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.
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.
pavane
performative drawing : Royal Naval College, London
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
https://vimeo.com/user2019510
diagram of a geometrical perspective on memory : after Turner
Film portrait of Sandycoombe Lodge, house of JMW Turner, prior to its refurbishment.
digital and 8mm film 4'01"
sound : Oskar Jones
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
35mm film dual projection 5'22"
sound : king's pavane
Commission for The Royal Parks
parade
screenprinted banners created with school outreach programme:
Twickenham carnival with Orleans House Gallery
Twickenham carnival with Orleans House Gallery
tales from behind the clouds
printed panel created with school outreach programme :
installation at Ham House
installation at Ham House
serpentine
1 of 4 paintings onto aluminium panels commissioned by The Royal Parks in situ at Kensington Gardens, London