Problems in space: Previous Works

Lightening Tower 1013

Lightening Tower, River Piave, Italy. June 1013

Photograph by Christiano Menchini

20sec trailer for 'TechNoir' (8min) , River Piave, Italy. June 1013

Das Wilde

A collaboration between myself and Katharina Lackner for The Smallest Gallery in Graz, Austria.

The Smallest Gallery consists of a window 2m long by 1.4m high by 0.4m deep. We filled it with smoke and feathers, creating

an intermittent, automated choreography of movement, light and fog. Sometimes the smoke would creep out of the sides of the window and intermittently feathers

brushed against the glass.

Mixed media

The Smallest Gallery, Graz, Austria

August 2012

Sculptural Investigation Using Bouncy Balls

An ongoing project investigating space using bouncy balls and bouncy balls using space. Further forays into interaction. Containment in open and closed systems. Failure, success, unpredicta

ble movement.

Looking for a way to strip my practice down to a simple focal point, I stumbled upon a bouncy ball and thought that I had found the answer. When I attached that first bb to a balloon I knew I was onto something.

I spent two months at the Salzamt in Linz, discovering the types of ways I could present bouncy balls to an audience. I made some machines, found out some special types of bounces, started to develop obstacles to interrupt the path of the balls, made a model of the room and did a lot of bouncing. The project was developed further for an exhibition at bb15 in June 2012.

Work continues. I am currently developing a bouncy ball tragedy for film, working on some furniture and developing further apparatus to come between the audience and the bouncy ball. The work is documented through a series of inter-related video clips.

Please Wait

'Please Wait' was an interactive sculptural installation with buttons and switches, involving an element of performance. Each operation explored a different permutation of give and take

between artist and

audience.

I built two rooms from wood and paper within the two first floor rooms of the house I was staying in. Viewers of the work were invited to walk around the rooms, pressing the buttons that they found on the walls. I was waiting behind the walls to perform operations when the buttons were pressed. This took some time because I had to navigate my way there first. It got more complicated when more than one person was viewing the work at once.

The work came complete with a User Manual, printed in either Turkish or English, which contained drawings that related to the buttons in the show.

Mixed media

Halka Art Project, Istanbul, Turkey

March 2012

With thanks to Hande Başargün and Samuel Burkhardt

Me the gang

A sculptural investigation into the possibilities of the sculptural object and its position in space. With expressive tones.

'Me the gang' was a collection of work assembled during my time at the Chelsea School of Art and Design in London. Starting out, I had intended to make films, but over a six month period I found myself making more and more sculptures, derived from experiments, accidents, ideas about making films and chance discoveries. For the final show the best works were assembled into a kind of farcical shop display.

This work also functions as a map of future directions for work to be made.

Mixed media

Chelsea School of Art and Design, London

July 2011

2 8 4

Sculpture as spatial song / dance. Variations in material, position and placement.

My attempt at abstract sculptural minimalism. I took the cube, the plinth and three materials - steel, mdf and foam - and developed an aesthetic arrangement based on the possible ways of arranging these objects and materials together in a condensed space, working with the idea that sculpture should work like a spatial song, which the movement of the viewer activates.

Steel, mdf, green mdf, high density foamboard, water, food colouring, plaster, household paint

Triangle Space, London

May 2011

Activation Disc

Sculpture as performance aid, body as sculptural plinth.

I taped two bowls together using parcel tape and discovered that the resultant object was good for posing with. I developed a string of these poses, mainly whilst trying to entertain/impress people within reach.

Plastic bowls, coloured tape, parcel tape, metal offcut, rubber

Chelsea School of Art and Design, London
March 2011

Leg (1-4)/4

A stationary, fast, temporary sculpture.

Leg (1-4)/4 combines my love of maths with an assemblage of found objects and some running. The idea was that the leg formed one quarter of a semi-existent table, which would slowly take shape as the leg was moved from corner to corner, via a frantic dash around the building the sculpture was situated in when no-one was looking.

Plastic bottle tops, found wood, nail

Fuck Me Twice, Chelsea School of Art and Design, London
February 2011

Kitten Face Presents: Transform!

An exhibition at The Old Sweet Shop, a shop for arts and crafts, in Sheffield. Exploration of adding value in unconventional ways to otherwise ordinary objects.

Over six months I developed a product range for display in the shop. Each item was fairly typical for a shop of this kind, except that they were generally plain to look at and adorned in other ways. For example, the cup below (which was one of four) was bought from a department store in town and transported to the gallery via the river Sheaf, in a child's arm band (see video). The paper plant shown started out as a real plant, which I papier-mached, suffocating the plant. I then cut the plant out via the underside of each leaf.

Mixed media installation

The Old Sweet Shop, Sheffield
June 2010

Up the River

Video to accompany 'Signet-ature cups' from 'Kitten Face presents: Transform!', showing the journey from their place of purchase to their place in the show.

from Kitten Face Presents: Transform!

River Sheaf, Sheffield
May 2010

Also on show were a series of pictures drawn on greetings cards given to me over the last few years, which were of emotional significance to me. There was a book that didn't exist yet - you could speak into it and place an order for the actual book, which would only come into being if enough people wanted a copy. Overseeing the work was KittenFace, my metaphysical superhero splodge

brand shape, who features in adventures such as, '

KittenFace explodes the arms race', 'KittenFace faces up to the facts', 'KittenFace and the quest for the holy tail', 'KittenFace7', 'KittenFace in : Sveltwalk', 'KittenFace clarifies the basics', 'Touching base with Kitten Face: Health, Tsunamis, Magenta', 'Dance Regimen: Shape up with Kitten Face', 'Understanding economics with KittenFace'.

Doorway (and wall)

Sketch-like sculpture made for Collaboration No.2 at Unit 3b. The work functioned to divide the space without taking up much room. Users reported finding it difficult not to walk through the 'door'. The collaboration itself proved to be an interesting exercise in group dynamics.