C.V.
2023
Kafka's Telephone. Selected for the Big Cellar Collective event by Dada Lounge Porthmeor studios in St Ives in September;
an interactive and generative sound installation inspired by Kafka's description of a telephone call in his last novel The Castle;
employing an early twentieth century wall based telephone.
2020-2023
In the process of assembling a library of different species of tree recording with artist Timothy Crowley, using contact mics
on the trunks to hear the sound of the rising sap in the xylem tubes. The sounds reveal a surprising world of sloshing, guzzling, knocks,
creaks and groans within the timber.
2022-2023
Currently working on a sequence of photographic sound installation with accompanying field recordings. Each installation
is a re-experience of a place in Cornwall that we have become familiar with through wild camping and cycling.
2019
Swirl Bude Sea Pool. Interactive, participatory and generative sound Installation in collaboration with
artist Timothy Crowley, commissioned by Sound UK and Exeter University as part of REFLECT- ARTS AND MIND PROJECT.
2018 (October)
Swarm Installation event and workshop. A commissioned sculpture for Falmouth University (Penryn Campus) a ceramic swarm of gilded bees
inspired by the dream of Walter Bronescombe, by Kate Ogley and Timothy Crowley. Swarm was created with the help of local people, staff and students
from Falmouth University. All took part in a series of bee making workshops where they made individual press-molded clay bees.
2018 (September)
Souls Live on in Perpetual Echoes, Plymouth Art Weekender. 3 day outdoor public sound installation inspired by Plymouth’s prehistoric
Bone Caves with Timothy Crowley.
2017
Awarded Skills Share Fair bursary with artist Timothy Crowley. Bee pressing workshop (Swarm). Field Notes, Penryn Arts Festival.
2017
Place-Exploration a 5 day residency by Bram Arnold with Davis+Jones at Kestle Barton.
2017
Transit Plymouth Art Weekender sound installation located in the trees at Frankfort Gate; collaboration with artist Timothy Crowley,
asylum seekers and migrant workers in Plymouth with special thanks to Patrick, Musad, Edson and Rassa for their (anonymous) contributions.
2017
Bee pressing workshop at Tipping Points and Chaos Exhibition and BioBlitz Festival Falmouth University.
2017
Swarm Collaborative participatory project with artist Timothy Crowley commissioned by Falmouth University.
2017
Joined LUX Critical Forum at CAST Institute Helston.
2017
Scallop Cutters digital film, screened as part of Bodies of Water Programme curated by Dr. Kayla Parker. Force 8 all-day artists’ film event, The Galley, Bridport, Dorset; 11am to 5pm.
2017
Flow A weeks collaborative residency at The Crypt Gallery, London, with sound artist Timothy Crowley; we created a series of sound installations inspired by the subterranean river Fleet that flows nearby.
2016
Bridge Of Air. Bridgeguard Residency 3 month collaborative and community based art residency in Sturovo, Slovakia with sound artist Timothy Crowley.
2015
Scallop Cutters digital film, screened as part of Surface Deep: Bodies of Water, Murdoch House, Redruth, Cornish Film Festival.
2015
Scallop Cutters digital film screening as part of Bodies of Water Programme, presented
jointly by the Land/Water and the Visual Arts and Moving Image Arts (MIA)
research groups. Plymouth University.
2015
Shortlisted in collaboration with Timothy Crowley for Bristol Biennale: In
Other Worlds
2015
Mentor for artist Orly Ammon. Backlane West Redruth.
2014
Scallop Cutters digital film selected for artists moving image programme
Bodies of Water The Royal West of England Academy Bristol.
2014
Embedded. Devised and created a four day contemporary art event with sound artist Timothy Crowley at the historic Enys
Gardens for Penryn Festival. Showcasing work of 10 international and regional
artists as well as providing a series of diverse and innovative workshops.
2014
Lineage digital film installation observing the nocturnal
rituals involved in the collection, identification and recording of moths and their
extraordinary genetic lineage. Embedded.
2014
Embedded. Drop in Sound Workshop hosted by Timothy Crowley and Kate
Ogley. Participants made sounding objects which triggered rhythmical and melodic
sounds on a computer. The generative computer program written by Timothy
Crowley (in Supercollider) played the composition during this interaction, allowing
the participant to hear and immediately contribute to it. Participants contributed to
the creation of an 8 minute sound composition which became available to
download on SoundCloud.
2014
Sound Art Workshops hosted by Timothy Crowley and Kate Ogley
sponsored by Krowji. A fun and innovative introduction to Sound Art for
the general public and people with profound learning difficulties.
2014
Embedded. Moth Magic, A nocturnal workshop exploring the secret world of
moths with one of the foremost moth experts in the county Tony James and his wife
Pat. The workshop observed and recorded moths within Enys garden, inviting
participants to appreciate the huge variety and subtle beauty of these creatures.
2013
Scallop Cutters digital film Back Lane West Art Film Night Tee Rex
Cinema Penryn Arts Festival.
