Norwich based artist working with sound, video and painting
My work draws mainly from landscape; often whilst walking - taking photographs, short videos and recording sound. Based in Norfolk the wide open spaces of the marsh and coastline influence the work. I like to use sound, layered and remixed to re-imagine a fictional place and sense of time.
26 July 2024
Ear of the Sea - installation and activities on the beach at Holme Dunes Nature Reserve with Jane Scobie, kathryn Parsons, Heidi McEvoy-Swift, Caroline Chouler-Tissier. 5 artists from the GroundWork Gallery residency 2023, we came together in response to the proposal that a Wash barrage and container port be built across The Wash between Hunstanton and Wainfleet.
Seawall: sounding The Wash
A tour of The Wash, from Skegness to Snettisham in 14 postcards highlighting the unique and dynamic wilderness coastline of sand dunes, saltmarsh and mudflats.
Gibraltar Point nature reserve looking across the foreshore towards the Norfolk coast. Holkham pinewoods hover on the horizon. Redshank and curlew call from the saltmarsh, Dark-bellied Brent geese fly in, and Skylarks sing from above. I have combined sound recordings from this spot at Gibraltar Point with recordings of curlew and Brent geese in Norfolk.
Approaching high tide at Snettisham, early September, view looking out over the Wash towards Boston. Sounds of distant curlew and oystercatchers. Recording on the shingle beach, the microphones are low to the ground, as it is quite breezy - a bit too close to the high tideline and the sound of the sea lapping at the shore. At high tide the mudflats are submerged and the waders fly low over the beach to the brackish lagoon to roost. I move the microphones to Sanctuary hide to record the peeping of thousands of oystercatchers. It is now dark and a red full moon is rising, time to walk back to the carpark. On the path along the shingle ridge you can just make out the shadows of scrubby vegetation on the beach. The waders are still flying in, a flutey rush of air and wing - never switch off your recorder until back at the car! Maybe not the best recordings but the experience was magical.
31 to o7 May 2024
Rain showing with Dead Straight Drive Thru for Groundwork Gallery on tour, West Bay Dorset.
02 September to 16 December 2023
Dead Straight Drive Thru
Video montage created during the Extraction3 residency for The Ground Beneath Our Feet exhibition, GroundWork Gallery, King's Lynn.
I researched the nature of chalk and its relationship to cement, construction and the abstraction of groundwater. The Main Chalk aquifer runs from East Yorkshire, through Lincolnshire and Norfolk, the Thames Basin and to Dorset. I recorded short videos, images and sounds from the agricultural fenland of Lincolnshire, Norfolk chalk rivers and roadside landscapes.
Dead Straight Drive Thru is a 'road trip' from the Lincolnshire Fens to the chalk riverside landscapes of Norfolk, ends at a dry chalk river bed in a warming climate. Locations for recording include the roadside along the A16 from Boston to the A17 junction, the Glaven and Blackwater chalk rivers/streams, Barranc de Malafi, Albufera de Valencia. Sounds recorded; larks at Salthouse marshes, a main drain outfall and water percolating chalk pebbles.
A still from Dead Straight Drive Thru, video with sound.
31 August to 05 September 2022
PondScape at Raveningham Sculpture Trail
Audio clip of 'PondScape' - audio installation at Raveningham Sculpture Trail 2022. A compilation of sounds recorded in and by ponds at Raveningham, Cley Marshes, my own small garden pond in Norwich and other locations. Sounds include moorhen, heron, cormorants, little grebe, greylag goose, frogs and hornwort producing oxygen bubbles. The recording of frogs and toads is by David Mellor, original recordings on the Radio Aporee soundmap at aporee.org.
21 to 31 October 2021
Chalk*Clay*Sand*Salt - Natural Fictions_Far Ings
Showing the video montage 'Natural Fictions_Far Ings: views from the Humber estuary ..from chalk ..to cement'. At Cromer Community Centre organised by Cromer Artspace
A still from 'Natural Fictions_Far Ings: views from the Humber estuary ... from chalk ... to cement'.
Natural Fictions_Far Ings is a reimagined journey along the Humber estuary viewed through the industrial heritage of clay, chalk and cement. We depart from the docks at Hull layered with the landscapes of Chowder Ness and Far Ings; chalk beach, agricultural field, reedbed, saltmarsh and mudflat. Pass Spurn Point and Immingham, and return to Barton-on-Humber and the Waters’ Edge Country Park.
