Cuckoo Farm Studios

Statement

• My work explores the visual beauty generated by sound, documenting its effects upon water. Started in 2004 with an interactive installation that allowed viewers to create any sound they desired via a microphone, this sound was then shown manipulating a shallow pool of water. After several re-jigs of the design in 2006 the piece and the aesthetics created became the corner stone of my work, brushing aside my more challenging personal, dark painting work. Watching the ripples shimmer across a black pool I felt a very strong feeling of visual solace, something I craved in the real world. Beautiful, ambiguous and foreign landscape, all generated by man-made sound manipulating a natural body. Documenting my installation through photography and video has given rise to further visual explorations. With video I can manipulate the visuals within the fourth dimension, whereas the photography has helped me to understand its silent beauty. Now, in 2008, the photography work is visually informing new painting work.

  Also in 2008 the video work is helping me to take the visuals away from their original grounded meaning. The experimental film ‘Possessed’, is working with this very visual concept.

  My artistic influences over the years have leaned towards artists, who create visually stunning, emotionally charged pieces, artists such as Turner, Rembrandt, and Viola. Also artists exploring the visual beauty of sound, a huge influence has been the Russian painter Wassilly Kandinsky. The installation artist Susan Hiller has also added to my aesthetic understanding.

  
  
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Selected Images

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• Emanate, Digital Photograph, 2007
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• Enclosure, Video/Sound Installation, 2007
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• Spray, Digital Photograph, 2007
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• Enclosed, Video Still, 2007
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• Enclosed, Video Still, 2007

Education

Born Hatfield Peverel, Essex, England late 1980.
Passed three A-Levels at the Witham Sixth Form
Centre, and then completed a Fine Art BTEC Foundation
Course. Graduated with a BAHons from Colchester
School of Art in 2003. Then gained a one year
Scholarship at Cuckoo Farm Studios. When
Completed I stayed on at Cuckoo Farm Studios
as a permanent tenant.

Selected Exhibitions

On Now!

'Long Established mediums harmonize with New Media'
The Lloyd Gill Gallery
Weston-super-Mare
26.04.08 - 23.05.08
For more details visit www.thelloydgillgallery.com
Work: 3 videos and 3 prints.

'Yours Mine Ours'
University Gallery
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
CO4 3SQ
24.04.08 - 31.05.08
Work: A piece to run along side this exhibition showing in the window of the gallery. We were ask to dismantle a A1 poster of the Mona Lisa and then rework it. My response will be shown between the 17 - 24th May. 'Yours Mine Exhibition' features artist such as Jake and Dinos Chapman, Idris Khan and Seb Petane. For more info visit www.essex.ac.uk/arts.

Exhibition History
Solo Exhibitions

2007
Sonic Ripples, Hector Croot, Estate Agents, Colchester, Essex.

2006
Echoing Ur Sound, Benham Gallery, Colchester, Essex.

2004
Sonic Circled, Benham Gallery, Colchester, Essex.
Sonic Circles, Hay Gallery, Colchester, Essex.



Exhibition History
Group Exhibitions

2008
"Long Established Mediums Harmonize with New Media", The Lloyd Gill Gallery, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset
Cuckoo Farm Studios Show, Life Gallery, Colchester.
“An Emotional Journey”, Mansfield Museum, Mansfield, Notts.
“Posted3”, Poster Hoardings, Cork, Ireland.
“InterAlia”, Abandoned shop, Chelmsford, Essex.

2007
“Mini Print 2007”, Artlink Gallery, Hull, Kingston-upon-Hull.
“Winter Lights”,The Benham Gallery, Colchester, Essex.
Video Art Showcase 2007, St Mary, Key Arts, Ipswich, Suffolk.
“Worldwide Moving Image 3”,  E32, New York City, USA.
“Enclosure”, The Benham Gallery, Colchester, Essex.
“Replenish”, Saltburn Gallery, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Redcar and Cleveland.
Cuckoo Farm Studios Show, Naze Tower, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex.
Open Studios Exhibition, Life Gallery Cafe, Colchester, Essex.
Open Studios, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester, Essex.
"Prelude" Art Fair, Spitalfields, London.

2006
“Winter Lights”, The Benham Gallery, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Essex.
Open Studios Xmas Show, Life Gallery Café, Colchester, Essex.
Open Studios Show, Life Gallery Café, Colchester, Essex.

2005
Cuckoo Farm Studios Show, The Babylon Gallery, Ely, Cambridgeshire.
“Winter Lights”, The Benham Gallery, Colchester, Essex.
Cuckoo Farm Studios Show, Life Gallery Cafe, Colchester, Essex.
Cuckoo Farm Studios Show, The Pond Gallery,Snape Maltings, Suffolk.
Cuckoo Farm studios Show, The Minories, Colchester, Essex.

2004
“Winter Lights”, The Benham Gallery, Colchester, Essex.
Cuckoo Farm Studios Show, Inkpen Downie, Colchester, Essex.
Outside, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester, Essex.
Print Show, The Benham Gallery, Colchester, Essex.
Cuckoo Farm Studios Show, Buckenham Gallery, Southwold,  Suffolk.

2003
Winter Lights, Benham Gallery, Colchester, Essex.
Free Range, Graduate Show, Old Truman Brewery, London.
Graduate Show, Colchester School of Art, Essex.
Untitled Show, Life Gallery Cafe, Colchester, Essex.