‘we’ve landed’, ‘point of view’
Giclee prints, aluminium mounted
26″ x 20″

‘Pushing a new way to perceive landscape’

‘sea farm’
Projected Lightjet FujiClear print

‘Impressive, original and atmospheric’….

‘city rising i’, ‘lakeland light’, ‘up in the air’
Giclee prints, aluminium mounted, 40″ x 26″

‘A moving show’….      ’Flawlessly executed’….

‘What you see is what you see‘ – a solo exhibition of ‘quiet photography’ for the Bristol Photography Festival curated by Louise Copping.

Thursday 17th May to Sunday 27th May 2012

‘What you see is what you see‘ is a solo exhibition of my ‘quiet photography’ for the Bristol Photography Festival curated by Louise Copping.

The show at the Motorcade/FlashParade gallery will run from Thursday 17th May to Sunday 27th May (12-6pm) open on Thursday through to Sunday both weeks.

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For more information: Number 40 @Southbank Arts Trail

Following the weeks residency I created two groups of work to be shown at the farm throughout June:

‘WOOD WORKINGS’
A constant theme of my work is the human interaction with landscape.  Whilst walking the woodlands that surround Little Dodnash Farm I became increasingly in awe of the trees, and fascinated by the process through which they are managed.  ‘Wood Workings’ documents the human relationship with the woodlands, and ultimately reflects on how; through domestic occupation and husbandry we leave a transitory mark on this environment.

See Gallery – Wood Workings for images from the collection.

’5 WORDS – SHADOWS ON A RURAL IDYLL’

Responding to the question – ‘give me 5 words that describe your feelings about living in a Rural Idyll’, the owner of Little Dodnash farm replied:

Solitude, Panic, Pleasure, Hardwork and Comfort.

’5 Words – shadows on a rural idyll’ uses these words as inspiration for a series of shadow based photo-ascetates constructed and photographed   at the farm during the residency in March. Through the use of Real-time graphical programming the photographs have subsequently been transformed into five animations (one for each word) and shown as a site-specific installation in the farms wood cutting yard.

It should be noted that although the inspiration for the piece sprang from the owner’s feelings about living in a rural idyll, its creation and ultimate presentation are based on my own responses to spending time at Little Dodnash Farm.  My main aim was to produce a piece that creates unity and provides equal weight to all five words, so giving us an insight into reality behind living in a Rural Idyll.

I’m in an upstairs Studio – number M3, so please come along and say hello.  I’ll have some  new work as well the odd bargain for sale.

Opening times:
Friday 19th November: 6pm – 9pm (party continues/drinks served till late)

Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st: 11am – 6pm

Free Entry, Food available throughout the event from Katie & Kim’s Kitchen. Teas and coffees from Daisy Rollo of CoffeeArabica available Saturday and Sunday.

After years of thinking about it, wondering if I can afford or even deserve it I’ve just got the keys for a studio.  It’s in the BV Studios which is a brand new development of purpose-built artists’ studios in Philip Street, Bedminster, Bristol.  I have a portion of one of the mezzanine studios (pictured here), I just need to get some shelving, furniture and all my boxes of frames in and I’m sorted.  I’m really excited about this and hope it’ll give my practice an injection of energy it needs and help me move my career on to another level.

Just a quick update – I’m really enjoying being in the space, I’ve got shelves and furniture, so it’s down to work now!!

Having been involved in organising the South Bank Arts Trail for five years, I have been looking for a ways to develop new community arts based events.  The big difference being that I’d like to retain more creative control, be funded to do it and be able to pay artists to be involved. Jess Wright was in a similar situation, having run the South Bristol Business Awards for two years she was looking for a new challenge.  We share the same aims but come from different backgrounds:art and business. Seven months ago Jess and I started working on a new project called illuminate. Illuminate aims to produce arts-based events that promote and reflect both the creativity and rich history of South Bristol. Key elements of illuminate projects will be the use of disused properties to show art/moving image work, to reflect the community and history they are set in and to involve key creative organisations in the city of Bristol.

illuminates long-term aim is to produce a festive Christmas event that would transform multiple disused shops on North/East St by using projected films/light/artists installations. We will be piloting the illuminate concept at the end of March with Spring Forward, an event partnered with the Knowle West Media Centre and Picture This:

The weekend of March 27 to 29 will see two empty shops – numbers 26 and 28 in Bedminster’s North Street  – playing host to illuminate’s first event ‘Spring Forward’. Number 26 will feature a series of projected films made by Bristol based artists alongside an exhibition in the empty property (no.28) next door. The exhibition celebrates the past and present of Bedminster’s retail history.

For more information see the illuminate web site