Lithic Entanglements

September 22 ongoing

With the support of ACE DYCP funding I have been conducting research in the collections and archives of The Lapworth and Sedgwick Earth Science Musuems, responding imaginatively to objects and experimenting with video, animation and collage in order to reflect on the social, political and metaphysical meanings of Mineralogy collections.

Acquistions

2023 ongoing

This body of work in development continues my exploration of excision and redaction as methods to critically highlight the acquisitive mechanisms of Imperialism

Florence Trust Studio Residency

August 2018 - July 2019

From August 2018 to July 2019 I participated in the Florence Trust studio residency programme exploring news ways of working developing my interests in collage, tracing, landscape and representation.

Geo/Studio

2015-21

GeoStudio was a research group, of staff and post-graduates within the Department of Arts at Northumbria University, convened by me as Professor of Fine Art, engaged in research around: the politics and aesthetics of geo-materiality; the geologic /​material turn in contemporary culture; post human nature; the legacies of land art; the studio /​field as a critical axis.