Exhibitions, etc..
FILMING BRAINLAND
Act 1 Scene 7 and the danced prelude to Act 2 of our opera Brainland was rehearsed at Morley College and filmed at the Old Operating Theatre Museum, London on 23-24th October 2023. The film was premiered at the Toronto Experimental Dance and Music Film Festival in July 2024 and won the award for best story.
THE BRAINLAND PODCAST
The podcast mingled neuroscience with the arts and humanities. The first episode was recorded in April 2023 and thirty episodes have been recorded by July 2024 featuring guests from a wide range of disciplines.
THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF EEG EVIDENCE IN A UK LAW COURT: A cautionary tale.
Psychiatric Bulletin, January 2023.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-bulletin/article/first-appearance-of-eeg-evidence-in-a-uk-court-of-law-a-cautionary-tale/9D97D5564586762599DBA680D61C994D#:~:text=Electroencephalogram-based%20evidence%20was%20accepted%20in%20a%20UK%20law,and%20parallels%20with%20more%20recent%20technologies%20are%20highlighted.
WAVECRAFT: Messages from another world.
A live webinar on the early history of the EEG and current research, for Harplands Hospital, Stoke on Trent.
BRAINLAND THE OPERA
A collaboration with Stephen Brown, Andrew Platman and Heather Angus Leppan, first full draft completed and website created December 2020. An exhibition of designs, models and dioramas was to take place from November 2020 – January 2021 at the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square in London but has been deferred due to Covid-19.
BRAIN INJURY STORIES.
Performance, September 2019, Tolworth Hospital, London.
ONE EVENING and LOOKING ACROSS THE RIVER
Two poems by William Stafford read and illustrated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CbUVqyolX8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCLi8yT4304
THE PREPARATION OF BONE GLUE
A series of stop-motion animations inspired by the 1920 collage by Max Ernst. (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+preparation+of+bone+glue).
Screened at the North Florida Animation Festival, Tallahassee, June, 2019.
THE MESSAGES by Wilfrid Gibson
A stop-motion animation inspired by the 1914 poem.
THE TRAM by Wilfrid Gibson
Stop-motion animation of this Gibson poem first published in April 1914. Includes music by Stephen Brown and a reading by Tim Taylor. (charcoal, chalk, pencil, wax). Uploaded to Youtube October 2018 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0shRhRDOXGo ).
THE GIBSONS: Hexham poets in peace and war.
Queen’s Hall Arts Centre, Hexham, 26th June 2018 (storytelling/lecture with poet Ira Lightman) (https://www.facebook.com/1555955394700936/posts/1844153085881164/)
WAVECRAFT: Messages from an unknown world.
Institute of Neurology, University College, London, Library & Archive. 23 Queen’s Square, London, 1st May-31st July, 2017. (mixed media installation blending artwork, archive material and text).
MANHANDLING THE BRAIN: Psychiatric neurosurgery in the mid 20th century
Royal Society of Medicine Library, 1 Wimpole Street, London, 24th September 2016-4th January 2017 (visual art and archive installation).
Archive and Museum of the Institute of Neurology, 23 Queens Square London, 22nd June-23rd September 2016 (visual art and archive installation).
Neuropsychiatry Faculty conference, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London, September 2015 (storytelling /lecture).
Tolworth Hospital, London, April, 2016 (storytelling/lecture).
Wolfson Lecture, National Hosptial for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, July 2016 (storytelling/lecture).
WHEN DOCTORS DAMAGED BRAINS
Brain and Behaviour conference, Moat House, Stoke-on-Trent, March 2013 (storytelling/lecture)
SIX STORIES
National Huntington’s Disease Conference, Brittania Stadium, Stoke on Trent, November 2013 (storytelling/performance)
THE VACATED FACE
Fabrica, Brighton, November & April 2012 (video presentation)
IDEAS TOWARDS A NEUROLOGY OF VISUAL COMPOSITION
November 2012, Harplands Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent.
October 2012, Chester University.
March 2012, Fabrica, Brighton.
(perforance/lecture)
THE FORMBY PROJECT: 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
A series of events at or around the Museum of Wigan Life, Wigan, to commemorate 50 years since the death of George Formby (March-April 2011).
GUERILLA NOSTALGIA
Treloan Coastal Farm. May-June 2010 (residency)
TURNED OUT NICE AGAIN
Part of ‘Transitions 9’, The Exchange, Penzance, February 2010 (interactive illustration/installation project, with associated events)
FUTURE IMPERFECT
Project Space Gallery, University College Falmouth, October 2009 (large scale illustration and sculpture)
TOY STORIES
‘JAM’, Falmouth, Cornwall, June-July 2009 (hotography and sculpture).
PRAYING PLACES
Truro Cathedral, Truro, Cornwall, June 2009, Liverpool Cathedral, January, 2011 (sculpture, assembly, text and discussion ).
JUST KILL THEM
Lemon Square, Truro, Cornwall, April 2009 (Interactive illustration project).
Group Shows
Falmouth MA 2010 Show
Lamorva, University College Falmouth. 4th-10th September 2010
Falmouth MA in Fine Art Contemporary Practice, 2010 Show.
SOUTH WEST DRUM AND BASS AWARDS 2010
University College Falmouth students were invited to show as part of this event at the Eden Project, Cornwall, April 2010.
Large Formby portrait hanging and Electro Tremendum, video/musical collaboration with ‘electrohouse’ duo Atomic Drop
ENCOUNTERS
Treveal Farm, West Penwith, Cornwall. September 2009
Part of BosArts/National Trust weekend arts event
Collaborations
PRACTICAL PSYCHONAUTICS
Performance collaboration with Dr Julian Waite, University of Chester, 2013.
ELECTRO TREMENDUM
Video work based on altered footage from George Formby films, with music by electrohouse duo Atomic Drop , April 2010.
BLACKPOOL ROCK
Musical collaboration with Atomic Drop taking its inspiration from the George Formby song ‘With My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock’, and accompanying video work based on altered footage from 3 Formby films, July, 2010.
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ANGER DEPOSITORY
Appledore Visual Arts Festival, Appledore Devon, May 2009
Live art/performance/installation as part of MAMA collective
(The ‘MAMA collective’ is a Falmouth based group whose work in a variety of media with public engagement and participation)
FIRE AND FURY RITUAL
Appledore Visual Arts Festival, Appledore Devon, May 2009 (performance)
TRURO FACES
Museum for Cornwall, Truro, Cornwall, April, 2009 (A large-scale public portraiture event).
RESIDENCIES
Caravanserai, Treloan Coastal Farm, Roseland Cornwall (May 2010)
First of a two-part residency called Caravanserai-Spy. A participatory work that involved converting a shower block into a walk in 1950s I-Spy book.
GRANTS/AWARDS/PRIZES
August 2010: Arts Council Grant to create a new Formby Project installation, and to fund a seminar, March-April 2011, Wigan Life Museum.
September 2010, University College Falmouth (MA Fine Art: Contemporary Practice), Sandra Blow Scholarship.
July 2024: 