Truthing Gap involves research into undersea environments and related human activity. It is driven by an interest in the extra visual/geographic nature of the submaritime.
Between 2008-10 I was Leverhulme Trust, Artist in Residence at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, one of the world's top five oceanographic research institutions, working with sonar geophysicist Dr Tim Le Bas exploring methods of seabed mapping and undersea survey. The project explored the play of myth, imagination and objectivity, involved in envisaging environments that cannot be directly experienced, probing issues of knowledge production, perception and the nature of the scientific gaze.
Commissioned and Exhibited: Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall. 2001
Commissioned: Span 2. Exhibited: Dilston Grove London, 2002, Taxi Gallery, Cambridge 2002.
Sound Recording
A series of works in progress exhibited at Howard Gardens
Gallery, University of Wales Institute and The National
Oceanography Centre, Library, Southampton
Each marks an attempt to engage with processes of representing the
undersea world while providing a ounterpoint to the virtual and
optical emphasis of scientific methods. Seeking ways of 'knowing',
centred upon the imagination, desire, the body and touch, capable
of resisting the separation of subject and object demanded by the
use of observation as a way of encountering the world.