Photo London (Hi-Noon)
9th Sept - 12th Sept 2021
A limited edition A3 print - collaged in 3D Text by Hi-Noon for Photo London. "Hallucinatory, joyful and bold, UNLIMITED PLEASURE is a timely new work that explores the role of desire in our collective obsession with technology. An ironic sex bot explores the origins of life and fetish as part of the complexity of human unconsciousness. Both the violence ...
The Drawing Room Biennial |Tannery Arts
21st May - 5th July 2021
Pencil drawing on paper The Drawing Room Biennial was an on-line fundraiser of 300 drawings for which I gave a drawing associated with a VR work which I made with Keith Sargent called 'Care(less)'. This was a drawing of entangled worms, Also on the 15th June at 6pm -7pm I gave a talk with Alvaro Barrington, Jade Montserrat and Herdeep ...
The Letter Paintings and Drawings | Studio Exhibition
12th November - 12th January 2021
Materials: ink, pen, pencil, digital prints, 3 dimensional spheres and other small objects in deep box frames. A series of collaged drawings/paintings and digital images made on paper. The works are 3D and have elements on the exterior of the frames. The works often take an expanded height and width dimension scaled up from Richard Dadd's Fairy Fellers Master Stroke ...
Hold onto (G)love | postal project
August 2020
Materials: paper, card, pen, ink, digital print, blu-ray disc. A postal project in which I sent a DVD of a film of robins nesting in my shed to 50 people (30 editioned). Part of an essay inspired by the robins [...]Amongst all this birds nested in our shed – robins. I filmed them watching a fly with avid desire (their ...
Extramission 2 [False Memory] Rugby Art Gallery and Museum
6th August - 14th November 2020
Materials: a video PAL projection with surround sound and subwoofer, 2 video works for monitors with headphones, 2 plinths and a bench (all videos are screened together and looped). The films are housed in a fabric tent on a wooden structure with a fabric screen on a wooden frame. http://extramissions.com/ Extramission 2 (The projected film inside the tent) 15 minutes The ...
Nowhere Less Now3 [Flying Saucer]
26th September - 26th December 2020
Materials: 3 synchronised monitors, 5.1 surround sound, mylar curtain, 6 geometric forms, folded paper, seating and carpet. You enter a building called the Flying Saucer, which originally stood on the edge of an old army camp, but now the city engulfs it. It is hot outside but the building is cooled and you feel the relief from the opressive heat ...
Every Thought There Ever Was | John Hansard Gallery
8th February –11th April 2020
Materials: two robots, surround sound system, radio headphones, 3 synchronized media players, 3 projectors and a programmed light, 22 framed drawings and paper installations The viewer enters the space guided by an invigilator who shows the way to a high bench with a torch. It is ideal to come and go at the point the robots start up. The robots ...
Super(seed)ed/an extension of Care(less)
1st April - 31st March 2020
100 packets of sunflower seeds were posted to recipients across Europe, the majority being in the UK and Ireland, some seeds were posted to those who responded to a Facebook posting requesting that I send them the seeds if they send me an address. The action was inspired by the death of my father who had given me sunflowers to ...
Care(less) | Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
15- 23 January 2020
Materials: VR Headsets with headphones, wall paintings, shadow lamps, medical swivel stools, 6 drawings and sunflower heads. You enter a low lit spac,e either in a castle dungeon in Lincoln, a deconsecrated church in Brighton or in a hidden room in Birmigham. Inside these rooms there is a shadow play of sihouettes that are blown around the walls, looming and ...
Every Thought There Ever Was | Courthouse, 88 Arbroath High Street, Scotland (with Hospitalfield House)
7th September – 13th October 2019
Materials: two robots, surround sound system, radio headphones, 3 synchronized media players, 3 projectors and a programmed light, 22 framed drawings and paper installations Corroborators Keith Sargent and Pendle Poucher Using the former Courthouse building in Arbroath’s Town Centre for the second time, Hospitalfield is co-commissioner of a new work by UK-based artist Lindsay Seers, Every Thought There Ever Was. ...
Care(less) | Fabrica, Brighton
5th October - 24th November 2019
Materials: VR Headsets with headphones, wall paintings, shadow lamps, medical swivel stools, 6 drawings and sunflower heads. This work addresses hallucination and embodied viewing in relation to our current social and economic constructs regarding attitudes to the elderly and social care in Britain. It is also concerned with the hallucinatory condition of filmic mediums (here specifically Virtual Reality) which feel ...
Vanishing Twin (Tetragametic Chimerism) | Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway
23rd January - 2nd March 2019
Materials: 23 framed photographs, 4 monitor works and a projection with stereo sound In the morass of general political/social ideas about the world and its current state, each one of us has to navigate this excess of divergent information with our fleshy ageing bodies and our own specific and local perceptions. How do we conceive of a "race" or of ...