2013
Super Moon. collaboration with sound installation artist Timothy Crowley
on the Ark at Jubilee Wharf. An evening of live performance and sonic
installation presented by School of Noises as part of Penryn Arts Festival.
2013
Karst Residency exchange Plymouth with Backlane West,. Ongoing
project collecting songs from migrant workers in the Stonehouse district of the
city and creating sound interventions within the urban landscape.
2013
Meantime Residency in Cheltenham. Audio portraiture -
songs and interviews with migrant workers
2012
Scallop
Cutters
film selected for Cologne Experimental Documentary
Festival 2012 part of the Cologne International Video
Art Festival a nomadic festival project
2012
Shpella
Family digital film selected for screening; Square
Eyes Bologna, Caz event, Exchange Gallery Penzance
and Bologna Italy
2012
Shpella Family digital film and Sonnets sound
installation; interweaving themes of enchantment,
absence and migration. Site- Non- Site NSA event at Kestle
Barton
2012
Selected for mentoring session
with Benn Cooke director of Lux organisation. Mezz
opportunity,Stroud Valley Arts in collaboration with
Meantime.
2012
Presentation, Liminal Bodies Cornwall Autonomous Zone
event Exchange Gallery Penzance
2011
Residency in the Thethi
valley
Albania.
In association with The Balkan Peace Park Project. Lives
in a Landscape
2011
Selected for the
Embark Bursary
2011
Different Trains
screened at Square Eyes Caz event, Exchange Gallery Penzance
2011
Contributed to Navigating Art Therapy
with exerpt on pioneering artist/activist Joseph Beuys (2011), compiled by Chris Wood
E.Sussex, USA and Canada, Routledge: www.navigatingarttherapy.org
2010
Songs of Displacement
film installation. Happidrome,The Lizard.
Situated in an abandoned World War 2 bunker the work makes
the inherent connection between war and displaced people. I
was concerned with the idea of the essential song or Cantus
Firmus that expresses something fundamental about who we
are.
(happidrome.wordpress.com)
2010
Stardust to Flesh multi media installation,
rainwater, hotplate, magnets, microscopes, digital film,
overhead projectors Extracting micro meteorites from
rainwater collected from the gallery roof; exploring the
significance of traces from other worlds. Exchange Gallery
Penzance.Transition 9
2009
Different Trains digital film sponsored by Krowji,
the Cornwall Film Festival, first part of a 3000km journey
from Istanbul to Tehran
2008
Show and Tell digital film. Invigorate event at the
Exchange Gallery in Penzance; Evaluation of the Wharf
Wharf! event
2007
Treasurer for the More
campaign. Umbrella group coordinating 15 artist- led
projects across Cornwall during June July and August
2007
Scallop Cutters, digital film A day in the life of
migrant workers at Falmouth Wharf exploring themes of
displacement and absence. Wharf.Wharf! Falmouth
Wharf.
2007
Scallop Cutters digital film One in a Million,
Illogan Highway Methodist Chapel
2007
Co-curator of Wharf! Wharf!;
Site-specific exhibition at Falmouth Wharf (one of the
largest indoor art events in Cornwall) featuring artist led
group Level 2 and invited artists Brendan Byrne, Paul
Chaney, Zierle and Carter.
2007
Full Fathom Five
installation, crushed scallop shells commemorating the lives
of World War 2 servicemen who’s bodies had been laid out in
the warehouse at Falmouth Wharf after Dunkirk.
Wharf,Wharf!
event
2007
Birds
featured in publication Wheal Art, ed(s) Sharkey et al
2006 Birds
KInetic Installation, kid leather gloves, string, motor and
motion sensor.
Wheal Art Weekend
2007
Birds
featured in publication Wheal Art, ed(s) Sharkey et al
2006
Birds KInetic Installation, kid leather gloves, string,
motor and motion sensor. Wheal Art Weekend
2005
Wharf, the Secret History, group exhibition by art
collective Level 2 Falmouth Art Centre; Sack Series
2004
Open Studios. Falmouth Wharf, Falmouth Cornwall
2004
M.A Show Falmouth University College
2002
Group show with Asp artist group at The Mews Gallery, Penryn
Cornwall
Positions and Awards
2011
Member of Newlyn Society of Artists
2008
£100 commission from Krowji for film project at the Big
Pitcher Event as part of Cornwall Film Festival 2008
2007
On steering committee as treasurer for the More campaign
2006
Creative skills travel award to see the Liverpool Biennale
2006
Level 2 awarded £25,000 by English heritage for a two- year
research led project examining the history, site and people
of Falmouth Wharf.
2004
Creative Skills development fund award to visit Jacki Irvine
exhibition in Leeds
2004
Level 2 Awarded Skills Development Fund of £5,000 for the
initial research led art project concerning Falmouth Wharf
2004-2007
Founding member and acting chair of the art initiative
Level 2.
Qualifications
2004-06
Postgraduate Certificate in Education at Cornwall College
2002-04
M.A. Fine Art, Falmouth University College
2000-02
Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art, Falmouth University
College
1985-88
B.A. Honours in Fine Art, Central Lancashire University
1984-85
Foundation in Art and Design, Brighton University
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