A taste from the seminars for Composting Estate, by Sensingsite, at Central Saint Martins, University of Arts, London. It includes my presentation of my international project ‘A Tree Waves Hello.’

Offering workshops and presenting my international project ‘A Tree Waves Hello’ at Central Saint Martins and Approaching Estate event at Finsbury Park. We will also be going live from remote forests!

I have been invited to present my latest project and offer workshops at Central Saint Martins in April. This will be a very exciting, interactive demonstration based on a pilot project undertaken during my residency in Glen Nevis a few years back. The best part is that anyone across the world will be able to join in as well! More details to follow soon.

My multimedia installation during the Outlandia residency in Scotland, at the foot of Ben Nevis, has been featured in Tracey Warr’s article “Buildings of the forest: Outlandia” in the “Reforesting Scotland” journal, issue 48. Reforesting Scotland is a membership organisation encouraging free and open debate on a wide range of forest and land issues. Through its international networking, Reforesting Scotland links with people-focused projects throughout the world. My installation at Outlandia allowed individuals from all over the world to interact remotely with the unique landscape features, challenges and tensions involved.

An update following my residency at Outlandia. The communication between man and environmental elements, through technological aids was my project’s main concern. In addition, I examined how creating a social dialogue between Ben Nevis and the local community, through an investigation of new boundaries of perception and illustration of the natural environment, could practically be achieved both effectively and efficiently. The resulting visual enhances the concept of communication between individual trees, and between the tree and the viewer. In addition, it creates an additional dimension to the aesthetic properties linked to the overall movement and response of the trees to natural impulses, such as the wind and light. The installation allowed viewers from around the world to interact with the local environment and experience the actual visual effect created in real time, through the live streaming of the video footage from Outlandia. You can read more about the technical aspects of the installation if you follow the link above.

I have been offered an artist residency at Outlandia, an off-grid, artist studio, up a steep forest track on a hillside facing Ben Nevis. The aim is to create an experimental, radical approach to a challenging natural and working environment that will engage with the local tensions around nature, industry, tourism or heritage. Outlandia by artists London Fieldworks was designed by Edinburgh based Malcolm Fraser Architects. Tracey Warr is Associate Curator for the project and its Honorary Patron is Robert Macfarlane. Outlandia is supported by an Advisory Group of local artists, residents and curators and is located in a copse of Norwegian Spruce in Glen Nevis on Forestry Commission land, at the foot of Ben Nevis in the Scottish Highlands, approximately 3 miles from the town of Fort William.