Stitching soft matter – The Book!

Stitching soft matter is an artist book featuring performances of touch, drawing, sewing, photography, pandemic touch journals, pull-out scores and a short essay on touch touching itself. This project continued throughout the pandemic and the book has become a place to share all the materials and relationships developed during this time. It feels good to have something to share and hand to people in the physical world… Book launch on 31 January at ARC, University of Read More

11 Jan 2023 | Browse: , , , ,

centre for material thinking commission

I have been engaged in an unfolding processual work with the Afon Dulais river that flows close to my home since 2006, a practice of listening to the river’s shifting seasonal frequencies whilst attempting to materialise these in sound. Immersing myself physically within the river I use the machinic sensitivity of a Fender Stratocaster to allow places of eddy, surface movement and interference in the river’s body to express themselves through the guitar’s strings. I am interested in Read More

20 Jun 2022 | Browse: , , ,

Snag workshop – Harlech

Snag – a movement workshop with Cai Tomos and Simon Whitehead on Harlech beach Saturday 9th April 11am-4.30pm Cai Tomos & Simon Whitehead have known each other for many years, they first met on Harlech beach in 1996 during a movement workshop that Simon was facilitating. In this new workshop they return to Harlech to share a recent collaborative practice, ‘Snag’. Snag has developed during the pandemic, it is a live process of moving in relationship Read More

5 Apr 2022 | Browse: , , ,

stand by me

Back in November this was an invitation to take part in a collective act of solidarity…   Over the duration of COP26(1-12 November 2021)we invite you to spend some time with a tree or stand of trees close to where you live; to stand by, to eat your lunch with, to listen to or to lie beneath. Plant life is a crucial part of our shared cosmology, trees continue to be threatened, felled, diseased by the effects Read More

31 Jan 2022 | Browse: , , ,

TURN – a score for the long nights

  ‘The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think.’ Virginia Woolf. January 18th. 1915. Turn towards the darkness As dusk arrives Turn off the lights, place a lighted candle in the window walk into the nighttime eventually, when the darkness has absorbed you, and you it, turn, walk back towards the candle light when you arrive, blow out the candle, move in the darkness- feel its Read More

7 Jan 2022 | Browse: , ,

Re-pair videos

The Re-pair videos are now available on youtube, 3 short films with dance artists Amaara Raheem and Joanna Young, Simon Ellis and Saffy Setohy, Jennifer Monson and Neil Callaghan. Made during lockdown in March and April 2021 the films provide a window into the dancers lives and their attempts to perform touch together in all the awkwardness, beauty and sadness of the times.  

26 Jul 2021 | Browse: , , ,