Supported by Watershed/Mayk Winter Residency Programme and Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol.

Project page at Pervasive Media Sudio

2020

Work In Progress

Other Animals is a series of public interventions which uses soft robotic sculptures to raise awareness of local ecological issues and the wider climate crisis.

This project was started in January 2020 as part of the Watershed/MAYK Winter Residency program and is currently at the research and development stage.

I’m interested in building synthetic orgainsms which can stimulate an emotional response in encounters with an audience. I want to emphasise a sense of connection to the environment, not to think of nature as something separate from, but rather contingent with our human experience as living creatures and explore the fragility of the systems which support life. The sculptures will be positioned in public places in the city centre, they will have embedded capacity for human interaction and will also be responsive to environmental stimuli.

Supported by British Council Indonesia

2018

In collaboration with WAFT-Lab and Halaman Garage

A 1990 Mitsubishi Delica converted into a social vehicle for touring workshops, performances and skill shares. The truck featured custom sound, lighting, storage and exhibition systems as well as a drift-trike built from recycled parts.

Constructed on residency in Surabaya, Java, Indonesia.

Commissioned by The Substation, Melbourne. Supported by Cryptic

Photography: Jamie Dale

2017

A 6-panel collage mural commission for The Substation, Melbourne.

Psychic Dirt explores psychedelic tropes, mystical imagery and the paranoid undercurrents of modern life, taking inspiration from a range of sources including astronomy, medical imagery, landscape photography, nuclear research and protest posters.

Commissioned by Cryptic, Portal was made possible with the generous robotics support of bots.co.uk.

Portal was presented as part of Festival 2018, the cultural programme of the Glasgow 2018 European Championships.

2018

Opened in 1963, during the age of the motorway and in the wake of the Bruce Report, the Clyde Tunnel is a monolithic landmark in Glasgow’s infrastructure and 20th Century history. Two parallel bores hewn from the hard bedrock of the river under compressed, dangerous conditions traverse a 762 meter course of cast iron and shuttered concrete that now forms the site for Portal.

Tunnels occupy a mysterious area of the imagination. Their architecture – confined, claustrophobic, linear, underground, reverberant – evokes psychological interpretation as inhuman and transient space, but also as metaphor: from the birth canal to the light, secret passages and string theory. These are the archetypal other-worlds that recur throughout mythology and science-fiction, we can visit them in Dante’s Inferno and the corridors of H.R. Giger and sometimes even within the fabric of the city itself.

Portal explores this interzone and it’s synthetic inhabitants, spectral creatures evolved to live in the stomach of the underpass.

Fire Sculptures created for Remembering Together Na h-Eilean Siar 2024. Performed on Beaches in Barra, Benbecula and Lewis.

Commissioned by Macaualy College and greenspace Scotland.

More info on the project

Animatronic armature, bones, bin bags, electronics. Dimensions varible.

Photo Credits:

Surge Festival: Brian Hartley
Green Man: twocatsintheyardphotography

Encounters with an animatronic tulpa born into late capitalism. How does it relate to the world around, and the humans it shares space with?

Commissioned as part of Four Nations Bursary Programme for new outdoor work, supported by Surge, Glasgow.