Digital

Tiny Dancer

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Digital Activity (2025)

A drop-in green screen activity where we transform our fingers into fabulous performers! From breakdancing to ballet - tiny costumes, shoes, and our green screens brought finger dancing to life.

Commissioned by Ideas Test. In partnerhsip with Lordswood Community Hub and Lordswood Dancentre, Gather & Groove transformed Lordswood into a vibrant hub of energy and creativity. With a double bed, creative film making, outdoor acrobatics by the beach and a programme of short performances from some awesome young people.

PAST SHOWINGS

Gather & Groove
Lordswood library
17 May 2025

Rerooting

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Stained Glass with Projection Mapping (2022)

This piece uses the tradition of stained-glass-making as its base with the more contemporary techniques of digital animation and projection mapping to add the colour and movement.

PAST SHOWINGS

Medway Open Studios
Mess Room
July 2022

This Performance Is Unstable

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Experimental Online Performance (2021)

Online meetings bring a new digital chaos to our lives – bad connections, delayed audio, feedback loops and jittery conversations.

This Performance Is Unstable is a work for nine remote singers that both avoids and embraces these glitches, exploiting them to create a new way of collaborating musically over the internet. The experimental score uses technical problems as its chance element and tests the musical possibilities where precise timing is either less important or overcome altogether.

Watch and listen as a changing kaleidoscope of sound is produced, with features of excitement, suspense, resolution and surprise…

This was work was developed in partnership with Andy Millest, who is a music practitioner, musician and composer with over four decades of experience - he’s also my dad. This is our first official collaboration.

This piece was commissioned by Sparked Echo for the Electric Medway festival 2021.

PAST SHOWINGS

Electric Medway Festival
Aug 2021
Online

Periscope

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Interactive Installation (2019)

Periscope considers our sense of identity and self-image.  Do we view ourselves through the lens of the media, falling short of superficial unattainable standards, or do we see ourselves from the perspective of our Father in heaven - who made us, formed us and knows us better than we know ourselves?

The first section - displays a video montage of the media’s ideas of beauty and perfection. By standing in front of the screen (and the projector) you obstruct the image, creating a you-shaped shadow - you do not reflect this image of perfection, you are a blemish on this image.

You then continue to the second section - this screen initial looks blank, however when you stand in front of it it reveals a you-shaped image that contains animated references from the bible about how God, your father, views you. Due to your proximity to the screen only you can see and read these revealed messages about yourself. It is by coming close to the father that we can see ourselves through his eyes and understand our own identities.

PAST SHOWINGS

Unveiling Festival 
16th - 17th May 2019
The Engine Room

Sky Above The Scene

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Immersive Installation (2019)

In a time of borders being strengthened and unions being separated, Sky Above The Scene aims to focus attention on and increase appreciation of what unites us - our coexistence under one, borderless sky. While this may be a seemingly obvious fact, it’s perhaps only when space and time are provided to meditate on this fact, that it has the chance to change how people actually perceive the world. Sky Above the Scene aims to celebrate diversity, calling into question our perceptions of other cultures and challenging the notion of them being far removed and ‘foreign’, while making us think about our own position in the world, and how we would like our own communities to be perceived.

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“A seemingly simple idea, executed so beautifully to create an extremely powerful experience.”

“The world would be a better place if more people come and saw this exhibition. A lovely celebration of our differences and similarities.”

“Thoughtful, surprising and giving us all breathing space, which we need!”

PAST SHOWINGS

The Engine Room
March 2019

Electric Medway Festival
August 2020

Puncture the Screen Festival
July 2022

Wailing Wall

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Interactive Installation (2017)


Commissioned for Unveiling Festival 2017

The title is taken from the Western Wall of the temple in Jerusalem, nicknamed the Wailing Wall due the practice of Jews to visit the site to pray, weep over the temple’s destruction and slip prayer notes into the cracks in the walls.

As Christians we believe the temple where God resides is not a physical building but the body of His people. This installation seeks to be a representation of this. As we enter our prayers into the Wailing Wall, we start to understand the unity of His family and that we are all held together as the new wailing wall crying out: the living stones of His temple.

