Istanbul 2008

These small landscapes bear the physical traces of places, people animals plants and objects encountered at an international performance festival in Istanbul in 2008.

Marks were made by collecting dust and debris from the environment with a sticky lint roller in and around the Galata/Karakoi district of the city. Each encounter involved an active engagement with the subject [a large feral dog, sunning itself in the street,was the most daunting!]

Northumbrian Coast 2011 - 2012

Drawings were made by moving paper over the hot embers of a driftwood beach fire. A makeshift tool was used to hold the paper in place - a bulldog clip attached to the end of a stick. Different levels of heat and arrangements of burning wood, as well as the pressure, direction, speed and duration of each action determined the nature of the marks created.