These selected photographs are the result of my continued collaboration with Gavin Joynt.   Our focus still remains on the quality of luminosity and the creation of space within our works.

We have started to explore film making alongside our photographs, and this has provided us with more options and more subtlety than we first thought.

If you are interested in seeing more of our work together follow links to  Lightworks(1), (2) and Reflection on Space (5) and (4)

This is a wonderful short film about ‘The Lost Cuckoo’ project that happened last summer.

It covers the experimental workshops in schools with families, the process myself and 2hD Architects went through to design the cardboard module(box).  It also highlights the successful pubic involvement of 1000 people building incredible structures over two days at Whee! Lakeside’s International Children’s Dance and Theatre Festival.

I have just completed working for Nottinghamshire NHS Trust on a really successful ‘in reach’ project at Arnold Lodge, as part of their Arts in Health program.

The patients created very powerful artworks from DNA facial peels to theatre gel illustrations.  They were all encouraged to experiment with controlling light through projection and shadow work.

We explored lighting interiors, working with LED lights and using OHP’s to help create very different moods and outcomes.

I have just run a workshop with Trish Evans for the ‘Beyond Words’ conference on behalf of the Arts Award scheme.  All the people attended were arts advisor’s looking for ways to explore documentation and evidence without words.

Gavin Joynt and I have curated an exhibition of new photography in collaboration with The Civic, Barnsley.  This exhibition is available for touring. If you are interested in booking this please contact David Sinclair at The Civic.

After such a bumper season of apples, I have cleared an area and planted some beautiful varieties. Can you call planting 6 trees an orchard?

Walking in the woods and picking mushrooms for breakfast.

Here are the results of my latest baking.  Barley sourdough, spelt soda bread and baguettes makes the soul transcend paperwork and staring at a screen.  (Note to self) Build a clay oven.

Tom (2hD) and I recently explored the notion of temporary actions involving the boxes we had created for the Lost Cuckoo Project.  We went looking for urban spaces to inhabit. With stealth and an awareness of scale and perspective, we found ourselves unpacking the boxes from within the car.

We were fueled by the light and the relationship the boxes had to the other objects and structures.  What this might mean for future collaborations with 2hD, we can only wonder.   We had a go in this inspiring tunnel in the Park, Nottingham.  The boxes eventually fell.

Gavin Joynt and I have just been out in the fields near Clumber Park, continuing to develop a new photographic series entitled ‘Lightworks‘.

These are just a selection of the images we created with more focus on luminosity and developing dynamic content.

Thanks to the park rangers for being so understanding and interested in what we were trying to achieve with our DIY photography kit.