MOVING IMAGE
My moving-image works explore colour, movement and sound over time. They often begin with footage gathered from different cameras and recording devices, which I layer, distort and rework until the original subject starts to dissolve into something more ambiguous.
Sound is developed alongside the image rather than added afterwards. I tend to hear relationships between colour, movement and tone quite instinctively, and the process moves back and forth between what I am seeing and what I am hearing. A shift in colour might suggest a change in pitch or texture; a sound might lead me back to reshape the rhythm or movement of the image. The two gradually become part of the same composition.
Like the paintings and installations, these works are concerned with perception and altered ways of seeing. I’m interested in using familiar materials such as light, landscape, colour and sound to create something that feels slightly removed from ordinary reality: immersive, strange and at times meditative.
This has increasingly led the moving-image work beyond the screen and into installation. Eye of the Butterfly, for example, combines large-scale video projection across walls and floors with a 7.1 surround composition for string quartet and synthesisers, allowing image and sound to occupy the architecture together.