Role: Artist & Filmmaker
An on going collaborative art project.
Currently the exhibition is at Windermere Jetty Museum until July 17th 2022
The first Dovetailing installation took place in June 2021 and was an immersive experience combining film, music and mobile sculpture. Beginning with a tree, to the selection of the wood, to the instrument maker and the music, Dovetailing responded to how notes are drawn out of silence. Each visitor made their own way through the space, creating movement, silhouettes and shadows.
Sculptor Juliet Gutch created a series of suspended wooden mobiles that acknowledge instruments as honed and initially quiet forms. I have created a film & sound installation, exploring the journey – from the tree, to the luthier, to the played music and finally the to audience. We worked together with composer and viola player Sally Beamish, whose composition Prelude and Cannon has been specially adapted for the project.
The trailer was created during the spring and summer of the pandemic 2020 for the project.
In the first exhibition at Farfield Meeting House in the Yorkshire Dales the film was projected through the mobiles inside the 17th Century chapel, filled with quiet sound.
In the next exhibition, Dovetailing Responses 4-7 November 2021 at Ilkley Manor House film shown with dual projection on suspended screens that hung throughout the space like trees. New responsive work was included, visual arts, dance, poetry, live music, reactive work led by Art School Ilkley and the option to create a movement sensitive soundtrack using the smartphone app Movuku. Ilkley Literature Festival Poet in Residence Ian Duhig was invited to write a series of his own poems, lead a workshop with a group from Refugee Action and host a reading.
More information on ‘Dovetailing’ here
The book Dovetailing Gathered Notes is available to buy from The Grove Book shop, Ilkley