Selected realised work
Flotilla Phase One
July to September 2025
Flotilla Phase One created a 12m high prototype sail sculpture that went on display near the seafront in Clevedon, North Somerset. The structure, which turned in the wind, was designed and built in collaboration with structural engineers, specialist sailmakers, riggers, fabricators and others.
Flotilla is a site-specific art installation that will raise 20 giant sails across the North Somerset Levels. Looking out across the landscape, the sails will appear to float above the fields as if raised up on an invisible sea. The work will evoke the historic landscape that was once an inland sea, as well as a potential future return of the sea due to climate change. See ‘Work in development’ below for Phase Two details.
Tidelight
February to April 2022
Tidelight was a site-specific installation that turned Bristol’s M Shed museum into a giant colour-changing lantern that responded directly to the rise and fall of the tides.
Sensors out in the Bristol Channel sent real-time tide data back to the museum, where it was converted, on-the-fly, into coloured light using RGB lighting units installed throughout the building. Low tide translated into red light, and as the water rose, the hue transitioned through shades of orange, yellow, green, and blue, all the way to deep violet at the very highest tides.
The project continues online with a web page that changes colour with the tides.
Watermarks
February to March 2009
Watermarks was a site-specific art project that explored how rising sea levels could impact Bristol. Large-scale projections, inspired by historic flood level marks, were projected onto the facades of buildings, showing how high water levels could potentially rise if the sea were to inundate the city.
By displaying these levels in real space, the project aimed to help the audience imagine the depth and extent of this potential future flooding, allowing us to measure possible future water levels against ourselves in familiar environments.
Walking the past/future coast
Summer 2024
A walk along the ancient coastline that is now the edge of the North Somerset Levels; which could become coast again with rising sea levels. Inspired by Richard Long’s mapped walks of the 1970s, this project, 50 years on, responds to an issue of our time – the emerging knowledge of an impending future. Rather than the elegant mathematical and spiritual abstract shapes of the circle and the line, this project follows another abstract form; the shape of the coast as it may become if current sea level projections come to pass
Glimpsed
October 2014
People walking along Bristol’s Harbourside, after dark, were suddenly confronted with bright, vivid moving images of endangered animals appearing unexpectedly across windows. Sometimes fleetingly, almost subliminally, and disappearing all too soon – like something special and rare, gimpsed in a forest but displaced from its habitat for a moment into the modern city.
The project was supported by Arts Council, England and ran in partnership with Wildscreen and ARKive in conjunction with the Wildscreen Festival. The project was also supported by the BBC Natural History Unit who supplied the original film foota
Selected work in development
Flotilla Phase Two
Summer 2028 TBC
Flotilla is a site-specific art installation that will raise 20 giant sails across the North Somerset Levels. Looking out across the landscape, the sails will appear to float above the fields as if raised up on an invisible sea. The work will evoke the historic landscape that was once an inland sea, as well as a potential future return of the sea due to climate change. Phase One created a prototype sail structure, Phase two will see the sails rolled out across the landscape and is currently in development.
The project is currently at the development stage with a full-scale prototype sail completed and tested; local authority support agreed; ongoing discussion with landowners; arts partners and engineers on board. No funding applications made yet.
Seven Skies
In concept development phase
Seven rooms filled with constantly shifting light respond directly to the changing light conditions at seven remote locations around the world. Light data, picked up by sensors at the source locations is relayed back to a gallery or warehouse in Bristol in real-time and recreated, on the fly, using high colour fidelity lighting units. As the colour and brightness of the light shifts throughout the day and night at each source location, so the quality of light in each room will change accordingly, as the earth turns on its axis.
Inside the building, the audience will be able to move from room to room, jumping from the dazzling sun of the Rajasthan desert to the inky darkness of the Brazilian night, or experience the fleeting rays of the sun as it momentarily breaks the horizon before disappearing again, deep in the Arctic winter.