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RECENT
WORK HISTORY
Major commissions,
prizes, exhibitions and other notable events. For more information on all
topics, please visit my website.
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Date of birth
Place of birth
Nationality
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19 August 1951
Manchester
British
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2013
2012
2011
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- An Alternative
Approach to Unifying String Theory with the Standard Model of Particles,
installation created for Tallinn Light Biennale, 24 Nov..1 Dec. multiple
kinetic sculptures and artist designed chromastrobic lighting, 6 m tall
x 10 x 10 m.
- Made in Light, touring
group show organised by Musee en Herbe with exhibitions at Vasarely
Foundation, Aix en Provence, EDF Foundation, Paris, Christie's Paris.
- Spinning
Cosmos, Art Futura, MUMI, Montevideo, Uruguay, 7..17 November,
light installation, multiple kinetic sculptures and artist designed
projections, 3 m tall x 6 x 6 m.
- Persistence of
Vision, Origin of String Theory, Light Show,
phaeno Science Centre, Wolfsburg, Germany, opened 28 September for one
year.
- Enigma of
Light II, Latymer Upper School, London, permanent installation of wall mounted relief outside physics department
in new science building, 1.2 m tall x 2 m wide.
- Persistence of
Vision, Art Futura XXI, Bilbao Spain, 14 July – 18 September, interactive light sculpture, 4 m tall x 1 m diameter.
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2010
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- Wave Trio, Kopernicus
Centre, Warsaw, Poland, new science museum, opening early autumn.
permanent installation of three light sculptures, each piece 4 m tall x
1 m diameter each.
- String Theory
II,
Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, Anchorage, Alaska, new exhibition opening
May. permanent installation of light sculpture, 7 m tall x 1.7 m
diameter.
- String Waves, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, new exhibition opening March 18th. permanent
installation of light sculpture, 9 m tall x 2.4 m diameter.
- Entanglement I, Kinetica,
art fair, London, 4 – 7 February, light sculpture, 3.5 m tall x 0.6
diameter.
- Entanglement
II,
ARC 2010, London, 3-5 February, light sculpture, 3.5 m tall x 0.6
diameter. All white version of The Wave.
- City Gate, Shortlisted
for Spitalfields Sculpture Prize, Exhibition of maquettes by shortlisted
artists, 12 January – 12 February.
- The Light Tree,
Tower Hamlets, London. Permanent outdoor light sculpture, design commissioned,
cancelled owing to budget problems.
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2009
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- The Wave, The
Brain Unravelled, 8 – 19 September, light sculpture, 3.5 m tall x 0.6
diameter, with newly developed digital LED chromastrobe, designed with
assistance of electronics engineer, Louis Norwood
- Light Wave, Casa Décor, Madrid, 7 May – 7 June, light sculpture, 5 m tall x 0.6 diameter.
- Abstract
Cosmology, Jerusalem Festival of
Light. Jerusalem Archaeological Park, Israel, 10 – 16 June. outdoor
installation, 3 sculptures 6 m tall in area 6 x 6 m,
video projections.
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2008
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- Timeless
Universe, Via Festival, Le Manege, Maubeuge, France, 13 – 23 March .
smaller
version of installation previously shown at Sala Parpallo,
Valencia, Mixed media, 6 kinetic sculptures approximately 2 m tall x 1m
diameter, 1 sculpture, 6 m tall x 2.5 m diameter.
- Timeless
Universe, Exit Festival, Maisons des Arts, Creteil, Paris, 28
March - 6 April. same show as described above.
- Souls and
Machines Exhibition, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 26 June – 13 October. 4 new works: Spinors:
group of 8 kinetics, 1.5 x 1.5 x 0.75 m; Enigma of Light, wall
relief 2.4 x 1.2 m; Wave Function, kinetic sculpture 1.5 x 0.75 x
0.75 m; Abstract Cosmology, group of 3 kinetics 6 x 2 diameter, 6
x 2 diameter, 4 x 1 diameter, mixed media, various forms of light
projection.
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2006
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- The Gate of
Time, Milan Design Week, 1 – 10 April, outdoor
installation: the largest work so far created. Mixed media, 15 m tall x
2.5 m diameter, Porta Ticenese.
- Timeless
Universe, Sala Parpallo, Valencia, Spain, 17 May – 9 July. One man-show, two sections of retrospective work and a new
installation. Entire gallery painted black. The most
comprehensive exhibition to date, 29 exhibits, mixed media, light
projections, largest individual work shown 6 m tall x 2.2 m in diameter.
A conference was arranged with the show on the subject Time Does Not
Exist. Conference speakers included the noted English physicist, Julian
Barbour and myself. A catalogue of the show has been published.
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2005
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- String Theory, Wolfsburg
Science Centre, Germany opened 29 November. Permanent
installation. Mixed media, light projections, 7.5m tall x 1m
in diameter.
