I am currently developing a collection of self playing musical instruments, powered by clock motors, oak apples hit the strings with a two second beat creating an endless rhythm. I have been producing events with other musicians improvising with to this randomly generated beat. Church organ, violin, vocals, saxaphone etc.
I am currently developing a collection of self playing musical instruments, powered by clock motors, oak apples hit the strings with a two second beat creating an endless rhythm. I have been producing events with other musicians improvising with to this randomly generated beat. Church organ, violin, vocals, saxaphone etc.
Using torch light and oak apples I have designed a number of lighting systems that use the same principle to create animation on a translucent surface, Bakelite , sand, etc.
I make cellular shadow screens, hundreds of paper pixels divide projected light into various patterns, larger screens are used for a shadow shows using colour and video projection, performers create animated imagery as they interact with the light. These are used for festivals and theatre productions
Smaller versions are used to transform TV light into an endless stream of abstract form and colour.
Studied Stourbridge College of Art 1969-70
Cardiff College of Art 1970-73, Dip AD fine Art
Exhibitions, Performance, Installation
2015 All Ears, Millenium Point, Birmingham
2015 Time and Motion, Flatpack Film Festival, Millennium Point, Birmingham
2014 If Wet, Callow End, Worcester
2014 Worcester Music Festival
2014 Custard Factory, Bham
2013 Guerilla,Gallery, Daniel Libeskind Space, Islington, London
2013 Netherton Art centre, Dudley, West Midlands
2012 Open Media RBSA Birmingham
2012 Elmfield School, Stourbridge
2012 Ring Road, Stourbridge Town Hall
2012 Capoeira Event, Sherriff Hutton, York.
2012 Junction Festival, Chapel Ash, Wolverhampton.
2011 Artspace, Brierley Hill, West Midlands
2011 Tektura, Mailbox , Birmingham
2011 Demolition Event, Birmingham Post and Mail Building
2011 Artspace Brierley Hill, Dudley
2011 Electric Shadow house, Green Futures, Glastonbury Festival
2010 Metapraxis, Chelsea Theatre, London
2010 Volte Gallery, Wolverhampton
2009 Electric Shadow house, Green Futures, Glastonbury Festival
2008 Art of Birmingham, Birmingham Art Gallery and Museum
2008 Modern Shadows, Three White Walls Gallery, Birmingham
2008 Electric Shadow house, Green Futures, Glastonbury Festival
2008 Mirour of Middelerthe, The Glasshouse Arts Centre, Stourbridge
2008 Electric shadow house, Big Chill. Art Trail, Ledbury, Hereford
2007 Shadows in full Colour, Glasshouse Theatre. Stourbridge, Stourbridge
2006 Superstition and the Moon, Leasowes College, Halesowen, West Midlands
2006 No Direction Home, Pickle Art Centre, Beijing, China
2006 Superstition and the Moon, Glasshouse Theatre, Stourbridge,West Midlands
2007 AVion, Bucharest, Romania
2007 STRP Festival, Heindhoven, Netherlands
2007 Festa del Cinema, Brancaleone, Rome, Italy
2007 Optronica, with Mikhail Karikis, National Film Theatre, London
2005 Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2004 IN and Out, Capital Normal University, Beijing
2000 Making Waves, with Peter Keene, Museum of Electricity, Lisbon, Portugal
1999 Art Kraft, Paris
1999 Festival des Maquine i Robots, Barcelona
1990 Living Gallery, Stourbridge
Publications
2011 Sunday Times Magazine
2005 Light Art from Artificial Light, ZKM
Awards
Arts Council England 2015
Arts Council England 2013
Arts Council England 2009
Arts Council England 2006