Time-based works compressed into single images. Super-long exposures that portray complete films and video works as static photographs. Experimenting with techniques to extend and compress time the process entails recording a cumulation of all the frames within a film overlaid on top of one another. The resulting work reveals ghostly retinal after-images, static visual memories of each film.
2020
Long View Compression
Everything Is Compression
I Will Become Compression
Spores Compression
Journal Compression
Tools Compression
Correspondence involves collecting, cataloguing, archiving and research in order to rephotograph British tourist postcards from the late 1960s onwards. The postcard sender's message is adopted as the title for each piece, everyday words and memories that find a life beyond that of their original propriety. The act of reworking these images and applying a strangers words, is a conversation (a correspondence) with the past.
2007- present
Installation at The CASS Bank Space Gallery, London Metropolitan University, 2016
Adhering to formal and intellectual elements from Romantic landscape painting these photographs depict a journey through an alternate English landscape. Digitally composited from several exposures they present idealised views similar to computer generated architectural visuals, often with features repeated such as the sky used in several images.
The terrain featured is dominated by man-made structures whilst natural features have been manipulated to suit human needs. In many ways these are contrived places; familiar yet somehow different, somewhere but at the same time nowhere.
Photographic prints, Artist's book, Postcards, 2011
Installation at The Catlin Art Prize 5th Anniversary Exhibition, The Tramshed, Shoreditch, London, 2011
A collection of photographs manipulated to appear uncannily blue and flawless exploiting a familiar trope that implies a favourable future promoting hope and positive thinking. However, the printed images are fragile and purposely fade when subjected to prolonged sunlight.
Selected works were developed for display outside Police stations in East London working with the London Metropolitan Police Safer Neighbourhoods Team.
2012
Optimism Revisited CV8524
Optimism Revisited JH3TH11
Optimism Revisited UPT36060
Optimism Revisited VET2940
Optimism Revisited 52 Skies
Photo installation at Bow Road Police Station, London, 2012
Depictions of a semi-detached house brought together to construct an archive of components - found images, large format photographs, digitally manipulated images, publications and audio work.
Utilitarian domestic housing from this period is an archetype of standardisation and suburban uniformity. However, the prosaic ordinariness of these houses belies the unique individual dramas that play out within.
Hornby Railways considered that this particular building in Margate epitomised life in towns and cities in the UK during the late 20th century and chose this individual house on which to base their 'R.275 Modern House' model kit.
Each work in the series is given a reference number forming a visual archive, a 'kit of parts' with which to describe contemporary suburban life.
2012