17 February 2019
21 October 2018
Caban 35
Caban 35
single channel
colour
6 minutes, 29 seconds
Caban 35 was made during a residency at Penlan, Cenarth, Wales, 2018. Available at:
Caban Thirty Five, a tape slide piece accompanies this film.
6 October 2018
30 August 2018
25 February 2018
Light of The World
Sea The Stars (Proxigean Tide) 2010
processed seaweed
dimensions variable
Oscillator: https://vimeo.com/123294456
Samphire Hoe: https://vimeo.com/247987647
At The Airport: https://vimeo.com/254546763
Assembly: https://vimeo.com/257673786
Falling Through The Light: One Year Incidental: https://vimeo.com/61405845
Before American Night, 2014
collage, tape
dimensions variable
Thrush Anvil, 2017, book, dimensions variable
Inventory of Light of The World
Standard lamp, flexible
Spool of single core flex
Bayonet light fitting and car headlamp bulb
Sea hydroid
Section of bicycle inner tube
Car tyre strip
Sculpture with glitter and cable tie
Candle light bulb
Two plastic bottles
Insulated copper wire
Large spotlight bulb
Round light fitting
Bar of soap, remnant
Oyster shell half
Rusted metal fragment
TOTAL coin
Sea sponge
Oyster shell half
Wood with borealis excavation
Fluorescent bulb and cable ties
Rock with algae
LED bulb
Energy efficient bulb
Light fitting, dowel, fuse wire
Ikea bulb and single core flex
Item of plastic
Bramber boat trailer plate
Whale rib, copper sulphate, cable tie
Withy, rubber plant leaf, plaster, acrylic
Light cover
Subway plastic bag
Cantilever bench light
Flamingo Park token
Cuttle bone section
Light of the World: research images
4 February 2018
Beyoncé Lido
Beyoncé
2018
Stirling board, document file, linoleum, collage
assemblage
95x120x1cm
Lido
2018
Digital photograph
42x59.4cm
Lido II
2018
Inflatable, Xerographic prints, slide, parking ticket, aggregate bag
Dimensions variable
The Mirror of Tenerife
2018
Polyester
tee-shirt, monofilament line, cotton thread
90x60x12 cm
WynterSeaJourney
2018
Document file, Xerographic print, slide, paperclip
35x46cm
5 November 2017
KIM
Kim
2017
marble, xerographic print, rock with algae and concretion
29.5x23x1 cm
From the exhibition, Stollen (All I Want For Christmas), Test Space Spike Island, Bristol, UK
18 August 2017
DriftAdrift
DriftAdrift, Relaxed
2017
Tyre strips (flotsam, jetsam, lagan), sofa
Dimensions variable
2 July 2017
William Dyce, Pegwell Bay updated.
The Dyce family is fully clothed. The women shawled and heavy skirted, gather
souvenirs and shells from the beach at low tide. Beyond them, the lowish chalk cliffs stand
over the receded tide, and above the whole scene, the distant tail of Donati's comet. William Dyce's painting of Pegwell Bay[i]
depicts an activity unchanged, and the bay itself, with its cliffs and strata, sweeps
to the west towards Sandwich and the Stour Estuary. Little moved over time, a site of ancient and
recent disembarkation. Hoverlloyd (later
Hoverspeed) operated cross channel services from Ramsgate to Calais up until
1982; the modern archaeologist or dog walker can explore the remains of the
hoverport. White markings are still
visible where the ramps enter the bay, and in the delineated parking zones partially
covered in scrub. The SR.N4 hovercraft, cossetted
in a great heavy skirt like the ladies in Dyce's painting, was powered by four
Bristol Proteus engines, one of which is preserved at Bristol M Shed museum. These powerful but thirsty engines propelled
the craft forward and also inflated the large black skirt that acts as a cushion
between hull and water and land.
I slipped into the sea below the West Cliff
beside the harbour, some children were playing on the sand, occasionally
running and paddling up to their wastes.
The water takes on a milkiness, chalk leaching a fine sediment that
drifts with the current until a point some twenty yards out where it meets deeper
bluer water, the whole mixing in swirls of khaki, white and cyan. May sea temperatures are around ten or eleven
degrees Celsius.
In his account of his father, Life,[ii]
Edmund Gosse writes. At
the head of the procession, like Apollo conducting the Muses, my father strides
ahead in an immense wide-awake, loose black coat and trousers, and fisherman's
boots, with a collecting basket in one hand, a staff or prod in the other. Then follow gentlemen of every age, all
seeming spectacled and old to me, and many ladies in the balloon costume of
1855, with shawls falling to a point from between their shoulders to the edge
of their flounced petticoats, each wearing a mushroom hat with streamers.
[i] William Dyce (1858-60) Pegwell Bay, Kent - a Recollection of October 5th 1858. Oil on canvas. Tate Britain
[ii] The Life of Philip Henry Gosse (1890). Philip Henry Gosse was a pioneer of marine
science and a populariser of natural history.
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