2008 - 2009
Video and photographs

Integrating almost obsolete equipment with recent technologies No network explores the tensions between still and moving image. The video offers a glimpse of photographic realism through a journey into and out of abstraction. Location and posture are documented in a specific geographical context relating to the artists own first experiences of mobile technologies whist living in rural Scotland in the 1990’s.

Photographs of the water towers of rural East Anglia document how architectural structures have been corrupted with an altogether modern phenomenon. Antenna, mast and transmitter equipment now make use of this elevated location within the landscape to facilitate our connection to ‘the network’.

The video and photographic works explore the concept of contactibility from different perspectives. The trust one has in the network and how one feels when isolated from it.

No network and Field Strength Studies interrogate the technologies used in production of art work and in daily life. The work references ongoing interests in everyday cultural artefacts and activities.

No network 2008 digital video (2 minutes 22 seconds)

Field Strength Study 1 & 3 2009 digital photographs (dimensions variable)

Produced as part of Working Practices (2007 – 2009) a self initiated project supported by The National Lottery through Arts Council England, Norfolk County Council Arts Project Fund, Sir Phillip Reckitt Educational Trust, Commissions East and the former Space 4 Gallery in Peterborough Museum.