Installation
Moving Image Works
Supplied as installation DVD with installation instructions and archive copies
in DVD-RAM and DV-CAM.
Talking to walls. 1998 - Five copies with resale and public
exhibition rights - £7000.00 each copy.
Wrap. 2004 - Five copies with resale and public exhibition
rights £7000.00 each copy.
Film Works
Supplied as viewable DVD with archive copies in DVD-RAM and DV-CAM.
Merge. 2000. Duration 6.5 min. Five copies with resale and
public exhibition rights. £7000.00 each copy.
Wash. 2001. Duration 2.5 min. Five copies with resale and
public exhibition rights. £7000.00 each copy.
Monkey. 2005. Duration 3min 26 sec. Five copies with resale
and public exhibition rights. £7000.00 each copy.
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Merge
Large landscape installation on the Coastal Dunes, The Balmedie Project Aberdeenshire 2000
In August 2000 I built
a large installation on a beach on the Balmedie coastline in North East Scotland.
This was part of the Balmedie project and was a private initiative set up
by a local landowner. I constructed a 100-meter long sculpture made out of
Maram grass, the Grass planted on the dunes to conserve them. I got permission
from the park ranger to take Maram grass from a cultivated plot some miles
away. I planted the grass in a series of 5 – 6 ft. long ladder shapes
linked together at angles across an accessible stretch of beach joining the
edge of the sea and the tops of the dunes.
At the time of making this installation work, while I was documenting its
progress day by day, I was struck by the sheer physicality involved in making
the work. The grass had to be gathered at one site and replanted at another.
These sites were miles apart and it took two weeks to make the work during
which I camped at the site. This physicality seemed in stark contrast to the
actual documentary evidence of the experience. The epic journey and the slow
progress up the length of the beach could only be seen in seemingly immaterial
film footage taken during the making of the work. This work highlighted the
materiality of the experience through the immateriality of the film medium
and the ability for the experience of a journey to result in the artwork.