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Gabrielle Hoad

Exeter
I make work that includes live, ephemeral elements as well as more lasting traces such as photographs, films, publications and objects.

My practice is highly responsive to site and context. My interests include language, codes, signalling and the use of what John Berger calls 'technical clairvoyance' (such as night vision and GPS tracking) to extend normal human perception. 

Collaboration is central to my practice. I've worked with nature reserves, country estates and woodlands, as well as scientists, mathematicians, historians, foresters, farmers, botanists, birds, trees and a glider pilot.

 

The Porous Body

The Signal and the Noise

Delicate Instruments

Clouded Border

Ghost Moth

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