Natural Fictions is an ongoing collection of short videos and sound recordings reimagined as fictional scenarios of landscape, flora and fauna. An attempt to capture the processes of natural and anthropogenic change, progress, decay and loss in the environment.
Still from FastForward. View on Vimeo
2020 to 2021
Fastforward is a composition of video & sounds from one garden bumblebee. Recorded in the garden during lockdown. Microphones were attached close to two courgette flowers. The sound and video is layered at different speeds.
02 & 03 May 2020
International Dawn Chorus Day is being celebrated this weekend following sunrise across the globe.
Broadcasting live from Norwich at 5am to 6am, Sat & Sun, and tuning in to other soundcamps around the world - part of Wildlife Sound Recording Society soundmap with Reveil 2020 at soundtent.org
11 Feb 2020
Art and Place
Showing Natural Fictions _ Breydon Water at St Georges Theatre, Great Yarmouth.
A still from Natural Fictions _ Breydon Water
11 Oct 2019
Anderbyman (psychedelic) will be showing tonight at Artertons on the High Street in King's Lynn.
Clip from Anderbyman (psychedelic) - recomposed cameraphone footage (phone footage taken by Julea Butt whilst on a walk at Anderby Creek, Lincolnshire).
Sept to Oct 2019
Submarine
an immersive sound installation below deck on the Lydia Eva steam drifter in Great Yarmouth - until Sat 18th October - check open times at above (not Tues and note the Lydia Eva will be out at sea on Sunday 13th Oct)
Part of the Yarmonics sonic arts festival on Sat 21st September.
2018
Getting Away!
Showing Route110/Walls of Jericho at Artspace1, Bermondsey, London
June 2018
FLIGHT
Norfolk Open Studios at 27A Muspole Street, Norwich
Film installation with painting and sound - on the theme of flight.
March to May 2018
Inheritance: Norwich Castle Museum
Showing 'The Messenger' as part of the East Anglian Art Fund exhibition
Still from The Messenger, video, 4:43.
Norwich based artist working with sound, video and painting
Born in Sheffield (1965), moved to Norwich in 1990 to work as a researcher in biophysics at UEA. After working in The Netherlands, returned to Norwich in 1997 and enrolled on the Foundation course at the Norwich School of Art and Design (now NUA), graduating in BA Fine Art Painting in 2001.
Exhibitions and events..
2023
GroundWork Gallery, King's Lynn - The Ground Beneath Our Feet, showing Dead Straight Drive Thru.
2022
Pondscape at Raveningham Sculpture Trail.
2021
-Chalk*Sand*Clay*Salt*, Cromer Artspace, group exhibition showing Natural Fictions_ Far Ings.
2020
- International Dawn Chorus Day 02&03 May live broadcast from my garden.
Soundmap hosted by the Wildlife Sound Recording Society and Soundcamp.
- Art and Place: Natural Fictions - Breydon Water at St Georges Theatre, Great Yarmouth.
2019
- 11th Hour Festival: Anderbyman (Psychedlic) at Artertons on the High Street, King's Lynn.
- Yarmonics: Submarine on board the Lydia Eva in Great Yarmouth.
- At the End of Lines: at Ex Marks the Spot, Great Yarmouth.
- Sound recording of migrating pink footed geese used as part of the sound for The Journey,
Norfolk & Norwich Festival launch.
- Water Rising: Making art in storm and calm at GroundWork Gallery, King's Lynn.
2018
- Getting Away! at Arthouse1 Bermondsey.
- Inheritence: at Norwich Castle Open Art Show organized by East Anglia Art Fund.
2017
- APT Creekside Open, Selected by Alison Wilding. Walls of Jericho video awarded 2nd prize.
2016
- Plenty of Time to Lose Your Balance: at NUNNS YARD, Norwich.
- OUTPOST Members’ Show, Selected by Lynda Morris & Chris Rawcliffe.
- PING: at The Minories, Colchester, Selected by Jeffrey Dennis.
2006
- Off: at the former Eastern Electricity building, Norwich.
- WYSIWYG: Galeria Fundacji F.A.I.T. Kraków, Poland
