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  • Cam bi um flora
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  • dep can gre sou chorus of contact
  • sour bay
  • ringtones project
  • soft maps
  • moss listening
  • machine equities
  • bell auto 2
  • magnified ear exhibition
  • tape snare wood glen
  • oh o salinity
  • oh o salinity scores
  • salinity in fall
  • stood framed ordinary
  • communicut
  • salt - salt-pan
  • cove
  • herd
  • fodder
  • mado
  • the crystal detector
  • faulty borders
  • a layer of liquid water
  • un-transmitted-data
  • illusions of connectivity
  • fabricity
  • for apartment and found objects
  • tape-snare-reeds
  • tourist
  • stairs
  • interference of objects
  • scores
  • pontoon
  • anchor space
  • e4 139
  • score for nissai theatre
  • allerdale 16mm
  • green dress
  • it's a matter of scale
  • forest manifesto
  • veer
  • ravenspurn
  • dial
  • desire lines
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  • NEWS
  • ARTIST STATEMENT __________________________
  • vegetal empathy
  • lichen canvas
  • brush
  • vast slender boundaries
  • Cam bi um flora
  • The Sound of Food
  • dep can gre sou chorus of contact
  • sour bay
  • ringtones project
  • soft maps
  • moss listening
  • machine equities
  • bell auto 2
  • magnified ear exhibition
  • tape snare wood glen
  • oh o salinity
  • oh o salinity scores
  • salinity in fall
  • stood framed ordinary
  • communicut
  • salt - salt-pan
  • cove
  • herd
  • fodder
  • mado
  • the crystal detector
  • faulty borders
  • a layer of liquid water
  • un-transmitted-data
  • illusions of connectivity
  • fabricity
  • for apartment and found objects
  • tape-snare-reeds
  • tourist
  • stairs
  • interference of objects
  • scores
  • pontoon
  • anchor space
  • e4 139
  • score for nissai theatre
  • allerdale 16mm
  • green dress
  • it's a matter of scale
  • forest manifesto
  • veer
  • ravenspurn
  • dial
  • desire lines
  • 5-short-films-from-topolo
  • earlier works
    • object
    • moments
    • mvh
    • faxfleet
  • further sound
  • publications
  • --------------------
  • murmuration
  • The Reticule Project
  • blog
  • cv
  • contact

exhibition / installation

Vegetal Empathy (test version) - Bristol - March 2025

curator - Let us Cook, Concertgebouw, Brugge, Belgium - March 2025

vast, slender boundaries - Rainy Days Festival, Luxembourg - November 2024

The Sound of Food - exhibition with Meli Berney, Kupfer Project Space, London - November 2024 

piano preparation object - Late Works: Preparations, San Mei Gallery, London - November / December 2024

soundwalk - Greenwich Park, London - October 2024

dep can gre sou / Chorus of Contact - RCA, London - June 2024

Oh O Salinity (film) - Aveiro Art House, Portugal - April 2024

Oh O Salinity (film) - Lusofona University, Lisbon - April 2024

Machine Equities - Lore, London - March 2024

Soft Maps - collaboration with Lily McCraith - online

We Marry You, O Sea (film by Sonia Levy with sound by me & Jez riley French) - TBA21, Venice & Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Madrid - Oct-Jan 2024

Communicut + Faulty Borders - APT Gallery - June 2023

Machine Equities - Here Becomes Elsewhere exhibition, Fabrica, Italy - Feb 2023

A Layer of Liquid Water - Divfuse, London - Aug 2022

OH O SALINITY - Humber Street Gallery, Hull - April - June 2022 + Hari Artspace, Hull - June - July 2022 + Lime Street Gallery, Newcastle - June - July 2022 + Burning Man Festival (USA) - Aug / Sept 2022 + Set Woolwich, London - Sept 2022

the crystal detector (with Jez riley French) - Burning Man Festival - Aug / Sept 2022

SALINITY IN FALL - Hancock Museum, Newcastle - May-June 2022

Forest Manifesto / Wakefire - If trees were lone women @ Sanctuary lab 21, galloway forest, scotland - september 2021

collaborative text with Jez riley French inc. in 'Expanded Listening' by Aura Satz - Drawing Room gallery,London - sept-oct 2021

HERD - Newcastle Uni (delayed degree show) - June 2021

FODDER + grid (blue) - Hatton Gallery, Newcastle - April 2021

island | fjorar - the crystal detector (texts, radio performance, score realisation) - Steklenik Gallery + Radio Slovenia Ars programme, Ljubljana - March 2021

various works - Heath & Hearth instagram exhibition for Creel Projects, March 2021

