From the Book to the Book
This group show at Offshoot Gallery considered the fading presence of the book in everyday life, and sought to find new freedoms for the book.
Render Permanent
A group show with Zanny Mellor and Kasper Pincis at Lewisham ArtHouse, in which the limits and promises of permanence were questioned.
At World’s End
This two-person show at Backroom Gallery with Arthur Laidlaw functioned as a conversation between word and image and the frailties of each.
Secrets on the Way
A group show at Sluice HQ with Hannah Fletcher, Athene Greig, and Seungwon Jung, which approached the limits of media and substrate.
The Idea of Absence
A residency with Simon Head at St John’s Church, Bethnal Green, resulted in this response to silence and last things at Lumen Studios, in the crypt beneath the church.
That Burning Field
This exhibition with Simon Head at Half.Life took the American poet Charles Wright’s notion of the negative sublime as raw material.
Exit Ghost
The fading physical presence of media represents a profound break with past modes of consumption, distribution, exchange and storage of culture.
Seeking to explore the declining role of tangible media as containers of culture and guardians against future uncertainty, Exit Ghost transforms and disturbs these media by ignoring their content, focusing instead on the performance of surface. Presenting medium minus message this series explores surface as narrative, in order to reveal the last traces of media as a physical entity (“Appearing as disappeared”) and a cultural residue.
The images are created by the physical movement of mass-market media - books, CDs and DVDs - during scanning. Through this confusion the flatbed scanner re-performs these objects, leaving an image that is the residue of the soon-to-be-obsolete scanner’s incomprehension, transforming the tangible into digital rumour.