Lumen: School of Light

Dancing with Sirius: lines of light, Lumen: School of Light @ Ugly Duckling, Bermondsey, London 3 – 5 February 2017
Invisible lines made visible through photographs of Sirius, the brightest star, taken on the summit of Cerro Tololo in the Chilean Andes during my artist residency. Following Sirius with handheld camera, random choreographic gestures were drawn in the air creating ephemeral ghost-like threads in the night sky.
Photographic installation of 17 mounted matt black prints on Hahnemuhle photo rag (24 x 30cm & 24 x 60cm) total 150 x 150 cm.

 

Big Deal No7: Space

Big Deal No7: Space @ Q-PARK 39, London 1 – 10 December 2016
Exhibiting The Eyes of Argus, the Submillimeter Array (SMA) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, detecting light of colour that is not visible to the human eye.
Artlyst quotes: ‘A spectacular multimedia group exhibition in a multi-storey underground car park situated in the heart of Soho’s West End over the period of 10 days…It is an amalgamation of imaginary ideas and processes related and created as a response to the genre of Science Fiction, this exhibition features work in the media of sculpture, photography, painting, film, video and audio installations by some 100 international artists and guest students from RCA.’
Archival Giclee print mounted on Dibond  (aluminium & composite board) 75 x 100 cm.

VOID

VOID @ St John on Bethnal Green, London  21 June – 7 July  2016
Artists: Louise Beer, Jane Grisewood, John Hooper, Rebecca Huxley, Melanie King, Joshua Space and  Sarah Sparkes. Talk from Chris Welch, Professor of Space
Engineering at the International Space University in Strasbourg, France.
   

My Black on Black: series of 22 drawings plus one wall hanging explore darkness, blackness – the void – through different black paints on black paper (31 x 31 each/ installation 190  x 126cm; wall hanging 250 x 150cm). Black Hole series: 20 photographs present a typology of voids found in numerous locations around the world (21 x 21cm each / installation 164 x 135cm).  Blacker than Black:  The optical black surface was developed specially for space telescopes and satellites as it absorbs almost all light (30 x 30cm) .

Transit of Mercury

UCL Observatory, Mill Hill, London, 9 May 2016
At the observatory as an artist-in-residence it was thrilling to witness the transit of Mercury. Mercury is seen as a tiny black dot crossing the vast majestic red sun, our nearest star. My photograph was taken outside with a Sony compact camera through H-alpha filter on the Solarscope.

Aether #3 London

Aether#3 @ Imperial College, London, 29 April – 23 May 2016

The artists, using various processes, explore seemingly unrepresentable and unimaginable phenomena in outer space. I am exhibiting Accretion: black hole & quasar, comprising two drawings, with co-curators  Melanie King and Louise Beer, and Emma Backlund, Myka Baum, Marianne Bjornmyr, Lucy Eldridge, Susan Eyre, Adam Ferris, Michaela French, Zanny Mellor, Lisa Pettibone, and Himali Singh Soin.
Accretion: black hole & quasar reflects positive and negative, stillness and movement. Ink on paper, each 40 x 50 cm.

 

 

 

Aether #2 Berlin

Aether #2 Berlin @ Jarvis Dooney Galerie, Berlin
20 February – 2 April 2016

Aether, co-curated by Melanie King, Louise Beer and gallery owner Michael Dooney, brought together 14 international artists who share a fascination with the universe and beyond.  Using various methods of photography they explore relationships between astronomy, matter, time and space.
Exhibitors: Louise Beer, Lauren Franklin, Michaela French, Jane Grisewood, Katie Goodwin, Osheen Harruthoonyan, Jaden Hastings, Barry W. Hughes, Melanie King, Clare Krouzecky, Casey Moore, Sophy Rickett, Kate Robertson, Maija Tammi.
My Black Light: Eclipse print sequence traces the moon crossing the sun during an annular solar eclipse, taken on 20 May 2012, 17:31pm to 8:38pm, at the McMath-Pierce solar telescope on Kitt Peak while artist-in-residence at NOAO, Arizona, USA.
Nine Giclee prints (30 x 24cm), edition of ten.

Double Vision

Double Vision (on-going project)
Through the Brownie 127 project devised by Cally Trench, the Double Vision series emerged. The 127 introduced in 1952, provided a perfect opportunity to work with the qualities of the analogue camera and darkroom processes, with a focus on light and dark, positive and negative, doubles and multiplies, while responding to content and composition.
Gelatin silver prints (positive and negative); 127 Rera Pan 100 ISO B/W film; 24 x 30cm (30 x 40cm with mount); Edition of 10 (each).