Artist statement
My practice explores the role of noise in the built environment; I am particularly interested in how to make use of those visual and aural signals that we normally block out or ignore. The end result might be a sound installation, a composition, performance or public intervention.
I define noise as unwanted signal – ever present, but rarely regarded as useful. In a world of information and consumer overload, I am fascinated with how I can use my practice to shift negative perceptions of noise, to discover and embrace the wealth of sonic detail living inside the urban drone. By reframing the way noise is heard through a mediated listening process and associated performative gestures or visual stimulus, I ask the listener to re-contextualise their experience of everyday sounds, and to prioritise listening over the dominant visual sense.
Qualifications and training
- 2005 MA Arts and Design by Independent Project, University of Brighton, Brighton
Solo exhibitions
- 2012 The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing, Fabrica, Brighton
- 2011 Base Sound :: Sonic Gold, HOUSE, Brighton
- 2011 The End of Listening, a&e gallery, Brighton
Group exhibitions
- 2012 Return of The Listening Ears, Visitor Information Centre, Rochester, Kent
- 2012 Ear Walks, Tate Britain, London
- 2008 Past Performance Is No Guarantee Of Future Results, Blank Gallery, Brighton
- 2007 Re:Play, Redoubt Museum, Eastbourne
- 2006 The Family Album, Sonic Arts Network Expo, Manchester
- 2001 Ice Tunnel, Union Gallery, Londion
Live/Performance
- 2013 Remixing Kinetica, Kinetica Art Fair 2013, Marylebone, London
- 2012 A Requiem for Grey Area, Grey Area gallery, Brighton
- 2010 The moment I saw you I knew I could love you, Curious, National Review of Live Art, Glasgow
Workshops
- 2012 MA Digital Media symposium, University of Brighton, Brighton
- 2010 Guest lectures, Edge Hill University, Liverpool
- 2009 The Voice and Everything Else, Tate Modern, London
- 2009 Lead Artist, Creative Partnerships, Filsham Valley, St Leonards-on-Sea
Residencies
- 2010 The White Room (with Johanna Berger), Creative Partnerships, St Leonards-on-Sea
- 2010 20 Wellington Road International Residency, Blast Theory, Brighton
Public commissions
- 2012 Sea of Voices, Invisible Flock @ Fabrica, Relay Olympic festival
- 2010 Water Powered Passenger Lift, Architecture Inside Out / SHAPE, Online and Festival of Architecture, London
- 2010 Resonating Canals, British Waterways sculpture trail, Stoke-on-Trent
- 2009 Architecture Inside Out films, Shape / AIO, Tate Modern & Woking Lightbox
- 2007 The Listening Tree, Dorothy Stringer School, Brighton
Site specific
- 2011 Concerto for Brutalist Buildings, Part of "Common Sounds", former Commonwealth Institute, London
- 2010 Start! - A Neo-Futurist Opera in 5 Movements, World Listening Day, Hoxton, London
- 2009 A Call to Arms, Fuse Medway festival, Upnor, Kent
- 2008 ReAwakening of a City, Conflux 08, Wall Street, New York City
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