Developing a body of work around lichens, as complex symbiotic beings, which exist beyond simple classification. Researching weather patterns from data recorded through the Met Office to inform further drawings and reveal hidden processes intrinsic to their lives. As extremely slow-growing organisms, lichens force us to consider non-human lifespans, ‘other’ timescales and invisible forces.
Cyanotypes of lichen collected from woodland. Images are created using sunlight, an essential part of the life of this organism.
Group exhibition ‘Intersection’ as part of the annual conference Science in Public, Intersecting Science. Shown at Arcade Cardiff, November 2018 - December 2018.
Ink on Japanese paper, between Perspex. A single layer of dots and lines shows the location of satellites each hour on the hour. Each of the two drawings shows the movement of satellites over a single location over 12 hours, 12 layered drawings, with the two drawings together showing the movement over a full 24 hours.
Presentation of three works within the residency space at We the Curious Science Centre, Bristol. Through workshops and written responses, visitors were asked to consider questions around data, their use of technologies that are embedded into daily life along with the data they contain and their ‘online self’.
The photograph of Drax Power Station is created using binary code; the language of computing, 1’s and 0’s. The specific code that is used in this piece is a direct translation of all of the artists’ online activity and communication during the course of a single day, drawing attention to the vast amount of digital information that is stored, recorded and available every second.
This piece was shown as part of the group exhibition Creative Reactions, Bristol and created in collaboration with Dr Emma Williams, Vice Chancellor's Fellow in Digital Innovation and Wellbeing, School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, as part of Creative Reactions Exhibition, June 2018.
Film stills from There Are Oceans on the Moon, 2018, a short film created for Ginkgo Projects for the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh. This film was selected to be part of their film library for use within this hospital during all stages of care and within other NHS Lothian facilities.
Taking all text messages sent and received between the artist and one individual over the course of one week, turning them into Morse Code, their purest and most rudimentary format.
Using both sides of the Japanese paper to create both an overlaid image and one in which neither side is completely visible by itself. Framed between two sheets of glass.
Exhibited in ‘Drawn’ exhibition in April 2017 at the Royal West of England Academy.
16 sheets of laser-cut paper, hung from the ceiling with clear fishing wire.
The sculpted paper is created from overlaid drawings made every hour in the same location for 7 hours from the constellations visible through observation of the app Google Sky Maps.
Google Sky Mapping, Pencil on Japanese Album. One drawing made every hour on the hour, for seven hours over the course of a day, with one half of a double page spread representing one day.
Drawing the constellations visible through the app Google Sky Maps, when placed in exactly the same position every hour.
Approximately 373,760 pinpricks in A0 paper. The shapes and patterns are inspired by those of the perforated skeleton of a sea mouse, found washed up on a Cornish beach. The perforations in the skeleton were reminiscent of constellations, visually linking the origin and life cycle of the carbon which forms the skeleton itself.
