Category Archives: work
glacier tracer
Still frames taken from performance-to-camera piece. Charcoal and pen drawing on nylon, video projection. 20 minutes 25s produced with assistance from Jemma Nissen and the support of Kathy Waghorn. This performance piece reconstructs a series of walks on Fox Glacier, … Continue reading
LAND. HERE.
GPS trace from a 6.8km walk at the confluence of the Fox and Cook Rivers, South Westland, New Zealand. This piece explores the propositional nature of mapping; the assertion that “this is there”. As a walked text piece the statement … Continue reading
sitting still drawing #1
Paired GPS drawing and digital video. 15 minute looping video These paired images offer complementary ways of thinking about stillness in the context of Fox Glacier and any attempt to represent it through mapping. One is an image of my … Continue reading
fox glacier valley
Vertically tracking video projection 7 minutes 44s Constructed from video footage recorded while walking in Fox Glacier valley, this video slowly tracks up the space in which it is shown. It forms a vertical section of the landscape, from the … Continue reading
soundwalk : impressions of the goutte d’or
As part of the experimental walking tour I undertook as part of the Art & Cartography workshop in Paris, I made a series of sound recordings of the Goutte d’Or neighbourhood. Using minimal editing, I have combined these recordings into a … Continue reading
track cutting fox glacier
Stereo Field Recording 2 minutes 15s Recorded early morning, 9 December 2010. This work approaches the physicality of Fox Glacier, through a recording of guiding staff maintaining access on to the glacier. Each day staff work to re-cut a series … Continue reading
perceptions of greenland
I have helped to develop Perceptions of Greenland, an exhibition of images by Edinburgh based artists and scientists at Tent Gallery. It aims to reveal parallels in the ways various disciplines observe and interact with this arctic environment and is … Continue reading
kitset 2.0
Laser cut model–making plywood, metal rings. First exhibited at Phylogeny Weekend, John Hope Gateway building, Royal Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh, Scotland. February 2010. Then as part of a two person show Infinite Fondness, at Wolfson College, Oxford University, England. June … Continue reading
kitset
Laser cut model-making plywood, metal rings. exhibited at line-space-material, a solo exhibition at Evolution House, Edinburgh, Scotland. August 2009. and Architecture/ECOLOGY, an academic conference at the University of Sheffield, England. November 2009. Very slender, laser cut elements, based on geometry … Continue reading
light material construction
Two modified slide projectors, coloured filters. exhibited at line-space-material, a solo exhibition at Evolution House, Edinburgh, Scotland. August 2009. Two projectors are placed in opposite corners of the space, with spatially specific inserts to compensate for “keystone” distortion, creating two … Continue reading
cloud light
Half tone image on tracing paper. 4.6m x 3.1m Exhibited at Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland. June 2009 Representing a cloud, itself an accumulation of particles, through the process of half-tone imaging creates an edgeless field where matter is rendered through … Continue reading
Piran Spregovori / Piran Speaks
Polariod images in hand-bound artists book, edition of one. 30 pages plus fold out map and key, 90 x 110mm Exhibited at Piran Town Hall, Piran, Slovenia. Now held in the collection of Mesta knjiznica Piran – Public library of … Continue reading