Formula, 2012

Performance with Glass Plates as Writing Slates, Wooden Stands, Slide Projector and Slides, Whiteboard Markers and a Painting by an unknown artist

Dimensions variable

This work was performed as part of Peloton Gallery's Performance Month #2.

In Formula, I worked through various equations to try and find a mathematical expression of the sentiment in the work Thinking, Not Doing.

Untitled (Southern Window), 2012

Glass, Lead, Wood

234 x 138 x 54cm

 Both photos: Vivian Cooper-Smith

Exhibited with (L-R) Alicia Sciberras, Vivian Cooper-Smith, Dara Gill, Helen Poyser and Iakovos Amperidis - unseen out of picture and making noise was the work of Julian Day

Invested Objects, 2009

Plywood, Nuts and Bolts, Pine, Coloured Paper laminated onto Plywood

Installation comprised of five components: Large Object, One Against Another I & II, One Against Another In Colour I & II

Invested Objects involves a large plywood construction suspended from the ceiling of the gallery. Its appearance is complete in the sense of being finished and displayed, although in existing only as framework there is a sense of abandonment and perhaps futility. The vacant centre and lack of any cladding on the large frame suggest a greater absence.
Four framed diagrammatic pictures relate to its construction and projected possibilities. The pictures work both in opposition and cooperation with the frame, documenting it in the form of a plan, similar to plans used for building objects such as boats, planes and buildings. At the same time they give a suggestion of what it may have been with cladding, while the works in colour operate in the same sense but operate on a painterly, abstract plane.

Thinking, Not Doing, 2012

Glass, Gold and Wooden Frame
99 x 80cm

Objet D'Art, 2011

Wood, Paint, Copper
40 x 40 x 4cm

Study in Bronze, 2010

Bronze, Turned Wooden Stand
148 x 30cm

Every Man and His Dog or: Let's Not Be Too Dogmatic, 2012

Single channel video work
1minute 41seconds looping

Filmed by Girard, with thanks to Alfie the dog

Video Still: Girard Dorney

Nostalgia For The Never Known, 2008

Hoop Pine, Kauri Pine, Digital Video on DVD, Slides and Projector, Television, Plywood boxes

In Nostalgia For The Never Known, a small wooden boat sits amongst video and slide projection that shows its involvement in a performance. The boat itself is designed to hold only one person- its builder and owner, the artist.
It is a boat that has been painstakingly laboured over, built out of six millimetre strips of Hoop Pine in a traditional style, exclusively for one voyage out to sea.
This one voyage involves the builder tying a rope to the boat and tying the other end of the rope to his body before swimming out into the ocean, towing the boat behind him. The physical presence of the boat alongside its image within the frame of video questions the representational qualities of video.

  

No End In Sight, 2008

Bicycle, Bicycle home trainer, Live video feed, Computer hardware and software, video projector

In No End In Sight, a bicycle stands alone mounted on a stationary home-trainer to be ridden by the participating viewer.  The bicycle faces a projected video image of the artist front-on, stationary and pedalling on the same bicycle, mounted on the same trainer, in the same fashion.
When the viewer mounts the bicycle and begins to pedal, the image of the artist starts to fade and the appearance of another begins to materialise, taking its place.  The new image, a live feed of the participating viewer, is obtained from a concealed video camera at a slightly obscure angle, behind the viewer.
For a moment, two riders appear in unison and the viewer is uncertain of what they are seeing, until the image fully materialises and they recognise it to be their own.

Clark Gable Dines Alone and Shaves His Moustache, 2008

Digital Video, 8 min 39 sec

The artist performs as the actor Clark Gable, solemnly dining alone on pasta and red wine. The single shot scene then shifts to the bathroom where the artist/Gable proceeds to shave off his moustache. The work explores themes of obsolete celebrity and the artist's own identity.

Postcards From A Holiday, 2004

Four Channel Video Installation on DVD loop
Duration 30 minutes

Postcards From A Holiday features four couples on individual screens; each couple poised, with bags
packed, ready to go on holidays.  They, however, do not go anywhere and only continue to wave goodbye for the duration of their thirty-minute loop. 
The couples are trapped in the interior of video, and one of video’s formal functions, the loop, is used to convey this.  Their entrapment in a position of just-about-to-leave, an animated snapshot of a classic image of a departing couple, alludes to there being no escape, or even holidays.

Dead Television, 2003

Television, VHS tape and player, Slides, Slide Projector

Images have been photographed from the television and made into slides.The slides are then projected back onto the surface of the television screen, which becomes an opaque surface, receiving light rather than emitting it.
Fragments of transmission have been removed from their origin and then directed back in a different form, externalising the process of transmission. Meanwhile the television occasionally shows the classic 'switch off' image, in which the screen displays a momentary zapping white line. This was employed to signal the subterranean nature of the transmission that exists beneath the surface of a television, which is otherwise an object.

The Western Window, 2012

Glass, Lead, Wood

234 x 138 x 54cm

The Western Window, 2012 pictured with Being Forgotten, 2012, wooden lecturn and carbon-copy grid book

In a different light...