HERD grid - Baltic, Newcastle, UK - Feb - July 2021

FODDER rack - rePUBlic gallery, Blyth, UK - Feb - March 2021 

new work from 'herd' series - Hatton Gallery, Newcastle - March 2021

Tourist / Mado / Mirror Selfie - Times, online publication, 87 Gallery, UK - March 2021

mado (video/sound) - wave~fold5, online - February 2021

a layer of liquid water - spikersuppa lydgalleri, Oslo - January/February 2021

trough - Blyth - February/March 2021

ewer (soaks in) - Shipley Gallery - Jan-March 2021

un-transmitted data | interference of objects - Uni of Arts, Stockholm - October 2020

tape, snare, stones, shells, reeds - Audiosphere exhibition, Spain - October 2020 - January 2021

grid (blue) - system gallery, Newcastle - September 2020

SOA (participant in documentary film by Raquel Castro) - IndieLisboa - Aug-Sept 2020

e4/139 (video) - Sonic Curiosities, Berlin - Aug 2020

voice, tape, reeds, snare - spikersuppa lydgalleri, Oslo, Norway - Jan-feb 2020

ravenspurn - walking festival of sound, newcastle, uk - october 2019

three soundworks for 'Benjamin', Radio Papesse tram shelter transmission project, Florence, Italy - October 2019

ravenspurn - walking festival of sound, Stockholm, Sweden - September 2019

'illusions of connectivity' - exhibition & performance, Odense, June 2019

'tourist' / 'e4/139 / ravenspurn - screening at murmuration 2019, June 2019

'tourist' digital film installation, LevelOne gallery, Hamburg, May 2019

'tourist' & 'window' (films) - Iklectik art space, London - September 2018

'tourist' (installation) - paradise air, matsudo, japan april 2018

icelandic text pieces - as part of video to accompany a performance by Jez riley French - cafe oto, London Nov 2017

'Here we are' - soundwalk piece as part of the soundtrack installation to Burberry's exhibition of british photography at the Old Sessions House, London sept-oct 2017

he(a)r - collaborative installation by by Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir drawing on aspects of my text contribution to a collaborative score, alongside work by other artists on environment, place and sound - Sound + Environment conference, Hull University, June 2017 & Inter Arts Centre, Malmo, Sweden, September 2017

installation, tyneside gallery, newcastle - May 2017

'e4/139' film - Segnali film and performance festival Italy - May 2017

'e4/139' film - Fuse Art Space, Bradford - March 2017

'on the moor', collaboration with Micaela PB - Newcastle University - february 2017

'green dress' - newcastle University - January 2017

'ravenspurn I & II' films - The Coachhouse, Brighton - January 2017

'not much is a lot than can happen in fifteen minutes....its a matter of scale and position' - collaborative sound / video piece with Jez riley french - Newbridge Project, Newcastle - november 2016

'a lot can happen in fifteen minutes' collaborative performance of text piece by Helen Shaddock, Newbridge Project - november 2016

'forest manifesto' installation (projection, sound performance, stereoscope, polaroids, tape, objects), Newcastle University, September-October 2016

he(a)r - installation by by Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir (Nordic Affect) drawing on aspects of my text contribution to a collaborative score, alongside work by other artists on environment, place and sound - Nordic Music Days, reykjavik, Iceland, September 2016 / Transistor, Sweden, November 2016

'veer' installation and book (with audio content), Hull School or Art and Design, June 2016

collaborative score with Jez riley French for the Fresh Yorkshire Aires commission, exhibition at Bank Street Arts (Sheffield) & Munro House (Leeds), June 2016 (also archived at the British Music Collection)

dial # 1 & 2 - a happy medium group show, Leeds, February 2016

'moment # 1' - film - screened at the One Minute Film Festival, Hull, UK, November 2015

'a quiet position - road # 2' assistant to curator, JrF - End Of The Road Festival, Dorset, UK, September 2015 '

'desire lines' & 'dial' - works exhibited as part of group show, Hull, UK, June 2015

moments' (silent) - film selected for screening at 'The Programme' festival of art film, Lancaster University, UK, March 2015

a quiet position - road' - (installation), assistant to curator, JrF - End Of The Road Festival, Dorset, UK, August 2014 

a quiet position - beacons' (audio screening), assistant to curator, JrF - Beacons Festival, Skipton, UK, July-August 2014

'architecture naturalle' - (projected images to accompany live sound diffusion by JrF) - Stazione Di Topolo Arts Festival, Italy, July 2014

digital print exhibition (photographic prints) - Stazione Di Topolo Arts Festival, Italy, July 2014

