EXHIBIT
Three decades of delusion
In Lockdown
Virtual exhibition of paintings
2020
Paintings made in lockdown London during 2020 when the city was still and the air was clean. And nature, both benign and predatory, felt closer and brighter and imminent. Nowhere to show them, so I built my own virtual gallery online.
Clustered Force
Portraits of the web
2016
These large-scale prints are on the walls at the London headquarters of Sapient. Five in all, they depict the structure and character of 5 major brand websites, as seen by search engine spiders.
They are portraits of the web, and form part of my continuing pursuit of an aesthetic language that both humans and computers can appreciate.
Wood Wall
Interactive surface projection at the Saatchi Gallery, London
2014
An AudioVisual interactive piece commissioned by Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. Produced by Imagination. Shown at the Saatchi gallery in London, November, 2014. We designed an interactive sound sculpture with a stretchable fabric interface that brought the marquetry mastery of Rolls-Royce to life.
SOLO
The Sound of Your Face
2014
SOLO is a wall-mounted tablet with audio speakers. When the subject looks into the screen their face is scanned and the data used to build their own, unique musical biometric portrait.
SINGING RIBBONS
Augmented Reality interactive audio paintings
2013
Military insignia become music by assigning a musical note to each colour, with the width of ribbon-colour dictating the length of that note. The acclaimed Soprano Susan Parkes sings the scores and the resulting songs are contained within a smartphone app, available from the Apple or Android App Stores.
And you may find yourself...
Three decades of my art
2011
Having realised it's pretty unlikely anyone will ever bring out the Catalogue Raissoné of all my art work I decided to do it myself.
It covers all the stuff I did at school; through University; in London (the penniless freezing years); Los Angeles (the penniless sun drenched years); Provence (the penniless gourmet years) before I jacked it in for a while and got a job.
You can grab a copy here. They should have a few left...
Just throw money
The second volume
2020
I can't deny that I've been consistent, if not exceptional, in my success at carving out a living from the digital revolution. And navigating the swirls and rapids of change, both societal and technical, has given me a seat in the kitchen.
This book reflects on what I've seen and done to earn a crust, as well as the artwork and random projects that happened in parallel.
The Viral City
Hand-blown glass containing teddy bear holograms
York, UK 1997
The day I infected the City of York with a virus certainly generated some press. Even though they were only artfully abandoned shiny objects - containing a hologram of a silver teddy bear with a hand grenade chained around his neck, it still caused a stir. National press, local TV. Funtimes.
GOGOs
The lure of the paint is impossible to resist
2011
God that was a cold winter. Suddenly stricken by a lust to daub, I set up in my unheated garden studio and churned out about a zillion paintings over the course of a few months.
These tiny plastic figurines 'GoGos' were all the rage with my kids for a while. they collected hundreds of them. GoGos are perfect to paint – sculptural, full of character, colourful, simultaneously playful and deeply sinister. The kids were intriqued. Nobody else was, really. Most of them ended up in the bin.
FURNITURE
Up-cycled steel and glass with digital printing
2012
Did I mention that I design furniture as well? Part of the re-branding of mobile marketing agency Sponge in London. Bespoke reception and boardroom furniture.
Art Dog
A novel loosely based on my time working in Hollywood
2009
At the bottom of the Hollywood food chain, Art Dogs dig ditches and lay cables. One day ahead of the crew, two days behind with the news. First in line for lunch, but bottom of the list when the credits role. Stan is driving across America to pick up a movie in South Carolina. But is it just the wind and country radio whispering in his ear as he drives, or has someone else come along for the ride?
Everything fabulous starts with an F
Short stories about being 'Generation F'
2017
Now available as an audio book. Narrated by Jonathan Brenner
The Trophy Wife started a web magazine aimed at women in ‘the flush of life’ – thefclub.uk, and asked me to contribute some thoughts from the male perspective. So I wrote her some stories about my friends, also in their forties and fifties; their lives and loves, and how they feel about women.
They made her laugh which made me happy so I wrote some more.
Flotilla
The Gulf Stream, North Atlantic
1995
144 sealed jars thrown into the Gulf Stream off the coast of Florida. Jars contained 3 wishes for the finder to make: for something Impossible, something Forgotten and something Crazy. Plus a return mailer addressed to me in France - got some interesting responses.
The Viral Cathedral
Art dans les Rue Festival, Aix-en-Provence
1998
I did some great work while I was living down in the south of France. This offensively pink shed had stained glass windows depicting some of mankind's most virulent bacterial enemies. It was a big hit, as you can see.
Migration
Psychogeographic poetry in the Parisian sky
1996
This was a piece of folie. Random points on a map of Paris, a crazed treasure hunt through the winter streets of the city of light. Fun fact: camera work by Hollywood director Rupert Wainwright.
