Transfer approved

After a six month process my Application to Transfer from study for an MPhil to a Doctor of Philosophy at De Montfort was finally approved. 17 April 2014.  Hurray!

3D Exhibition at Quad

Saturday 14 December 2013 to Sunday 23 February 2014,
QUAD Art Gallery in Derby, is hosting an exhibition of 3D artwork in the show 'X-Y-Z' - and I'm a featured artist.

3D Family Trees

I did a holography demonstration and talk about my research to the Southampton Astronomical Society on 11 April 2013 as a Public Engagement activity.  

After my talk Michael Hobbs of the SAS introduced me to the Progeny 3D family tree.  I contacted Progengy and the company have kindly given me access to their 3D software and a sample family tree - in return for my producing them a lenticular.  I'm very grateful to Michael Hobbs for the introduction.  I am also grateful to SAS member Bill Wakefield who showed me the beautiful Camera Obscura he had built in his loft.  

It's amazing how useful public engagement with one's research can be! 

Nodes and Networks

These are my facebook connections - and a visual record of their communications.  These images - along with the data from Dr Sadie Jones' research into material escaping from Black Holes - gave me the idea of representing family members and the connections between them as nodes and networks, rather than as a linear progression.  This approach feels much more holistic/realistic/rich and reminds me of family constellations.

Holography Unit

My work was exhibited at the Glue Factory, Glasgow from September 14, 2012–October 6, 2012.

The show was the first retrospective of The Royal College of Art's Holography Unit, 1985–94 and included over 40 holograms from the world's first Fine Art Holography course.  I had two holograms exhibited - the image below is 'Kirsti' an 8"x10" Pulsed Portrait Reflection Hologram, Pearl John 1991 and 'Shop' an 10"x 8" white-light transmission multiplex hologram - both images from the collection of Jonathan Ross.

I've just exhibited 8 lenticulars at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition.  The exhibition ran from 3-8 July 2012 at the Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London.  

The photos below show me installing the exhibit - with the help of Dr James Gates, myself and Dr Sadie Jones - who contributed astronomy data for the project.  Sandra Oliveira, from De Montfort University holography group kindly filmed the exhibit in 3D for me.  

12,000 visitors saw the exhibit and 4,000 postcards - scientific versions of the artwork -were taken by visitors in 4 days.  A great success!

Looking for a metaphor

I'm working on my three-dimensional family tree hologram.  I need a metaphor to work with.  I am going to be depicting generations of my family stacked up - and overlapping in space within my holograms and I need to organise - or arrange - my images.   I'm working on how best to do that.  The candle imagery feels  relevant.  The candles have a spiritual aspect, they give off light and move.  My tiny holographic videos will appear to give off light - if I use a dark background, and the moving images will flicker as the viewer moves in front of them.