Installation

Installations

In addition to my video work which can be seen on other pages on this site and my photographic work which can be seen on my other site, I have also produced 3D work and installations. This page presents some of the work I have produced that  incorporates video and TVs into 3D installations.

_{Smash installed at the Sion Hill Gallery in Bath}

_{Video installations. Swarm (left) and Procession (right) shown on damaged TV screens. Sion Hill, Interim Show, Bath.}

To many consumers, the television is one of their most valued consumer items. Its status in our homes often places it centre stage with all other furniture positioned in honour of it.  Each year new models appear offering greater size or higher resolution diminishing the perceived value of the old model. The days of the TV repairman are long-gone, the large size of these screens makes them vulnerable to accidental damage and sadly, replacement is easier and cheaper than repair.

The installations on this page incorporate consumer damaged TV sets, flawed symbols of our throwaway society which present the viewer with degraded and pixelated images of the endless flow of goods and the consumption of finite resources.

_{Swarm. Installation, damaged plasma TVs, metal frame}

In Swarm, the two plasma screens, face each other at approximately 30cm apart, making it impossible to see the image properly forcing the viewer to view from the side or even place their head between the two displays.

_{Swarm. Installation, damaged plasma TVs, metal}

_{Two damaged TV sets playing looped video}

In the video below, two damaged screens play videos showing the movement of goods on ships in a continuous loop.

The ‘video wall’ below employs 4 damaged TV sets arranged in a grid playing a single video staggered across the array. The installation style mimics the multiscreen ‘media wall’ often seen in commercial spaces to sell products, services or opinions. Large banks of screens are also used by share traders whose decisions often impact on people and ecosystems across the globe.

_{4 damaged TV sets showing video playing across all screens}

The video below is of a two screen projection which was produced as part of the final project of my MA. The video was split using the projection mapping application Madmapper and projected on to two screens at 120 degrees to each other.

_{Exhibition at Locksbrook Road in Bath, showing ‘Supply and Demand’ a multi-projector piece}

Metalwork

Steel is often used in my work to support screens or to create standalone objects. In the sculpture below (Untitled), I wanted to use the material to create a large (4M high) unstable shape. Sea water was used to rust the steel.

_{Untitled, steel (4 meters high), Locksbrook Gallery, Bath}

_{Untitled. Close up of tip of spike on floor, Locksbrook Gallery, Bath}

_{Video setting up MA final exhibition, Bath}