Freelands Foundation Emergency Grant

I am very glad to announce that I have been generously awarded a Freelands Foundation Emergency Grant which will help me to refocus my practice to have online and digital outputs. I am enormously thankful to the Freelands Foundation for this funding.

Lumen: Arts Council Emergency Response Fund

We are so pleased to have received a grant from the Arts Council’s Emergency Response Fund for Lumen. This funding will help us to keep Lumen open as a gallery when it is safe to do so, and enable us to do a series of online programming including creating a film. Thank you to The National Lottery players, DCMS UK and Arts Council England for this support!

A huge thanks to Elizabeth Jordan at Re : Future Collective and Kate @gasworkslondon Artist Grant Writing initiative, for their invaluable advice.

We look forward to sharing news soon about new activities this grant will fund!

super/collider super/science E3: Alice Morley/ Exploring Marine Wonders Around Thanet

09 June
7PM BST

Join us for the third episode in our new online event series, super/science.

Buy tickets here.

During this online event, you will learn about the ecology of the Margate Coastline, in association with Resortful and South East Creatives.

This talk with Alice Morley will allow people to learn more about the exciting variety of marine life we have around the Thanet Coast, which is often hidden beneath the waves! Here we will discuss some of the local species we can see on the shores across Kent, as well as the different habitats that species call home. This talk will also touch on the historic and cultural aspects of some offshore sites around the North Kent coast, and we will discuss the importance of marine conservation zones and how they can help to protect and preserve our fascinating marine environment for future generations. Following this talk, super/collider co-director Louise Beer and her partner John Hooper will observe marine objects under a microscope.

Alice Morley is a Marine Conservation Officer at Kent Wildlife Trust, with a background in Marine Environmental Management. After finishing her degree, Alice spent a couple of years living and working in Yorkshire before moving down to Kent. Her current role with Kent Wildlife Trust is varied and includes aspects such as commenting on marine and coastal planning proposals; campaigning for stronger marine protection and advocating for better management of marine conservation zones; providing environmental advice to offshore developers; delivering marine consultancy projects; and organising events such as shore surveys and invasive species control events working alongside volunteers and citizen scientists. 

This event will be accessed on the Zoom platform.

Photo by Peter Neumann on Unsplash

Fringe Arts Bath/ Phantom Perspectives Curated by Jennifer McDonald

I am very pleased to have been included in Phantom Perspectives with John Hooper for Fringe Arts Bath, curated by Jennifer McDonald we are showing stills from our film Photon. You can walk around this amazing online exhibition through this link.

The festival runs from 22 May - 7 June. 

Phantom Perspectives explores the relationship between art, science and technology by testing the boundaries of our perspectives. By considering the ocular capacities of the human eye, each artist seeks to tackle perception, whether it is focused on our bodies, our sight, or the walls of the gallery itself. 

The multi-disciplinary approach will interrogate our perspectives of reality through an immersive environment. Life is often regimented, controlled and reasonable, bearing the imprint of a socially constructed perspective. Yet, Phantom Perspectives seeks to present the intangible through physical and virtual representations of a new reality that can be attained through the removal of influence. 

Subverting the traditional viewing experience, the exhibition presents one that encourages participation and active engagement of the audience. Through this interrogation of perceived normality, we can question our increasingly mechanised society by utilising art to blur the rigid perspectives that can be imprinted on our reality.

super/collider super/science E2: Professor Roberto Trotta/ Language of the Stars

Watch the video here.

During this online event, we heard from theoretical cosmologist Roberto Trotta about his book The Edge of the Sky, which explains the Universe using just 1000 simple words.

From the big bang to black holes, from dark matter to dark energy, from the origins of the universe to its ultimate destiny, The Edge of the Sky tells the story of the most important discoveries and mysteries in modern cosmology--with a twist. The book's lexicon is limited to the thousand most common words in the English language, excluding physics, energy, galaxy, or even universe. Through the eyes of a fictional scientist (Student-People) hunting for dark matter with one of the biggest telescopes (Big-Seers) on Earth (Home-World), cosmologist Roberto Trotta explores the most important ideas about our universe (All-there-is) in language simple enough for anyone to understand. A unique blend of literary experimentation and science popularization, this delightful book is a perfect gift for any aspiring astronomer. The Edge of the Sky tells the story of the universe on a human scale, and the result is out of this world.

Roberto is a Professor of Astrostatistics in the Astrophysics Group at Imperial College London, an Academic Fellow of the Data Science Institute at Imperial College London and the Director of Imperial’s Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication.

***Roberto donated his share of money raised through tickets to Help Musicians Corona Virus Hardship Fund.

Quarantined Light, curated by Lewis Andrews

I am delighted to have been selected for an online exhibition by Lewis Andrews. The show will be featuring my ‘Rising Moon’ series.

You can view the exhibition online from 15 May at 12PM here or find the PDF below.

Shop/ Now/ Open

I have opened a webshop of some of my favourite prints. Get in touch if you would like to purchase something not listed on my website.

Instagram Residency with Transient

From 20 - 24 April I will be doing an Instagram Residency with Transient, curated by Lydia Grifiths.

Over the period I will be sharing work two posts per day about my practice. TRANSIENT is a new online platform aiming to promote emerging artists who explore the relationship between art and technology

BigCi Environmental Art Awards 2020

I would like to share some wonderful news in this strange time. John Hooper and I have been awarded a BigCi Environmental Award 2020. For this award, we will be participating in a month-long residency at BigCi under our collective name, Pale Blue Dot Collective. BigCi is situated on the edge of Wollemi National Park within the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Greater Blue Mountains near Sydney, Australia and offers artists the opportunity to immerse themselves into the Australian bush.

During our residency we will create an immersive sound and visual experience that invites international audiences to create a meaningful connection to the individual life forms of the Wollemi National Park. Through video, photography and sound recording, we will create a time capsule of a moment in history that seems to be a tipping point in the human created deterioration of millions of years of successful evolution. We will photograph and film the night sky, the flora and fauna and landscapes. Using field recordings, we will create a complex narrative sound piece that echoes the sounds of the Blue Mountains.

We are deeply honoured to have received such an award and can’t wait to get there and immersive ourselves in the environment. We will continue our research until we get there.