31-10-2011
"About The Land" exhibition update
Just back from our 2 week Devon extravaganza, & relieved that everything went pretty much according to plan. On my part, sounds were gathered, layered, regurgitated & AFAIK only one person was frightened away. (We'll have to try harder next time..) Since I now have a huge vault (about 200 hours) of sound recordings captured during day & night at the sculpture garden, I'll endeavour to re-create some kind of sound collage during the frozen winter months. At least a section of this should eventually find its way here. "Watch this space" as they say.
Right now we'd all (that's Brenda, Claire, Hayley & myself) like to shout a huge THANK YOU to Rinus & Aniet @ Broomhill for their ongoing support & trailblazing enthusiasm for something a bit different in North Devon! Also thanks to all of our hundreds of visitors who popped in to see & hear what we were up to:)
23-07-2011
Exhibition dates announced
I'll be showing recent visual/photographic work, including selected images & project documentation from "Road Movie - 52nd parallel" together with a site-specific sound installation which I'm hoping will gradually evolve during the course of the week...
Check out www.broomhillart.co.uk for info on the gallery, sculpture gardens & hotel.
15-07-2011
"Road Movie - 52nd Parallel" Exhibition now online
Last summer's mystery project reveals itself (& not before time...)
Journeying across the widest point of mainland Britain: a pinhole camera odyssey.
View the exhibition
06-05-2011
It's Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day again!
And here's a direct link to my contribution to this year's event at www.pinholeday.org. While you're there, do check out some of the other fun, inspiring & perplexing images which abound!
05-08-2010
A new project begins to unfold...
... in the form of a cross-country road trip from St David's to Harwich.
More info shortly.
30-08-2009
Exhibition "Walk of Art" 11-13 September 2009
Broomhill Art, Barnstaple, North Devon See www.broomhillart.co.uk for directions, etc.
A joint show with Brenda Jet, Duncan Cameron & Claire Winfield. This is a snapshot of our ever evolving North Devon project, this time concentrating on the inland spaces around Exmoor. I'll be showing a few blurry, long exposure, pinhole photographs documenting our activities & a few other pinhole images as take my fancy. There will also be installation, painting, projections & a whole pile of notebooks and other material relating to the creative process.
10-05-2009
Another project...
On other fronts, most of my energies just lately have been directed at an interesting community project: www.bicon.org.uk The UK's national bisexual convention, for which I'm this year's organiser.
04-05-2009
Worldwide pinhole photography day is upon us again, and with it another submission. See my photo & loads more inspiring shots by pinhole camera users worldwide at www.pinholeday.org
There will also be quite a few more of my pinhole photos on display at Broomhill in North Devon in September. More details soon.
16-05-2008
Pinhole Day. This year I finally got around to making some pinhole photographs on "Worldwide Pinhole Camera Day". You can see one of my photos on the pinhole day website and, while you're there, do have a look through some of the 2000 or so other photographs, all of which were made on April 27th, this year.
If you're interested in taking part next year, all you have to do is produce a pinhole image on the last sunday of April 2009. But if you've no idea what a pinhole camera is, don't worry, now's the time to dig out old cardboard boxes, bits of film and read up on what to do. There's plenty of information on line, and a good place to start is www.pinholeday.org. Just click on the "Resources" link on the main page. Happy pinholing!
14-04-2008
Overdue update! At long last stage 1 of the collected light project has made it to the website. I'm saying "stage 1" because there's more in the pipeline. Quick link to page
04-11-2007
Collecting light... If the countryside has seemed rather dark of late, it's because I've been collecting all of the light in a particular patch. Each day during October, my light-collection apparatus has been working away, and I now have 31 individual "packets of light" neatly documented and stashed away. More info shortly...
28-02-2007
Sound samples have arrived! I've just put up a few excerpts from the soundtrack which drove the "ripple tank" installation at last summer's AOR exhibition. They're not stand-alone works, but were put together as an amusing sound collage - after all, we had to sit there listening to them on auto-repeat for several days... These are just 30 second fragments in "glorious" 64k mp3 sound, but at least they should download reasonably quickly even without a broadband connection! Quick link to page
10-02-2007
Welcome to the revamped website.
During the "Art on the Rocks" show in Devon last summer a great many of our visitors commented on the fact that we'd made a wealth of background information available, and that it offered a useful insight into the creative process. Following this I've decided to carry the idea across onto my website as part of the redesign. For most of the images here, I've added a few comments or snippets of information about the processes involved; sometimes related photos & other stuff, too. Just click on the individual images and see where it takes you...