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Truthing Gap
Submersion Dive Training Centre - Oban 2005

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.


Banff

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Banff

These images were made in 2007 during a residency on the theme of 'imaginary Places' at Banff Arts Centre, Canada. They are primarily concerned with the ambiguous nature of the water's surface.

As compared to the first set of images in the submersion series - shot at Tair Lair tidal pool in Scotland - in which a female figure offers a counterpoint to the landscape, suggestive of an interior space, here the body of the viewer provides an echo for the emptiness of the pool.


Tarlair

  • Tair Lair
Tarlair

Tarlair: Tair Lair


The Encircling of a Shadow

Commissioned and Exhibited: Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall. 2001


Breaking the surface

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Breaking the surface

Commissioned: Hull Time Based Arts. Exhibited: William Wilberforce Museum, Hull. 2002

Made up of forty separate electron miroscope scans (at a magnification of 200 x) of the inside of a pearl revealing the speck of dirt which had caused the oyster to generate it.


s[H]elf II

s[H]elf II
Residency and Exhibition: La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, Canda. 1999

Reasoning Backwards

Reasoning Backwards
Exhibited: Dartington Arts Devon 2000

A little light relief


Surfing - a term that in this context takes on a new meaning - the net last night, in search of images which reveal a popular sense of the sub maritime, I came across a collection of photographs taken by Bruce Mozert in the 1930's of underwater tableaux. Searching more widely the predominance of images of women in underwater settings is striking revealing perhaps, in the fantastic character of these exotic projections, a deep sense of association between the feminine and the fluid along with a desire to colonise and domestic such spaces. The later being evident too in the number of underwater restaurants, shops and hotels that exist worldwide.

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Posted Monday 23rd February, 2009 at 10:19 pm