Interact:

  1. Listen to the prayers through the wall’s weep holes

  2. Kneel down at the cornerstone and record a prayer by placing your hands on either side. This will be added to the library of prayers.

PAST SHOWINGS

Unveiling Festival 
21st - 23rd Jul 2017
Anthology Works Tottenham Hale

Run to Run

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Interactive Installation (2013)

It is survival of the fittest, in the most literal of senses.

Originally part of the ‘Nothing But Smoke…’ collection of installations, this piece has broken away not only to be a stand alone interactive spectacle but has also inspired a mini series of site-specific explorations, playing with the mechanics of the flipbook and the need for audience participation to make them work/ make the ‘performer’ move. 

This piece was addictive. Each time I tried that little bit harder, and each time I seemed to fail right at the last hurdle. If ever a piece encapsulated the term ‘tempting failure’, it was this.


Editions:

Run to Run: Survival of the fittest (2012)
Run to make the animation progress through life, stop running and he dies - this interactive installation invites the audience to challenge themselves and playfully consider the futility of life. 

Run to Run: Lordship Lane (2016)
Race against the clock to collect the shopping from Lordship Lane - making fun of the 'to do list'. 

Run to Run: Shoreditch Sprint (2017)
Race against the clock to reach the Hoxton Job Centre before it shuts, while completing urgent tasks along the way. 

Run to Run: Guildhall Hurtle (2017)
Make your way around the exhibits in Guildhall Museum and get out before it closes at 5pm. 

PAST SHOWINGS

51zero Festival
Sat 28th - Sun 29th Oct 2017
Guildhall Museum

DIY Cultures Festival,
Interactive Art Commission
Sun 14 May 2017
RichMix

Fantasy High Street - Animating Lordship Lane
Sun 4 Sept 2016
Lordship Lane

Tempting Failure festival  
6-7th Apr 2013
The Island, Bristol,

GATE F – International Performance Experience
17th Jan 2013
 Stoke Newington Airport

Layers

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Digital Performance (2012)

This digital performance is concerned with the idea of layering, not only of multimedia with sound and video looping but also the layers applied daily to my face. Examining the metamorphosis that the face undergoes, the rigorous procedures performed to prepare the visage for the outside world, creating a state of flux and suggesting a fluidity of persona.

The video initially displays a video loop of the performers ‘naked face’. The performer goes through the routine of putting on a full face of makeup, with each layer of makeup applied live frames of that application are mixed into the video projection loop. Slowly the video loop becomes littered with flashes of these applications and eventually displays the finished ‘product’ - the socially projected image of the performer. 

In a similar way to the video mixing, a musician provides a sound scape created from the use of looping and pedals. Each layer of makeup is accompanied by another layer of sound added to the audio loop, so that by the end the  ‘busyness’ of the face is paralleled by the cacophony of the soundscape.

Trace video of the projected video output:

PAST SHOWINGS

51zero Festival
Oct 2012
Rochester Visitor Centre

51zero Voyager - Whitstable Biennale 
Sat 2nd June 2018 
Film Screening on the beach

Your Face, Your Self

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One On One Performance (2012)

A one on one performance in which the audience are invited to take a journey with themselves. 

An interactive audio/visual installation for one person at a time, inviting the viewer to examine their relationship with their own reflection. They are encouraged to stare at their image while listening to an internal monologue that draws on psychology and literary texts, such as Ovid’s Metamorphosis, Oscar Wilde’s A Picture of Dorian Gray and Sartre's Nausea, all of which describe and voice the internal observations on one's outwards appearance. The audio guides them to examine family traits, scars, personal customisation such as piercings. Thinking back to our infant stage when we began to recognise our reflection as ourselves, going through puberty when we may have become more obsessed by our image and self expression, onwards to the history shown in the geographical landscape of our face forged by our lives and overall questioning whether you feel it is a true representation of your inner self.

experience the performance online

PAST SHOWINGS

51zero Festival
Oct 2014
Sun Pier, Chatham

Scratch Festival 
Oct 2012
Battersea Arts Centre 

Electric Medway Festival
Aug 2020