1. VHS Film Tests. October 2025 –
Stills from series of film collages made using degrading home VHS recordings. The works represent an initial attempt to develop a language of collage and new abstract juxtapositions within the research using archival fragments.
2. Geodomes
Geodome projects and research, initiated in 2015 via a collaborative proposal to activate and connect unused land between Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima) and the adjacent City Library; using a multi-functional geodesic community hub/greenhouse/education and residency space. Images: Concept drawing xite architecture, single channel geodome film exhibited at MAW21, Intermedia performance(Vancouver 1970),2v Hub and strut geodome made from recycled painting stretchers (2015 – 2021).
3. Models
A series of architectural models made in response to different spatial contexts. The projects were directly informed by the geodome research and repositioned the role of the model within the building/creative process. Images: One day residency with Steelworks Project Space at Tanfield Railway, exhibition at 36 Lime Street Gallery, Newcastle and installation on the top floor of Dundas House, Middlesbrough.
4. Installations
A series of installations, conceived initially as ‘scaled up models’ made in response to galleries, project spaces and disused commercial units. In 2022 a screen printed abstract environment/stage set and series of commissioned sound performances, were used to activate a shared curatorial space in Glasgow’s Southside.
5. Print Collaborations
A series of print collaborations which will inform artists’ books made and shared through the research. Images: Risograph exhibition publication published by A-M-G5 (2022), screenprint folio made in collaboration with M.A.R.S (2022), commercial postcard/digital collage made as part of In-Place (2022- ) and Transmissions a forthcoming folio published by Hard Copy, Newcastle (2025).
6. Contextual Images:
Schwitters’ Merz Barn Wall (Hatton Gallery) and it’s original location, The Merz Barn at Elterwater.
Schwitters’ Hanover Merzbau (1933), and Moby Dick, an installation by Michael Beutler at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2015).
