Sky Scanning

Scanning has a long history, as a male dominated hobby since the invention of radio.  In the UK scanners have been available commercially since the early 60’s. Shorrock Developments Ltd from Blackburn Lancs seem to be the first UK company selling airband radio it cost about £36 pounds about £700 now. Many are still working […]

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Wintersound Festival

My radio hats will be Voicing Gender at the Wintersound Festival on Sat 26th Jan 6pm at Sidney Cooper Gallery : WINTERSOUND: 24-26 January 2019 @ Sidney Cooper Gallery Returning for its third year, the Sidney Cooper Gallery is warmed from its midwinter chill by striking performances and sound installations by local, national and international […]

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Skyport work in progress at PMS

I am doing a winter residency at the Watershed PMS in Bristol and writing a blog about my time there and work in progress: Air Matters: Learning from Heathrow is a forthcoming exhibition and programme of events at Watermans Arts Centre, 8th October – 31st Dec 2019, that explores the politics of air at London […]

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PMS blog

During my winter residency at the Watershed Pervasive Media Studio. I am writing a blog please for them read my first update here As first impressions go, I found the PMS to be a hive of activies and buzzing enthusiasm, which made it very clear to me why so many artists use the space to […]

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Watershed Pervasive Media Studio

I’m spending the winter doing a residency doing some blue sky thinking at the Watershed Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol.  I’m looking forward to spending some bespoke time working on a new project, focusing my research on the contested and protected radio airspace, above us in the sky. ‘Skyport,’ is a multimedia sound installation that […]

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Ash Archive

  The Ash Archive: Kaleidoscope Gallery ‘The Ash Archive’ is a growing collection of objects, artworks, poems and drawings that chart a unique materialist perspective on the history that we share with the ash tree. Curated by Madeleine Hodge and Rose Thompson for The Ash Project 10–20 Oct 2018, Monday – Saturday, 10–4pm Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope […]

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Dream Space 2 Whitstable Biennale

  Dream Space 2 will be installed at St Peters Church for Whitstable Biennale 2018 Satellite, programme. It creates an intimate space to listen to dreams via radios, inspired by an early surrealist radio programme of Robert Desnos in 1937  La Clef des Songes [The Key of Dreams]  listeners were invited to submit their dreams for interpretation and dramatisation, […]

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Dream Space 2 AFE Review

Dream Space 2 is on show till March 18th at Nunnery Gallery at Bow Arts London. As part of the Arts For The Environment Exhibition. Here is a review of the show from Geographical Magazine. The work uses analogue radios to transmit the dreams into the space, and moves forward my previous installation in Jerwood […]

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