- Waterlow Park, London, 22, 23 September. Installation as part of a special event organized by the
charity Garden Africa. Group of light sculptures, 3 m tall x 0.6
diameter.
- 46th
International Film Festival, Thesaloniki, Greece, 17 – 28 November. Installation
of light art, mixed media. 6 suspended light sculptures, various heights
2 – 3 m.
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2004
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- Feria, in Gijon, northern Spain, 1 –15 August. Installation of light art, mixed media
fully blacked out space 6 m tall x 8 x 12.
- CanariaMediaFest,
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, 23 – 30 October. Installation
of light art, mixed media, fully blacked out space 3.5 m tall x 6 x 6.
- Chromatoforms, October
Gallery, London, opened 4
November. opened to coincide with the 25th anniversary
festival for this gallery and eco-culture. Light installation, mixed
media, 4
metres tall x 2 x 6.
- Kinetic Art
Organization Prize winner. 10 August. The Kinetic Art Organization (KAO)
was founded as a not for profit organization by a group of kinetic
artists. There are KAO members in over 60 Countries. They are the
largest Kinetic Art and Sculpture Organization in the world.
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2003
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- Arenas
Movedizas Festival, Gijon, northern Spain, 20 – 28 September. A culture
festival mostly featuring digital works by Spanish young artists. The
installation was in a chapel by the waterfront that is more than 300
year old. It has been converted to an art museum. Installation
of light art, mixed media, fully blacked out space 9 metres tall x 8 x
16 m.
- Left bank of
the Seine, Paris, 23 June. Installation to celebrate the re-inauguration
of a major kinetic sculpture by Nicholas Schoffer. This extraordinary
work is more than 10 metres high and is situated in a park by the Seine. The event was to mark the moment it was switched back on after many years of lying
idle, following attack by vandals.
- Art Rock, St
Brieuc, northern France, 6 - 8 June. Art Rock is an annual culture
festival held in this lively small city. Other works included
installation by sound artists, dance and musical performances. Installation
of light art, mixed media, fully blacked out space 5 m tall x 8 x 16 m
- Kinetic Art
Organization Prize winner, 20 June.
- Sonic Light,
Paradiso, Amsterdam 13 – 23 February. The Sonic Light conference and
festival chose visual music as it themes in 2003 and invited a large
number of artist and composers in the field to participate.
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2002
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- Art Futura
2002, Contemporary Culture Centre, Barcelona, 31 October – 3 November.
Art Futura is one of the worlds leading showcases for digital art, held
annually in Spain. This festival was founded in 1991 and has been
presented every year since. Three new works were created for the show,
The Wave Equation 5.5 m tall x 12 x 2, The Suspended Wave 2 and the
Hyper Spheres. The Suspended Wave is an outdoor piece that was hung from
the 30 metre high roof in the courtyard of the CCCB.
- Resonant Wave
Festival Spannwerk, Berlin, 25 May – 8 June. This international festival
brought together visual and performing artists from USA, Israel, UK and Germany. The new light sculpture, Manifold Wave was suspended from the 15 m high
ceiling of the main transformer hall in this converted power station.
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2001
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- Singapore
Science Centre, October 2001 – January 2002. One Man Show, 7 suspended
light sculptures hung from the 25 m high ceiling of the large central
atrium and exhibition space, shown here for the first time. The
exhibition also includes a retrospective selection of smaller works. Many
of the works including the largest piece, the 10 m tall Floating Wave
were subsequently purchased by the Science Centre and are now in their
permanent collection.
- Exit Festival,
Maisons des Arts, Creteil, Paris, 6 – 18 March. Major
exhibitor to this large international festival of performing and visual
arts. Pieces on show included a retrospective of works since 1981. The
most recent work, Wave Factory is 9 m tall.
- Via Festival,
Le Manege, Maubeuge, 30 March – 7 April. The Exit
Festival was taken on tour to northern France.
- Satellite
Media Services company HQ, UK, opened 1 August. Commission for permanent
installation, 4.6 m high light sculpture in the entrance to the new
building.
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2000
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- Nutopia, Britain’s first cyberlounge, Covent Garden, London, 2 January - 31 December. Light Waves III,
kinetic light sculpture, 2.5 m tall x 1.5 diameter.
- New Art
gallery, Walsall, November. Opening of major new art gallery which
commissioned one of my pieces for permanent display, see below for
details.
- for inter:face,
a festival organised by Digital Summer in Manchester, 13 – 22 October. The
Wave Factory, Installation of light art, mixed media, 7 x 6 x 6 m.
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1999
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- Commission for
the construction of a Nambu, an interactive light sculpture for
the New Art Gallery, Walsall. mixed media, 2.5 x 2 m diameter.
