Archive
2016
GENIUS LOCI (CB300) Berrington Hall, Herefordshire, Feb - Aug
Site-specific installation programme celebrating Capability Brown’s last landscape.
Winner of the Hudson Heritage Award for best exhibition/event 2017
STRANGE MAGIC, closing performance event.
(NT, ACE, Trust New Art, CB300)
Winner of the Hudson Heritage Award for best exhibition/event 2017
WHITE HAWK HILL Brighton and Hove Museum and Art Gallery March-April
3-screen installation premiere (ACE, One Planet Living, Archaeology South East)
Site-specific film/installation exploring the hidden Neolithic landscape of Whitehawk Hill.
2015
R&D: Capability Brown tri-centenary 2016, National Trust, England
R&D at six NT properties (Trust New Art)
2014/2015
WHITE HAWK HILL Project development Whitehawk Hill, Brighton
(ACE, One Planet Living, Archaeology South East)
Site-specific performance intensive Winchester University, Feb - March
Working with Winchester University performance arts students (Winchester University)
2013
APERTURE : UCL Institute of Archaeology, London, Sept - December
Collaboration with UCL archaeologists towards expanding the arts/archaeology base (UCL)
RIVER CROSSING : Midlands Arts Centre Birmingham, September - October
Installation/performance/soundscape on the River Rea. Part of SOUNDING THE RIVER curated by Jony Easterby (ACE, MAC)
DANCE/INSTALLATION FILM COLLABORATION : East Sussex, February
Commissioned by and created with Australian artists James and Emma Batchelor (Australia Council for the Arts)
2012
NORTHALA : Ealing, London, July-August
In partnership with Artsagenda: Site-specific installation residency and sound and fire performance across the site marking and celebrating the arrival of the Paralympic Flame at Northala Fields, Ealing. Part of London 2012 Secrets:
Hidden London and the Paralympic Torch celebrations. (Greater London Authority)
2011
CHALK : South Downs, April-October
6 month project: site-specific installations, interpretative walks and performance journeys across the South Downs in partnership with the National Trust (ACE, National Trust, Trust New Art, South Downs Way National Trail, Collabor8)
DOGWATCH : Brighton seafront, October
3-hour soundscape and fire performance, Norfolk Groyne, Brighton
(White Night/Brighton and Hove CC)
2010
SUFI/ZEN Greenwich Park, Greenwich and Docklands Festival, London, July
Fire performance collaboration with Asian dance group AKADEMI (GDF)
2009
LANDMARK: PROJECT R&D
Short-listed for Artists taking the lead Cultural Olympiad award (LOCOQ, ACE)
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
Project R&D including CHALK and LITHOGRAPH: a triptych of site-specific
performances at Stonehenge, Avebury and the Preseli Hills in Wales. (ACE)
2008
NADA/MANTRA South Downs, October
A week of site-specific participatory music-based performances at the Chattri Indian war memorial, South Downs near Brighton (Brighton Festival of World Sacred Music)
LONG SHORE DRIFT Suffolk coast, May – September
6-month site-specific installation and performance project on the Suffolk coastline at
Dunwich responding to rising sea levels. In partnership with the National Trust
(ACE, NT, SC&H)
2007
ENCLOSURE Dorset, September
Performance journey across the neolithic landscape of Hambledon Hill, Dorset
(Inside Out Festival, Activate, Dorset CC, English Heritage, ACE)
KEEP Thames Estuary June
Greenwood tower: site-specific installation and activation
(Greenwich & Docklands Festival)
BOUNDARY north Kent January - February
Site-specific participatory residency and event with Kent schools
(Forestry Commission)
2005
GEOGRAPH: TRACE, VANISHING POINT Sussex coast, April – September
6-month site-specific project exploring cliff erosion at Birling Gap in collaboration with the
National Trust. (ACE, NT, Made In Brighton, Wealden District Council)
HOME East Sussex, June, July
Site-specific installation, Woodsmill Nature Reserve, Sussex (The Wildlife Trust, ACE)
JALAN (JOURNEY) Trafalgar Square London, July
Site-specific installation/performance featuring live sound, fire lighting up Trafalgar
Square), with Javanese performer Parmin Ras (GDF)
2004
MONSOON MELA London, July
Water-based installation/performance with Nitin Sawhney (GDF)
THE MESSENGER: ROARING HOOVES FESTIVAL Simon Pascoe Mongolia, June
Solo site-specific performances in Mongolia (Roaring Hooves Festival, ACE)
2003
THE RETURN
Mixed format participatory event leading to high-tide closing event (De La Warr Pavilion)
BUDDHAFIELD
Site-specific installation/activation involving ritual, cross-arts collaboration (Buddhafield)
ROARING HOOVES
Site-specific improvised performance tour - Mongolia (Roaring Hooves
Festival, ACE)
CAC MASTERCLASS
Masterclass residency for artists (Canterbury Arts Council)
2002
VESSEL
Hand crafted boat/ water installation/activation, Spirit Festival (Birmingham City Council)
EGG
Improvised installation/performance with ceramicist Andy Glass (Bracknell festival)
ISLAND
Site-specific installation/performance/ritual, Ancient Futures (Coed Hills, South Wales)
2001
BREATH
Site-specific installation/performance in Canterbury Castle with Japanese performers,
Canterbury Festival (Cant Festival, SEA, ACE, Japan 2001, Daiwa, Sasakawa
Foundations; ANA)
FLUX
European co-commission tour (Brighton Festival/Zap Productions, Falkirk/UZ, Viva Cite, Amiens)
YOTA: Hive Caitlin Easterby
Exploration of the potential for ecological sculptures to provide habitats for
Bee colonies (YOTA/SEA, Sussex Wildlife Trust, Booth Museum)
YOTA : Aquifer Simon Pascoe
With Ansuman Biswas, Parmin Ras. Performance journey from spring to sea marking
our relationship with water (SEA, Sussex Downs Conservation Board, Foredown Tower)
BREATH R&D
Japan-based programme incl. 2 site-specific performances in Japan (ACE/SEA)
PLANTATION
8 installations curated by Red Earth. Standen National Trust property (ACE/SEA, NT)
2000
OUTCROP
Green wood –based site-specific sculpture installation on the South Downs (ACE/SEA,
Lewes BC, South Downs Conservation Board)
CONVERGENCE
Beach-based installation performance Brighton Festival. (Zap Productions/SEA)
SHRINE
Improvised site-specific installation/ritual Between Nature Conference, Lancaster Univ.
CHANNEL
Installation performance/ritual on water (Basingstoke BC)
1999
DARK MATTER
Installation performance tour with Javanese performer Parmin Ras. Brighton, Viva Cite Festivals (SEA, Viva Cite, INTERREG, VISITING ARTS)
FIRE POINT
12 fire installations curated by Red Earth. VIVA CITE. (VIVA CITE)
BEACON
Site-specific12m fire tower: activation, performance Canteleu, France. (Canteleu Council)
1998
ALAM HALUS
Site-specific installation/performance with Javanese artists Parmin Ras and Wayang
Kulit master Toro. (Hawth Theatre, SEA)
WATER CROSSING
Water-based installation ritual. With Padepokan Lemah Putih (Java). Queen’s Park
Lake, Brighton Festival. ASEM ’98 cultural programme. (SEA, ACE, Visiting Arts,
Lighthouse)
TRANSMUTATION
2 site-specific gateway installations Viva Cite Festival (Viva Cite, Interreg)
ALAM HALUS R&D
Java; incl. site-specific performance and residency at Surabaya Art School with Parmin Ras (SEA)