Summing up the year 2025, it was busy! Lots of new things and different ways of working which necessitated some time away from making to thinking about making. now, I have a new impetus and some different ideas of how to proceed. A main thing is to continue my thoughts of not bringing any new materials into the world especially those that cannot be disposed of sustainably so using recycled materials and those I already have will be a feature. I want to create more slowly, to really make my work meaningful. This doesn’t mean I can’t play anymore!
2026 will see the essay, The Moon, published in Alessandra Calanchi’s new book Far from the Eyes. The essay explores all the implications of my artwork, The Moon from its recording location on a beach used as a landing place during WWII in Normandy to its location in a church in Caen. It covers aspects of time in relation to the visitors’ presence and the universe and to the intimate relationship of the moon to menstrual cycles.
It will also see the publication of a collaborative paper, Sound in the Extended Moment, with Anke Haun (DE) in Forumklanglandschaft’s conference publication, Ways of Listening. In addition, there will be a discussion of the accompanying artwork.
2025 was a busy year from the aforementioned conference at the University of Catania Catania, Sicily with the participatory drawing, Acoustical imagery and paper, Sound in the extended moment with Anke Haun (DE). The journey from Nottingham to Sicily was made by bus, train, ferry and foot with the great pleasure of walking across the border from France to Italy. This deepens my long-standing research into borders.
Offshoot was a residency & exhibition using sculpture & sound with German artist, Margit Rusert (https://margit-rusert.de) took place at Broadway Gallery, Nottingham and many thanks for the support of Near Now (nearnow.org.uk) at Broadway. Using cast-off wiring as the basis for the sculpture, we aimed to look at biodiversity of plant forms and used sound to amplify what may be being lost in the world today.
At Artcore Gallery’s RR 30th Anniversary exhibition, I presented The Forgotten & Dear Passengers. Dear Passengers was a performative drawing created during a journey from Nottingham to Osnabrück in 2024 for Artcore Gallery, Derby (artcoreuk.com). This was accompanied by a triangle of sound mad during the journey. This work was also shown at Encounters, Surface Gallery, Nottingham where I now have a studio.