KIELDER (2017 -)
www.invisiblestargazing.blog
Kielder is a long-term project generating new photographic encounters with dark skies in Northern England, created in an extended artist residency and partnership with Kielder Observatory, Northumberland. The work forms the creative research elements of my practice-based PhD at the Northern Centre of Photography (University of Sunderland). It combines a series of still images, including stargazer portraits, still life photographs of astronomy-related cultural objects/gear and landscapes shot under dark-adapted light. Images have been exhibited in art gallery, museum, and outdoor public contexts. The NEPN commissioned the works 'Anatomy of a Northern Astronomer' and 'Dark Adaption' in 2019, as part of Observe, Experiment, Archive, exhibited at Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens in 2019-20.
I am currently working on a new moving image work, an augmented reality virtual exhibition ('Another Dimension') and a series of sonified photographs (that translate image data into non-visual encounters with photography). These works will be on display at Kielder Observatory in 2022.
Working PhD title: "Stargazing at the 'Invisible': Photography and the power of obscured light - a research partnership with Kielder Observatory." Supervisors: Dr Carol McKay, Prof. Arabella Plouveiz (Northern Centre of Photography), Trustees and Staff (Kielder Observatory).
Dark Matter, install at 'SelfScapes' (Dalby Forest, 2021)
Dark Matter, install at 'SelfScapes' (Dalby Forest, 2021)
Dark Matter, install at 'SelfScapes' (Dalby Forest, 2021)
Dark Adaptation, 2019
Wanderer, 19.01.2019, 2019
Wanderer, 19.01.2019, 2019
Wanderer, 31.12.2019, 2019
Wanderers, install at 'Observe, Experiment, Archive' (Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, 2019-20)
From Anatomy of a northern astronomer, 2019
From Anatomy of a northern astronomer, 2019
 From Anatomy of a northern astronomer, 2019
 Anatomy of a northern astronomer, install at 'Observe, Experiment, Archive' (Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, 2019-20)
Thermal #1, 2019
Thermal #2, 2019
Thermal #3, 2019
 From Anatomy of a northern astronomer, 2019
From Anatomy of a northern astronomer, 2019
From Anatomy of a northern astronomer, 2019
Dark Adaptation, install at 'Observe, Experiment, Archive' (Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, 2019-20)
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