Participatory Projects
I work relationally in both my research psychology and training career and with my art practice. In my staged photographs and mixed-media works I utilise playful, experimental processes with every-day materials to make open ended images and objects that allow for subjective responses. Focussing on the positive states of not knowing, I hope people can relate to these works and come back and look at them in different ways over time and therefore I'm interested in inviting dialogue with the work. In some exhibitions I've invited viewers to share their responses with each for the duration of the show, or work together to complete a jigsaw.
The shared responses are detailed below:-
The shared responses are detailed below:-
Uncertainties
I included participatory elements in two solo shows of my staged photographic Uncertainties series for the British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Dublin in 2008 (curated by Professor Catherine Loveday, Westminster University) and the Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham in 2005 (curated by Alex Boyd Jones). Viewers of the artworks were invited to share with each other what they saw in the images on post its under the work (BPS) or luggage labels (Mac). The artist book below documents these responses.
I included participatory elements in two solo shows of my staged photographic Uncertainties series for the British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Dublin in 2008 (curated by Professor Catherine Loveday, Westminster University) and the Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham in 2005 (curated by Alex Boyd Jones). Viewers of the artworks were invited to share with each other what they saw in the images on post its under the work (BPS) or luggage labels (Mac). The artist book below documents these responses.
Rural Idyll 2
A week long residency on a working sheep farm in Suffolk during lambing time, curated by Ruth Richmond & Jax Horswill (2011).
For the resulting exhibition I produced photographic jigsaws which audiences were invited to help each other complete over four weekends that gently subverted the ‘chocolate box’ imagery of the countryside, presenting an obvious disparity with the reality of livestock farming.
The artist-made Ravensburger jigsaws are available on sale for £75.00 with a donation for each sale going to the Trussell Trust.
A week long residency on a working sheep farm in Suffolk during lambing time, curated by Ruth Richmond & Jax Horswill (2011).
For the resulting exhibition I produced photographic jigsaws which audiences were invited to help each other complete over four weekends that gently subverted the ‘chocolate box’ imagery of the countryside, presenting an obvious disparity with the reality of livestock farming.
The artist-made Ravensburger jigsaws are available on sale for £75.00 with a donation for each sale going to the Trussell Trust.
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View Finder
Artist-in-Residence for Barking, Havering & Redbridge NHS Trust (2006). Patient and staff led, Viewfinder was a £10k Landscape Photography project with patients and staff of a large Cancer Ward in which we worked to latest research guidelines that recommend the use of large-scale landscape artworks to help reduce patient anxiety levels in health care settings. Where possible patients and their relatives accompanied me to determine the exact location of their chosen view. Views chosen included Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, Hayle Beach, Cornwall, The Gower Peninsula and Norfolk Coast. The final large scale photographs are permanently installed in the Cancer unit in perspex frames along with simple captions stating the place of the view, why it was chosen and the name of the person selecting it. |
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