Birdsong.
During 2006 I had been working on a series of film pieces as part of my MA course. During this time I had started to look into combining moving image and sound pieces with my photographic works. My first experiments with combining sound and photographs were realised at a group exhibition in the Burslem School of Art (Stoke on Trent) where I exhibited an aluminium mounted, panoramic photograph combined with field recordings mad at the location where the image was made.
The ideas explored during this time had major impact on the way my work has progressed and the use of sound is still an important part of my photographic practice.
The piece 'Birdsong' was produced for my final MA exhibition and featured a 6 minute film piece based on a panoramic photograph and complex sound piece based on 5 field recordings played on 5 separate CD players to form a continuous loop of sound.
During 2006 I had been working on a series of film pieces as part of my MA course. During this time I had started to look into combining moving image and sound pieces with my photographic works. My first experiments with combining sound and photographs were realised at a group exhibition in the Burslem School of Art (Stoke on Trent) where I exhibited an aluminium mounted, panoramic photograph combined with field recordings mad at the location where the image was made.
The ideas explored during this time had major impact on the way my work has progressed and the use of sound is still an important part of my photographic practice.
The piece 'Birdsong' was produced for my final MA exhibition and featured a 6 minute film piece based on a panoramic photograph and complex sound piece based on 5 field recordings played on 5 separate CD players to form a continuous loop of sound.
The Smallest Fragments are the Saddest...
During this time I was also working on a series of abstract images. These images started as inspiration for some small scale film pieces but quickly became a separate body of work. These pieces follow on form the ideas of memory I was exploring in earlier pieces but moved the images to be more abstracted. It was within this project that I started exploring the ideas of veiling and seeing through which have become important in my continuing practice.
Towards the end of the year I compiled around 15 images from this series in to a book called 'The Smallest Fragments are the Saddest...' The final book is 6x6 inches and hand bound.
During this time I was also working on a series of abstract images. These images started as inspiration for some small scale film pieces but quickly became a separate body of work. These pieces follow on form the ideas of memory I was exploring in earlier pieces but moved the images to be more abstracted. It was within this project that I started exploring the ideas of veiling and seeing through which have become important in my continuing practice.
Towards the end of the year I compiled around 15 images from this series in to a book called 'The Smallest Fragments are the Saddest...' The final book is 6x6 inches and hand bound.
