conceptual practice
My creative practice research utilises my specialisms in personal archiving and (re)assemblage-based art practices. This encompasses processes of collecting, categorising, reconstructing, and assembling/re-assembling through mediums of pencil and ink drawing, text, crafted and found objects, stitching, and varied other forms of mark or impression making – currently characterised as absurd abstraction. These are integrated with (auto-)ethnography to create reflexive strategies to interrogate archival tendencies and the reciprocal relationship between artist and archive.
Archival Hindsight and Artistic Foresight.
October 2024
Final collection of works made during practice-based PhD exploring the reciprocal relationship between artist and archive. Wall pieces include Lines Iteration 1, Lines Iteration 2, Lines Iteration 3, Lines Iteration 4, Reflexive Typewritten Essays, and other initial and on-going experimental pieces.
(The Long Gallery, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne)
Materials: paper, pencil, ink,
Dimensions: Varied, primarily A4 pages
Installation: hung with adhesive photo corners and displays on plinths
Made in Sequence.
September 2018
A collection of hand-drawn and hand-etched tracings on paper and microscope glass slides. They are sampled examples, produced through a previous work Conversation: Abstracted in Conjunctures. (2017), exploring translation and transposition experimentations by code, habitual processes, collection and display.
(The NewBridge Project, Gateshead)
Materials: paper, ink, glass, frames
Dimensions: 53x73cm each/44x53cm each
(230x110cm total wall space)
Installation: hung on screws
Collating Hindsight.
January 2018
Experimental recycling of paper clay pieces, re-assembled and installed absent of historical references from previous piece (In Sited.)
(TESTT Space, Durham)
Materials: paper clay
Dimensions: 6x2cm each (30x30cm total floor space)
Installation: stacked on site
Traced Transpositions: Embellished Conversation.
January 2018
Framed and staggered experimental tracings of abstracted voice recordings made by previous interactive contraption (Conversation: Abstracted in Conjunctures.).
(TESTT Space, Durham)
Materials: paper, ink, frames
Dimensions: 23.5x 28.5cm each (130x100cm total wall space)
Installation: hung on screws
Conversation: Abstracted in Conjunctures.
September - November 2017
An interactive contraption alongside it’s growing collection of products. A delicate experimental device, designed to be spoken or blown into to produce abstract drawings, investigating and experiment with the concept of traces left behind by humanity in the context of sound, specifically how vocalisations as marks and markers in time. The work focuses on presenting a system of production and collection of visiting voices.
(The Holy Biscuit, Newcastle upon Tyne)
Materials: paper, ink, cork board, metal clips, and metal wire.
Dimensions: varied
Installation: plinth surrounded by wall-mounted clips
In Sited.
February 2017
Paper clay, cut and abstractly coded assemblage installed with consideration to the site’s history and qualities.
(Hoults Yard, Newcastle upon Tyne)
Materials: paper clay
Dimensions: 6x2cm each (varied total floor space)
Installation: assembled on site
To Be Seen: A Collection of Alleged Transpositions (To be Translated).
August 2017
An interactive soundscape installation, incorporating a collection of old-fashioned devices (including, a hand cranked sewing machine, a electric sewing machine, a Morse key, a typewriter, and a embosser), aside varying punctures and marks of each device on paper. Each pair of device and product is also accompanied by the sound of their making, flexibly triggered to pause when approached and by differing degrees of motion within the room.
(Culture Lab, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne)
Materials: paper, found machines (sewing, typewriter), speakers, laptop, plinths
Dimensions: unspecified, full room
Installation: wired and assembled
927-4954 & 104-132.
February - May 2017
Abstractly coded, thread-bound paper cards. Categorised, labelled and installed in varying sized drawers.
(Old Low Light, North Shields)
Materials: paper, thread, labels
Dimensions: 8x5cm each
Installation: displayed in case
