August 18, 2022
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Mum Nests 2021
Ideas as they percolate
Time passed in nature
Lake clay
Chrysanthemum flowers
Tree branch limbs
Passing time
Archive
December 6, 2019
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Grass Globes 2018-2019
Grass Globes | September 2018 – March 2019
Marlborough College Artist in Residence garden
Seed idea, September, Lockridge Common
One afternoon in September, when the grass was freshly cut, and after I had played with the grass at Lockridge Common, I made thirty-three globe shapes, placing each one on a patio stone. I documented them over a six month period, watching them breakdown, becoming muddy and sloppy. In the spring I gathered what was left to gleefully discover that they had made a permanent ‘clean’ mark on the stones.
September 16, 2018
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Globes 2017 – 2019
Globes | Ongoing project | 2017-2019
1 – 3 Haida Gwaii Museum British Columbia, Canada
4 – 5 Earthskin Muriwai Beach, New Zealand
6 – 8 Sitka Center for Art & Ecology Oregon, USA
9 Cultureland Amsterdam/Starnmeer Netherlands
10 – 14 Marlborough College Wiltshire, UK
1 Eelgrass Globe
2 Kelp Globe
3 Sea Lettuce Globe
4 Mud Globe
5 Black Sand Globe
6 Experimental Forest Globe
7 Reflections Globe
8 Welcome Globe
9 Parachute Globe
10 Bay leaf Globe
11 Bark Globe
12 Oak Leaf Globe
13 Seed Pod Globe
14 Tulip Petal Globe
May 14, 2018
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Momentary Interventions 2017
Momentary interventions are my way of making tangible an ongoing love affair with the natural world. To create with nature is to enter into a particular realm for an undetermined period of non-time. These moments are precious, often resulting in bright new ideas for fleshing out work in the studio.
The Forest Births an Island
Sitka Center for Art & Ecology
Oregon, USA January 2018
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Birthing Infinity
Experimental Forest, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology
Oregon, USA January 2018
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Monkey Tree Vessel
Nikau Palm Forest, Muriwai, New Zealand | September 2017
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Horopito Line
Forest walk, Muriwai, NewZealand | September 2017
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Impatience Patience
Lake Huron, Ontario | August 2017
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Brugmansia Pi
Lake Huron | August 2017
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Burn Line
Haida Gwaii | July 2017
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I Love Stone & Circles & Andy G
Cornwall, UK | May 2016
September 16, 2017
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Tidal Marking 2017
Marking the tide
Using the sea to observe the passing of time
Seaweed set in the crevices made by the incoming/outgoing tide
Tides as marking time and seeing the pattern as familiar to land
Trees, branches, river paths
Haida Gwaii Museum
Artist in Residence, July 2017
August 16, 2017
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Grass Works 2014
Grass works
Ten week span, summer on Mayne Island, Canada 2014
Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, it is estimated that 83 species of mammals, 113 species of birds, 23 species of amphibians and reptiles, 23 species of fish, about 100 species of invertebrates, and over 350 species of plants have become extinct. The rate of extinction is somewhere between 1,000 to 10,000 times greater than the natural rate previous to this time period, which was 2 to 10 species per year.
Over the summer, I watched these grass balls fade away, the paper being torn at and salvaged by birds for their nests and I wondered how little of nature we are aware of and if we saw more obvious and direct signs of degradation, would we change our minds, our actions, our lifestyles?