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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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2017
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- Wave
Garden, kinetic installation, Spectra Aberdeen UK,
9-12 February, 6 metres tall x 12 x 2m
- Wave
Garden, kinetic installation, 10th
Kinetica Exhibition, London, 17-19 February
- Spinning
Cosmos, installation with kinetics and multiscreen projection, Art Futura Roma, 29 April – 10
September, 8 metres tall x 12 x 12m
- Light
Loom, kinetic installation, Shambala Festival, UK, 25 – 27 August,
Kinetic installation constructed in woodland glade, incorporating trees
into structure, 7.5 metres tall x 7.5 x 1m
- Light
Loom, kinetic installation, Enlighten Bury, UK,
20 – 21 October, Kinetic installation
- Dancing
Wave, kinetic installation, 7 November, Technology and Emotions Conference, Norwegian
University of Science and Technology, Oslo, Norway.
- Undulation, kinetic
installation, 20 Nov – 20 December, Growth Form and Self-organisation,
Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge University
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2016
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- Winner
ATA Award, BEEP Electronic in association with Eurocat
grant for new media artwork entitled Earth Signals, (under
construction)
- Gravitational
Waves, kinetic installation, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Mayball, 14 June, 5 metres tall x15 x 15m
- Wave
Garden (indoors), kinetic installation, Daejeon Museum of Art,
South Korea, 26 July- 20 November, 6 metres tall x 13 x 5 m
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2015
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- Wave
Garden, kinetic installation, Leeds White Night, 9 October, 7 metres
tall x 10 x 2m
- The
New Atlantis, talk, performance and stage lighting design
for The Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments, St Mary’s in the
Castle, Hastings, UK, 26 July
- Kinetic
Light Sculpture, commission permanently on show at Singapore
Science Centre, opened 30 May, 7.5 metres tall x 2 x 2 m
- Interactive
Wave, commission permanently on show at Phanomenta Science Centre,
Germany, opened May, 4 metres tall x 2 x 3 m
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2014
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- Dancing
Waves, kinetic installation, Kinetica Art Fair, London, 16…19 October,
3 x 3 x 3 metres
- Wave
Garden, outdoor kinetic installation,
Lumina Light Festival, Cascais, Portugal, 11…13 September, 7 metres tall
x 10 x 2m
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2013
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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.
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2012
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- 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.
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2011
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- 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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