Having originally worked within the realm of minimalist painting and sculpture, and active in the mail art network (that’s where the pseudonym the man from ICON comes from), I moved into digital photography and video in the early 2000s. This started as a way to explore the processes and systems used to make my paintings and sculptures, a form of documentation as artwork. In turn this led to works about mapping space and time within landscapes, and visual investigations into natural phenomena. Often referencing western traditions and histories of painting, particularly Romantic notions of the sublime, I used techniques such as time-lapse, stereoscopy and multiple exposure in an attempt to see the world in ways not ordinarily visible. During this period I regularly collaborated with lens-based artist Brian McClave.
My current work continues to be preoccupied with landscape as a central theme, specifically in relation to a love of long distance cycling. Churches in my home county of Sussex and water towers in northern Europe, making frequent use of a ferry crossing to France near to where I live, are recurring motifs, both human interventions that mirror my presence in those same landscapes. Artworks are manifested through more analogue means these days: film photography, writing, printmaking, ‘zines, rubber stamps and stickers, all things that I’ve realised hark back to my days involved in the mail art network. Physical objects related to the physical act of cycling, indicating maybe a deepening engagement with both the act of creating and the environment itself.
Selected Solo & Collaborative Exhibitions, Screenings and Events
2024
Meet Me By The Water Tower Porteur, Brighton
2023
South Downs Porteur, Brighton
2012
Ninety Three Millions Miles CineCity, Duke of Yorks Cinema, Brighton
2011
The Stereoscope III CineCity, Nightingale Theatre, Brighton
2010
The Stereoscope II White Night, Regency Town House, Brighton
The Stereoscope I Studio Ping Pong, Brighton
Stationary Cambridge Film Festival
BN3 Soundwaves Festival, Brighton
Stereo-East London Festival of Architecture
2009
It’s Not Quite How I Remember It Re-wired, London Sinfonietta
Dimensions of Jersey Branchage Festival, Jersey
2008
Take Wing Shot By The Sea Film Festival, Hastings
Clouded Permanent Gallery, Brighton
Views From Here Various venues across Stoke-on-Trent
2006
build! dismantle! repeat! Permanent Gallery, Brighton
2004
Flat Pack Red Gallery, Hull
2002
Target Practice Switchspace, Glasgow
2001
Seven Modular Pieces Brighton Artists Gallery
1994
O Light Invisible West End Centre, Aldershot
Selected Group Exhibitions, Events & Screenings
2025
RTS Zine Fair Look Again Newhaven
PrintHouse 2.0 Brighton
East Side Print at the Grange Rottingdean
2024
Passing Through Brighton Photo Fringe, Regency Town House, Hove
2014
V.02 Gravity QUAD, Derby
2012
Last Chance Salon? APEC, Brighton
2011
Flow, Flux, Flight Orleans House Gallery, Richmond, London
Invisible City Symphonies Marie-Antoinette, Berlin, Germany
Lapse Animate Projects (online)
2010
Invisible City Symphonies La Cave De La Cultures, Barcelona, Spain
Invisible City Symphonies HBC, Berlin, Germany
Invisible City Symphonies Silwex Space, London
Phototropic APEC, Brighton
2009
Salon Show Temporary Art Space, Halifa
Athens Video Art Festival Technopolis, Greece
Mieosis: In The Landscape Babel, Trondheim, Norway
Brian McClave: Collaborations Focal Point Gallery, Southend
2008
Around Photography Brighton Photo Fringe
Sound:Space South Hill Park, Bracknell
Collision Area 10, Peckham, London
(un)realised Black Dog Studios, Lewes
2006
Compton Skyline Brighton
Paperworks Bury Art Gallery & Museum
City Running Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
2005
Stance Market Gallery, Glasgow
States of Union? Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2004
Imagine One Canada Square, London
Transition Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
2002
Hands Free The Crypt, Seaford
1997
The Institute of Iconography West End Centre, Aldershot
Selected Commissions, Residencies and Awards
2012
CineCity, Brighton (commission)
2010
Cambridge Film Festival (commission)
Soundwaves Festival, Brighton (commission)
2009
LKV, Trondheim, Norway (residency)
Branchage Festival, Jersey (commission)
Sonic Explorations London Sinfonietta (commission)
East End Film Festival, London (commission)
2008
Shot By The Sea, Hastings (commission)
2007
Place, Space & Identity Public Art Commission, Stoke-on-Trent
2006
Compton Skyline Public Art Commission, Brighton
1994
West End Centre, Aldershot (residency)
Selected Publications
2024
2704 independently published photobook with texts
2019
“The shortest, straightest line rarely beckons” Ernest Journal, ISSN 2055-723X
2012
Babel 2009-2010 Babel Kunst, Trondheim, Norway, ISBN 978-82-998345-1-3
Sculpture at Canary Wharf ISBN 978-0-9563648-1-4
2009
Time Lapse: Collaborative Relationships A-N Magazine, ISSN 02613425
2008
Raw Material Liz Lock & Mishka Henner, ISBN 1-904869-05-X
2007
Annika Strom: Call For A Demonstration onestar press, Paris, ISBN 2-915359-23-7
Other Projects
2003-2013
Co-founder and Director of APEC studios, Brighton
2005-2008
Co-curator and Director of finetuned (http://www.finetuned.co.uk)
2007
Relay, Friese Green Gallery, Brighton (co-curator, finetuned)
Signal, online (co-curator, finetuned)
2006
Pilot, Brighton (co-curator, finetuned)
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