collaborations

breathwork

'Breathwork'
drawing and sound
curated by Lucy Sabin at Museum of Modern Art, Oxford and online throughout August 2020.

spiro : spiritum
breathe : breath
inhale : exhale

I make a whistling sound, as I exhale, it drops like a sounding line into the air surrounding me, a drawing of negative space, marking new territories.
At the start of the sound are my lips. They create a fragile threshold between within and without. But the sound, the breath, the spiro, traces backwards inside as it travels beyond. Through sinews to the small, smaller, smallest circles, curves and arches deep within the chamber of my ribcage.
Where miracles occur and life is made. Transferred. And sometimes lost.
From this place, my breath echoes outwards like ripples under the surface of my skin.
At times it is percussive, broken, sonorous, black.
Once I could not breathe. Muffled. Stifled. Too many tears. But that time has passed. Somewhere in the archive of my body the memory of this time is buried.
But now I try to allow my breath to unfold.

https://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/blog/drawing-breath

pavane

performative drawing : Royal Naval College, London
An invitation to create a response to the architectural site.

pavane ii

detail : performative drawing

rise and fall

moving image sequence for choreographer Lizzi Kew Ross, performed at Bonnie Bird Theatre, Laban, London

rise and fall

to view :
https://vimeo.com/user2019510

diagram of a geometrical perspective on memory : after Turner

single channel video
Moving image portrait of Sandycombe Lodge, house of JMW Turner, prior to its refurbishment.
digital and 8mm film 4'01"
sound : Oskar Jones

sightline 1710

http://animateprojectsarchive.org/films/by_date/2010/sightline to view
35mm film dual projection 5'22"
sound : king's pavane
Commission for The Royal Parks

serpentine

1 of 4 paintings onto aluminium panels commissioned by The Royal Parks in situ at Kensington Gardens, London

Orleans House Gallery AIR

Between 2006 - 2018 I worked intermittently as AIR (2016: use of the studio for 4 weeks making drawings and print works responding to the Octagon Room) and artist in education leading a variety of workshops both in situ and in local schools and with participants across ages and abilities.

wild woven words

Through a series of workshops including drawing, stitching and fieldwork Year 5 responded to Robert McFarlane's 'The Lost Words'. Elements were brought together to create a hanging 'tapestry' for the library.

parade

screenprinted banners created with school outreach programme:
Twickenham carnival with Orleans House Gallery

tales from behind the clouds

printed panel created with school outreach programme :
installation at Ham House