'five short films from Topolo' (film) - online, 2014

'a quiet position - Topolo' (projected images to accompany live sound diffusion by JrF) - Stazione Di Topolo, Italy, July 2013


sound / performance

'shape placing' - object score for piano - Cafe Oto, London, UK - June 2025

'The Sheer Frost Orchestra' - Rainy Days Festival, Luxembourg - November 2024

Cam.bi.um (flora): Reclamation of Place - Pearson Park Greenhouse, Hull Jazz Festival - November 2024

The Sound of Food - with Meli Berney - Kupfer Gallery, London - November 2024

live performance - Nunhead Chapel, London - August 2024

sour bay - Fabrica30 festival, Italy - July 2024

live set - Ursunate, London - June 2024

live set (sour bay) - Boulderdash all-dayer, London - June 2024

live set - Taco!, London - May 2024

live set - melt sessions, London - March 2024

moss listening - Sonic Acts Biennale, Amsterdam - February 2024

sour bay - Matsudo Science Art Festival, Japan - Ocotber 2023

moss listening with Jez riley French - Matsudo Science Art Festival. Japan - October 2023

performance with Jez riley French & Toshi Nakamura - Permian, Tokyo, Japan - October 2023

moss/water/bell - Crossovers Collective, London 2023

performance - APT Gallery, London 2023

performance at Tides, Avalon Cafe, London - August 2022

oh o salinity - Humber Street Gallery, Hull, 26th May 2022 & Hari Art Space, July 2022

cove -new fixed media work + live performance piece - Making Tracks tour, oct / Nov 2021

summit (low) with Jez riley French - Sound Scotland, Aberdeen - october 2021


'entice new normality' - photographic / text score - CiVA, Brussels - July / August 2021

HERD - 4 channel sound piece as part of HERD installation - Newcastle University, June 2021

the crystal detector (performance) - steklenik gallery, Ljubljana & Radio Slovenia Ars programme - March 2021

score for listening #100 - realisation with Jez riley French - QR code in Steklenik pdf booklet

voicemail project (artist / curator) - collaboration with Micaela Perrot-Barnaby - Spring 2021

contributor to the 90 track initiative, raising funds for organisations that educate / promote gender minorities in sound culture.

'entice new normality' - photographic/text score - GMEA, France - June 2020

'entice new normality' - photographic / text score - Standard, Milan - 2020

'entice new normality' - photographic / text score - Q-02, Brussels - 2020

3 sound pieces - Borealis Festival Radio Space, Norway - March 2020

'Climate Symphony' (contributed field recordings) - CPH:DOX, Denmark - March 2020

projected text pieces from 'crystal detector' - hyperobjects (opening evening), Catalyst Arts, Belfast, november 2019

'proposition IV (squid)' by Alison Knowles - group performance, Newcastle, October 2019

recordings from Scotland & extracts from the 'interference of objects' series - part of the programme 'a quiet position - species' for Art Licks Weekend, October 2019

multiple sound works - The Dark Outside radio broadcast event, June 2019

'cooking with fabric' performance, LevelOne gallery, Hamburg, May 2019 

several sound works - Radiophrenia broadcast festival, Glasgow centre for contemporary art - May 2019

'territory' & 'interference of objects # 1' - Borealis Festival Radio Programme - march 2019

'interference of objects' - collaboration with Jez riley French, Fort Process, Newhaven, UK - September 2018

'summit in brilliant pink' & 'caster be a n ticks' - released as part of 'murmuration # 1' online compilation album

seven sound pieces - online at The Lake radio station, Denmark - august 2018 onwards
(http://thelakeradio.com/)

improvisation with Jez riley French, paradise air, matsudo, japan - April 2018

'interference of objects' - collaboration with Jez riley French, Ftarri, Tokyo, Japan - April 2018

'forest manifesto' & 'ravenspurn' - radiophrenia - november 2017

'ceramic dissolves' - performance with Jez riley French at Made in Korea exhibition as part of the British Ceramics Biennial, Stoke, UK - September 2017

'a quiet position - orford ness' - curated radio broadcast on resonance fm & streamed at framework - july 2017 onwards

filmed durational performance, collaboration with Lucy & Jorge Orta - 'Raft of the Medussa', Humber Street Gallery, Hull - June 2017

several recordings and an improvisation - websynradio, france - june 2017

collaborative improvisation - BBC radio 3 exposure - April 2017

performance with sound workshop participants and Jez riley French, culture lab, Newcastle University, February 2017

performance by the mushroom band, culture lab, Newcastle University, January 2017

'typewriter desire' solo performance / text / photography, Newcastle, October,2016

'0112, 1022' collaborative performance, Newcastle University, October, 2016

extract from 'veer | compact (118)' text piece as part of h e (a) r installation by Halla Stefansdottir, Nordic Music Days, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2016