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1998
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- Receive the
Ushio America Award for Innovation, 16 April.
- Winner of
Lightforms ’98, international competition organised by ASCI for creation
of site specific interactive lightforms on a monumental scale. New York
Hall of Science, 16 April - 31 May. Dark Matter, 8 m tall x 2.5
m diameter.
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1997
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- Commission to
design and manufacture 3D scanner prototype for Tom DeWitt, American
video artist and inventor 1 – 30 April.
- Co-invent
'Megamouse' with my son, Jack, the mouse so large you have to sit on it
and push it round with your feet. Performance with Jack featuring
Megamouse and other light works at Technorama, Switzerland’s leading science museum.
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1996
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- Author of Zip
Art software for graphics and animation, a unique, powerful and fun
approach to computer graphics. Mathematical algorithms from Chaos theory
have been used to generate stunning imagery, but these take a long time
to render. Zip Art algorithms can be computed in real time. A user with
minimal drawing skills can create beautiful images with a choice of
hundreds of fractal like drawing tools.
- Commission for
two nine foot high interactive light sculptures commissioned for 'Energy
and Movement' by Mercedes Benz for hands on exhibition touring
throughout Germany.
- Open my own
website.
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1995
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- 4th
International Biennial in Nagoya ARTEC'95, Japan, 28 April – 25 June. Recommendatory
Prize for the work Light Waves.
- Art Museum, Walsall, England. 23 September – 5 November. One man show.
- Technorama, Switzerland’s
leading science museum. Commission for Light Spinner, Permanent
Installation: touch screen controlled interactive 4m high light
sculpture.
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1994
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- Art Museum, Walsall, England. Group Show of Light Art in the town museum, a place known for its annual
Light Spectacular.
- Technorama, Switzerland. Group
show: Lichtspielereien, various small works.
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1993
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- Economist's
Plaza, London February. Collaborative piece with Danny Lane, We made a
work together, Northern Light, a sand blasted glass construction like a
sail onto which I projected chromatic light. 6 x 20 x 4 m high.
- Images du
Futur, Montreal, Canada. Three kinetics: The Big String 6 m x 2
diameter, Optic Nerve, 2 x 2 diameter, Northern Light II, projection
work 1.8 x 6 m.
- BT Head
Office, Art in the City, London, 1 July – 30 September. 7 m tall fibre
optic sculpture, situated in a 100 foot high Atrium window close to St Paul's Cathedral.
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1992
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- Issue
commercial licence in USA for 'Light Guide Lamp'.
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1991
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- Issue
commercial licences in UK and USA for 'Optic Nerve'.
- Appearance of
'String Ray' on BBC 1 "Tomorrow's World".
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1990
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- Appearance on
BBC 2 "The Late Show".
- Exhibition,
Omphalos Gallery, London.
- Attend and
lecture, Arttransition '90, Centre for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT, Cambridge, USA.
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1989
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- Exhibition:
The Exploratory, Bristol;
- Exhibition:
The Young Unknowns, London.
- Electric
Angels, Slaughterhouse Gallery, London. First Installation of spinning
strings light sculptures illuminated with chromastrobic light.
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1988
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- Exhibition:
Omphalos Gallery, London.
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1985-1988
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- Lighting
director for the Electro-Acoustic Music Association of Great Britain.
Concerts held at: Place Theatre, October Gallery, The Royal College of
Music, The Almeida Theatre, Queen Elizabeth Hall. Performers include
Roger Smalley, Stephen Montague, Vocem, Metanoia, Francis Monkman and
Steve Reich.
- Lighting
director for Man Jumping, Queen Elizabeth Hall.
- Lighting
director for The Electric Symphony Orchestra. Concerts held at: Corn
Exchange, Cambridge, Bloomsbury Theatre, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Sadler's
Wells Theatre. Soloists include Francis Monkman and Terry Riley.
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1983
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- Exhibition
Event, first public show of light sculptures illuminated by
chromastrobic light, ICA, London.
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1982
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- Lighting
director for John Cooper-Clarke, U.K. tour.
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1980
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- Special
effects director , Oval House Theatre, London.
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1979
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- Lighting
director for Ken Campbell's 'The Warp', Edinburgh Festival Fringe &
The Round House, London.
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1978
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- Open Studio
exhibition, Space Studios, Lewisham, London.
- Lighting
director for Notting Hill Carnival.
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1977
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- Open Studio
exhibition, Space Studios, Lewisham, London.
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1976
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- Stage &
Lighting designer for Bristol Revunions, Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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1975
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- Stage &
Lighting designer for: Morphic Dance Co. Gulbenkian Foundation sponsored
stage play, Crediton Community Centre, Devon.
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1974
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- South Western
Arts Association sponsored touring exhibition.
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