the long hangover solo exhibition

scenic route (nudged, shoved, pushed), 1903-2023/2024 80 x 35mm slides, s-av slide projector, timer, circular screen slide projection documenting the rear ends of a bespoke collection of 80 flashlights, arranged chronologically from oldest to newest.

…into bed.  1903-2023/2024 80 defunct flashlights arranged in ‘kindling’ piles, magnets, LEDs, batteries

scenic route (nudged-shoved-pushed), 1903-2023/2024 digital scans from 35mm slides (9 examples shown out of 80)

gallery view of works including clocked out, a hand-carved sculpture made from a used caretaker's indoor brush (leaning against pillar)

clocked out, 1797/2024, hand-carved used indoor brush

by december, we’d stopped asking.  1908/2024 12 partially consumed lollipops

gallery view including video work shown on flatscreen television, titled, handheld (pauline), 1882/2024

handheld (pauline), 1882/2024

looped 12’15” miniDV footage transferred to digital.(.gif clip shown above)

the film is from the shakey attempts made by elderly hands to record a series of lighthouses.

no more than three whyyyyyyyy’s from the abyss, 1690/1693/2024 7 channel sound work 41’21” looped (clip above) the composition was made from onsite recordings of an original arp schitnger pipe organ built between 1689-1693 in hamburg, germany. the soundwork was built by taking each unique pipe sound and assigning it to a key on a midi keyboard, so I could 'play' the organ in the studio. for the exhibition these keys were then assigned to their own individual speaker. the act of capturing and reproducing the organ’s sound can be seen as a domesticating gesture that perhaps mirrors the decline of the grand narrative of the organ as the voice of god. in the 19th century the invention of the steam organ relegated the instrument to the centre of children’s carousel rides, while today the organ is commonly encountered in horror film soundtracks. the audio work includes a bedtrack captured during a political event in my home town.

domesticated (arse), 2024 domesticated (head), 2024  child-sized silicone costume stuffed with adult-sized clothes inspired by 1920s french carousel horse designs and cast in skin-safe special effects silicone

gallery view with paper works (right) from elsewhere series, comic book pages

elsewhere (pg36, pg21, pg38, pg51), 1977/1984/2024 comic book pages

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exhibition text: standing in the moonlight of an electronically lit ‘midnight sky’ the long hangover transports the viewer into a landscape that has lost its sense of scale. this can be experienced directly upon encountering the installation …into bed, 1903-2023 (2024), in which defunct flashlights are arranged in piles resembling kindling, akin to glowing embers. scenic route (nudged-shoved-pushed), 1903-2023 (2024) is a 35mm slide projection documenting the rear ends of these flashlights. arranged chronologically from oldest to newest, these circular and moon-like images map the spread of flashlight technology across the world, beginning with its invention in 1898 by british inventor david misell. here the gap between the micro and macro, between the individual hand-sized object and its spread over vast geographical distances, is brought to life. echoes of a sliding tonal scale, recorded from an arp schnitger organ located in the hauptkirche st. jacobi in hamburg, circulates along the edges of the gallery. originally a roman catholic church, st. Jacobi’s denomination changed to lutheran in 1529 as a result of the protestant reformation. moving up and down in scale but always clockwise, the sound follows a forward motion that wraps itself around the gallery space and its occupants. the act of capturing and reproducing the organ’s sound can be seen as a domesticating gesture that perhaps mirrors the decline of the grand narrative of the organ as the voice of god. in the 19th century the invention of the steam organ relegated the instrument to the centre of children’s carousel rides, while today the organ is commonly encountered in horror film soundtracks.