ARCHIVE SITE - NEW SITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION

[ LANDSCAPES IN BETWEEN ]

meshes of cultural & ecological transition & recovery: landscapes, ecology, communities, art, tangible & intangible heritage

DISPLACEMENT-EXTRACTION

Knowle West Media Centre, Bristol, 2008

QUANTOCK DREAMING

Creative Slow Residency, Quantock Hills, Somerset (Eng), 2007-8

collaboration with poet, Ralph Hoyte

GREEN RIBBONS Network

Sheffield (Eng) 2009-10

Creativity Strategy for

Urban Regeneration

[A NOVA Creative Lab project]

THE BOGLE Experience (Silver Path)

Site-Specific Installation & Performance

Grizedale Forest & Sculpture Trail, Cumbria (Eng), 2004

ELEVENMINUTES Urban Sculpture Trail

Bristol, 2006

(a NOVA Creative Lab project)

DARWIN 200 Geo-Garden

Competition Runner-Up Entry

Shrewsbury (Eng), 2008

[a NOVA Creative Lab project]

SOTE - Competition

Lincolnshire Coast (Eng), 2011

[a NOVA Creative Lab project]

Competition selection

LOVELY WEATHER

Slow Residency/ Deep Mapping (Climate Change, Community & Art)

Donegal, Ireland 2010-11

CONFLUENCE Project

Ecology, Technology, Community, Schools

UNESCO North Devon Biosphere Reserve, 2011-12. Collaboration

"Our knowledge of nature and how it works is based on observations. What if we can't see everything? What might we be missing out on? There could be a 'hidden world' out there"

James Wells, CERN, on the search for the Higgs bosun

SALT-Land-ings

Creative Research

Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall, 2012

& related fieldwork in France & Portugal, 2022-4 more details soon

FLUID FORESTS, an ecological symphony, experimental performance STROUD FILM FESTIVAL, 2024

COMPLETION OF 'HABITAT-TREASURE HOUSE Land Art Commission, Portugal

WATERSHED Exhibition group show, MAC Birmingham (collaboration with Nikki Sheth)

UNLIT PATH EXHIBITION group show; Hardwick Gallery (Terrains Vagues & Slow Flows)

WILD COA SYMPHONY Portugal; eco-social residency, featured project, ELSP

ENDANGERED LANDSCAPES Artist Residency begins; Rewilding Portugal & ELSP

SARGASSO SISTERS Short Eco-Poetic Film selected for FIIN 2021 Film Festival, Portugal

INSIDE THE OUTSIDE Online Curated Photography Gallery (Lethality and Vulnerability)

ARTEFACT PROJECTS: short video-sonic works, Ten Acres of Sound festival Birmingham

ARTICLE IN KONESH SPACE JOURNAL (Creative reflections on Côa Valley, Portugal))

CHAPTERS IN HERITAGE FUTURES BOOK (e-pub, free) Lead Artist writings

NATIONAL TRUST Artist Residency Exhibition, Orford Ness (Sensitive Chaos)

SACRED WAYS - SACRED WATERS

Geopoetic sound-work/intermedia residency at Binaural-Nodar, Portugal, 2013

Rural Arts

[ CO-CREATIVE COLLECTIVES ]

[ NOVA Creative Lab ]

new perspectives, recombinations, collaborations, liminal settings & sonic alchemies

[ DEISEAL ]

Ireland - ancient echoes : new vibes

[ OUT OF PLACE ]

layerings, creative mappings, archives, delvings, fossickings

PEAT-Land-ings

Creative Research, in progress

more details soon

My interests lie in activating fresh dialogues, insights and possibilities - through extended involvements with places, landscape processes and human activities, especially in the contexts of current ecological and social challenges and pressures. I am drawn to the liminal and atmospheric watery settings of rivers, lakes, coasts; the shared ecological 'commons'; and to edgelands, wastelands, abandoned sites - all places that can spark inspirations for future paths. My projects prompt conversations between insider (local) and outsider (itinerant) perspectives and weave together past, present and future imaginations. I describe my creative approach as both ‘geopoetic’ and 'deep mapping'.

With a background in eco/geo-sciences and landscape studies, my creative practice has a hybrid quality, braiding art and science approaches. Concepts of flow and deep-time are central, as is an interest in observing the world at different, fractal, scales. For me, spirit-of-place is linked to cross-cultural and intergenerational exchange - dynamic streams of knowledge, stories, memories, metaphors, dreams. Research and production methods are based on extensive on-the-ground sensing, absorbing and then assembling video-sonic content, sculptural materials, archives, and other findings. Resulting site-specific works can include film-poems and installation spaces, usually developed during artist residencies. I have collaborated with many academic research projects, introducing creative experiments, provocations and alternative documentary processes.

Some collaborations are carried out in the context of the NOVA Creative Lab

LIMBO LANDSCAPE LAB 1

CLAY-Land-ing

Creative Research Residency & installation

Wheal Martyn Museum, Cornwall, 2018

HERITAGE FUTURES

Lead Artist - Senior Creative Fellow

International, 2015-2019

Creative research, documentation, residencies

LIMBO LANDSCAPE LAB 2

SENSITIVE CHAOS, Orford Ness

Artist residency & installation works

National Trust & Heritage Futures, 2019

RIVER SHANNON FLEETS

Creative Research, Public Art Sculptural Works, Limerick County (Ire), 2010  (a Deiseal project)

COLORADO RIVER CONJECTURES

Exploratory Creative-Research Residency

& video works, Grand Canyon, USA, 2011

[ WATER DREAMINGS ]

flows, liminality & eco-cultural creative explorations

SUBMERGED (Drowned Lands): A Long View

Collaborative research for installation works

in the Somerset Levels, England

SABRINA DREAMING (Severn Estuary Tidelands)

Creative-Research Artist Residency, with CCRI,

University of Gloucestershire (Eng), 2014-16

Ten Acres of Sound

Participation in the 'Ten Acres Of Sound' Festival, Birmingham in 2020. 'Also Listening With My Eyes' installation (based on Elan Valley artist residency)

https://vimeo.com/378283117

https://vimeo.com/362047894

Detail from print-on-fabric installation work - Quantock Dreaming, 2008

HERE COMMONS EVERYBODY

Working with multiple partners & locations. Pilot project co-funded by CCRI & Arts Council England. Themes of culture, ecology, place attachment & land equity.

LONG EXPOSURE: ELAN VALLEY, WALES

Artist-residency hosted by the Elan Links heritage programme. Four season investigations of land, water, farming, ecology, dams, pipelines & more.

COA VALLEY REWILDING

Artist-residency hosted by Rewilding Portugal & the Endangered Landscapes Programme. Investigations in preparation for a video-sonic work titled 'Wild Coa Symphony'.

"‘To navigate against the current, these rare qualities are needed: a spirit of adventure, courage, perseverance and passion’

   Nise da Silveira

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