Practice-led Outcome

Even though I was accepted onto the PhD programme with a Scholarship, in the Scottish practice-led PhD system it is usual for researchers in their first year to be classed as MPhil students with a transfer to PhD after one year. For this transfer to take place students have to make a presentation of their work, give a brief talk and write a paper of around 10,000 words. Next week I will present some of my practical work in a public setting, the details of which I’ve listed below. After this I will be concentrating on my transfer paper for which I have been given a six-month extension. To view some stills of the processes involved in making the work ( a Domestic Submarine and series of Pools) follow the link below. There is also a link to my previous light projection onto the paper roof at Mills Observatory, this will give you an idea of the scale that I like to work towards.

Triple site installation/performance opening FridayOctober 19th 2007 at 7.30pm. LIGHT PROJECTION AND UNDERWATER PERFORMANCE at Forfar swimming pool also on
opening night at 7pm.

The Exhibition runs for one month.

First part of the project is a performance in Forfar swimming pool. A theatre-light projection of wallpaper will be shone into the dimmed pool. I will be swimming in the water through the decorative immersed domestic space attempting to sit on a chair and set the table for tea. This will be filmed from both underneath the water and above.

Second part is a joint exhibition with Andrea Sayers in the Meffan Institute, Forfar where my DOMESTIC SUBMARINE will be installed. DOMESTIC SUBMARINE is a shelter from the sea of electromagnetic ‘noise’ that surrounds us at all times, once inside one becomes invisible to radio and microwave radiation.

Running alongside this exhibition/performance is a sattelite installation in the upper gallery at Arbroath Library. The installation is entitled POOLS and is a series of low-level pools filled with
water and domestic soap powder. A strangely surreal environment is created by the use of ultraviolet lights which cause the phosphorus in the solution to glow. The attractive yet increasingly uncomfortable nature of the installation references J G Ballard’s Myths of the Near Future where the characters start to merge with the energy of their surroundings after exposure to high levels of ultraviolet light

Opening evening at the Meffan Institute, Forfar, Friday 19th October 2007,

Your support as always will be welcome and appreciated.