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...