'score for nissei theatre' graphic score with realisations, audio download

text from 'veer' series 'compact | 118' as collaborative score with Jez riley French for the Fresh Yorkshire Aires commission, exhibition, book and performances at Bank Street Arts (Sheffield) & Munro House (Leeds), June 2016 (also archived at the British Music Collection)

member of re-con analogue synth ensemble / performance at The Tetley, Leeds, June 2016

'portable music (three scores) - assistant on 'score for a locale (topolo) with Jez riley French published on Touchline, March 2016

score for nissai theatre (tokyo) - performance with Jez riley French - a happy medium group show, Leeds, February 2016

'faxfleet - interactions' - audio piece at Kinokophone, The British Library, UK, May 2015

selected films - projections as part of 'Other Worlds' festival of experimental sound art, Blackpool, UK, April 2015

Raft of the Medusa (Lucy & Jorge Orta) - performer,Humber Street Gallery, Hull, UK 2015

'five short films from Topolo' (film) - exhibited at Stazione Di Topolo Arts Festival, Italy, July 2014


residencies  /  workshops


murmuration #6 - sounding objects - Scotland, June 2025

residency / artist talk - Simultan/Semi-Silent/Sonic Narratives - Timisoara, Romania - October 2024

field listening / recordingworkshop - Fabrica30 festival - Italy - July 2024

murmuration #5 - transmit - Scotland, May/June 2024

residency - Paradise Air, Japan - October 2023

murmuration #4 - performing place - Scotland, June 2023

Fabrica - Italy - September 2022 - February 2023

listening / scores - Gallery 82, Hull - August 2022

residency - murmuration # 3 (species), Scotland - June 2022

creative retreat residency - BrittenPears Art, Aldeburgh - february 2022

residency - Cove Park - October 2021

residency - steklenik gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia - 2021

mini-residency - vasternorrland, Sweden - September 2019

residency - Paradise Air, Matsudo, Japan - April 2018

cameraless film / 16mm film workshop - Allerdale film farm, Cumbria, August 2017

residency - Agosto foundation, Prague, Czech Republic, August 2017

located sound workshop performance with nine fine art students from Newcastle University, Culture Lab, Newcastle - Feb 2017

residency - Topolo, Italy, July 2014 

residency - Topolo, Italy, July 2013


publications

cardboard beaded sym::etry (engraved glass / Breton Cassette)

cove - mini-album - download

ringtones project volume #1 - Matsudo ring-tones - collaboration with Jez riley French

sour is not a sour tasting word (Paradise Air residency activities) - PDF

The Sound of Food (book / PDF) - collaborative project with Meli Berney

scores for listening (selection) in The Pluralist magazine - July 2023

oh o salinity - booklet & download - June 2022

windows tape release (Presque Tout) - July 2022

'entice new normalities' (score) in 'Walking fr[m Scores' (Les Presses Du Réel)

over borders #2 - PDF publication (curator & contributor) - June 2021

/ˈhʌmbər/ (scores for listening) - PDF publication, collaboration with Jez riley French


2 new scores for listening, for 'over borders' PDF publication - Walking Festival of Sound - April 2021

score for listening #100 - realisation with Jez riley French - QR code in Steklenik pdf booklet

score for listening - entice new normality - march 2020

text pieces (scores for listening) - Ós (Icelandic Arts Journal) - Feb 2020

'the performative object' - dissertation, March 2019

selections from 'ten postcards' & 'tourist' - verdure engraved issue 2018(2)

'koderjana' collaboration with Natasa Kramberger

'wild green dress' - verdure engraved issue 2018(1)

inclusion in Robstolk (amsterdam) book of photographic works from Tate Modern Art Book Fair (August 2016)

'veer' (with audio content) 48 page saddle stitched book (sold out) / download

cover, frontispiece for 'verdure engraved' pdf zine - 2015 ongoing

cover, frontispiece and image series in 'verdure engraved - 2016 issue # 1' pdf arts zine, March 2016

album artwork for 'portable music' by Jez riley French published on Touchline, March 2016

interview with images - Robida magazine issue 1, Italy, 2015

'desire lines' 40 page book, saddle stitched '

dial' (photographic work feb - april 2015) 28 page book, saddle stitched 

'four from tended' - published in the autumn issue of verdure engraved pdf arts magazine, october 2014

'reflection on process in sound' - photographic images to accompany an article by JrF - online curated publication '

'sur le dessous à l'intérieur | on beneath the inside' - digital album artwork, eg056 engraved glass, 2013

'in the field' book (photography) - cover image and artist portrait, Uniform Books / London Collage of Communication, 2013

'Wandelweiser und so weiter' (photography) - cd box set sleeve and booklet photography, at56 Another Timbre, 2012




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