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Catalogue Essay by Helen Cadwallader for Ctrl Space: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother, ZKM|Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, 2002. Gallery Essay by Richard Grayson for Experimental Art Foundation and Adelaide Festival 1996, Search (Adelaide) and Cross-Winds.

Echo (2000) was a multi-media video artwork projected simultaneously by satellite downlink at The International Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne and The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow. From Locus+ publicity to accompany the screening: Echo is a large scale multi-media artwork in which artist Wendy Kirkup has created a technological ‘body atlas’ ofContinue reading “Echo”

‘Chute (2004), was a live performance and video installation commissioned by Allenheads Contemporary Arts as part of their ScartLab residencies 2003-4. In the skies above Allenheads Contemporary Arts a skydiver, connected to the gallery via live video link, became the vehicle for a cinematic ‘travelling shot’ which traversed the space between the abstracted aerial viewContinue reading “‘Chute”

Medium format and 35mm stills, Black and White, 2021.

Federal Plaza (2014), Pencil on Paper , each x 21.0 x 29.7 cm. All source images downloaded from the internet.

Bouquet (New Hybrids, Colour), Colour 16mm film, 3 minutes, silent, 2020.In collaboration with Alex Hetherington as part of his larger project Talking, Counting, Blinking, Noting: 16mm film as a collaborative action, 2019-2020. A project made together/apart during lockdown 2020. The 16mm film was passed through the camera first in Glasgow and then a second time inContinue reading “Bouquet (New Hybrids, Colour)”

Slipped Frames (2021), B&W, 35mm

S.I.S. (1992-3) was an early online, real-time interactive work developed through a bulletin board system via CompuServe CB Simulator. S.I.S was the adopted name of both myself and Pat Naldi as we interacted with others within the online world of fictional identities the system enabled. Developed during a residency at the Banff Centre, Canada 1992-3Continue reading “S.I.S”

0836-785555 (1991) was a site-specific video installation in Newcastle upon Tyne. The interior of a disused Victorian house in Newcastle upon Tyne was made visible to visitors via twelve CCTV cameras situated throughout its rooms, relaying images back to monitors installed in the former reception room of the house. Simultaneously, a looped recording of personalContinue reading “0836-785555”

Bouquet (New Hybrids, Black and White), B&W 16mm film, 3 minutes, silent, 2020.In collaboration with Alex Hetherington as part of his larger project Talking, Counting, Blinking, Noting: 16mm film as a collaborative action, 2019-2020. A project made together/apart during lockdown 2020. The 16mm film was passed through the camera first in Glasgow and then a secondContinue reading “Bouquet (New Hybrids, Black and White)”

Soundscapes (1996) was a live performance hosted in the Wards Building Basement, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne and ISIS Gallery, Melmerby, Cumbria. The two spaces were linked via ISDN which enabled live sound and video to appear simultaneously in both spaces where two female sopranos performed fragments of unaccompanied operatic duets together, within and acrossContinue reading “Soundscapes”

@shift (1993) was an intervention into the city of Bilbao as the city undertook a programme of regeneration. Railway tickets for the RENFE & Eusko Trenbideak rail companies operating the routes along both sides of the Nervion River and the heavy industries it had supported, were redesigned with images suggesting a future in the flowContinue reading “@shift”

L’Inconnue de la Seine (1991) was a 24-hour slide projection on to the side of a small mortuary situated on the banks of the river in Newcastle upon Tyne. The work drew upon the story of L’Inconnue de la Seine, a death mask reputedly cast from the face of an unknown woman who drowned inContinue reading “L’Inconnue de la Seine”