Rock drawing - Curve and line 2005
chalk on rock in landscape
200 x 200cm

Rock Drawing - Curve and Symbols 2006
chalk on rock in landscape
100 x 200cm

Angst Tears for a Dead Cat 2007
stretched canvas and rock with tree
installation in landscape

Landscape Interrogation Line 2006
wood construction, plastic bags with chosen objects.
100 x 400 x 50cm

Detail - Landscape Interrogation Line 2006

Still life - APPLES AND THE COMPOSER 2007
Video of Webcam - one minute and forever

Flash Movie

An Arrangement of Apples
Inkjet print

Interrogation Landscape 2006
wood construction, shredded newspaper, dentist lamp
200 x 200 x 200cm

interrogation: 1. The transmission of a signal or combination of signals intended to trigger a response.
2. The process whereby a station or device requests another station or device to identify itself or to give its status.

Mynydd Merthyr 2006
wood construction, fleece in bags 100 x 300 x 300cm

Homage to Ian Hamilton Finlay April 2006
wood, canvas, reading lamp, fleece 200 x 250 x 250cm

Sounds Occupied - Picture - State - Place
(Part of an installation - the PICTURE) - AIRBRIDGE
Flash movie

Picture
I made a flight to Oman. I was excited by the thought of travelling from Harlech a town steeped in Welsh culture to a country in the Middle East that I had only had second hand experience of. The prospect of imagining taking on a role of a second class tourist Lawrence of Arabia seemed to be appropriate for a time. But this baggage had to be discarded. I didn't want to carry any preconcieved ideas about where I was heading. I made my little space in the plane into a studio. I made drawings and notes of what was going on. I looked at the dot on the map which showed where we were flying over. I came to the conclusion that everyone on the plane was being transported to and from one culture to another. We were on a sort of bridge. I asked the air steward to write 'AIRBRIDGE' in Arabic for me. The Arabic words looked exotic in themselves, even if I hadn't known what they meant. Even so, I had to take the flight steward's word for it. I relaxed and gazed out of the window into a blue continuum. The air-steward came around with a newspaper. She asked me if I wanted to read it. I thanked her again for her translation, and confronted the headlines. Somewhere in the world not far from where I and the rest of my fellow passengers were headed, planes were making a raid on some specific target. There seemed to be a terrible paradox in what was happening in the air. My drawings and thoughts were suddenly SWITCHED the myriad of compositional possibilities to make sculpture suddenly seemed irrelevant.

State
Supression, enclosure, power and kisses.

Place
The question is, "Where is the space we call our place?" The emptiness of our space occupied by another culture.

Proposal for work at Harlech Artists International Residencies and NEXO 2007

Picture - State - Place

I will develop an assemblage from the idea of a tripartite bridge, selecting elements from contemporary issues as a conceptual element contained within the work. This will evolve as a transfiguration of the idea into a form.

Media:

Webcam or video as appropriate with wood, canvas and glass construction.

Materials required:

Six large pieces of wood 30 x 30 x 300cm
I sheet of glass, (safety glass if possible) 60 x 100cm
Un-primed canvas 200 x 200cm