Watershed+, Lead artists for the Pilot Period of the Watershed+ Public Art Program, Calgary, Canada
6 Acres, permanent installation in public space, commisioned by Up projects as part of the Hidden Gardens, London, England
Land, Landscape design for University of Worcester, in collaboration with Becky Sobell and BCA Landscape, England
Laycock Park, Artist for the redevelopment of Laycock park, part of the Calgary UEP Public Art strategy
Limelight: Saturday night, international installation, commissioned by Artisphere, Arlington Virginia
Past works
2011
-Charmouth Bridge, Design of footbridge in collaboration
with engineers, Dorset, England
-Iconic site, temporary installation commisionned by Margate Arts Creativity Heritage, Margate, England.
The project was runner up for the Liberty Kent Public Art Award
-Wildlife, collaboration with Magnetic North Theatre for a new production
-Limelight: Saturday night temporary light installation, London, Newcastle, Glasgow,
Inverness, Arlington, Kansas City
-Watershed+, Long term plan to place creativity at the heart of the city's watershed
related projects. In collaboration with a water engineer, a social geographer, a designer and an architect. Calgary, Canada
-Whitehaven, design for permanent work for a new development with RMJM architects, Whitehaven, England
-Millennium Promenade, Public space, in collaboration with Grants Landscape architects, Bristol Harbourside
2009
-Fogo Island, work on people's relationship with place through cooking, fishing and seafaring knowledge. With Erika Irmler. Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada
-Walden, collaboration with Magnetic North Theatre on the adaptation of Thoreau's book. Tour in Scotand
-Morecambe West end, Artist consultant, Lancashire
-Històries i Llocs, the exploration of personal memory in relation to the notion of place, Priorat, Spain
-Iconic site, temporary installation commisionned by Silverlink, Newcastle
2008
-Parterre, A permanent work, public space, Bristol
-Iconic site, temporary installation commisionned by Places Matter!, Liverpool
-Odd sympathies, sonic walks devised as a musical score, in collaboration with composer John Metcalf, temporary intervention for Artes Mundi, Cardiff
-Walden, collaboration with Magnetic North Theatre on the theatrical rendition of Thoreau's Walden, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
-Namesake, permanent installation and publications, Long Eaton, Derbyshire
-Collaborative art practice in the public realm, presentation of the development of a collaborative art practice and its place as creative actor in the urban realm.
Part of the Art + Design Now series, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary
An artist and an architect collaboration, presentation of the processes and the development of a cross-discplinary practice in the field of art. Manchester School of Architecture
Pecha Kutcha Night, presentation of Watershed+, introducing creative practices at the heart a Municipal Water Services Department and Resources as valid actors in design teams.
For Pecha Kutcha Night Calgary.
-The Oxford experiment, workshop session exploring the importance of personal memories of objects and places, for
Human creativity: ecologies and practices of invention, international seminar exploring the idea and practice of human creativity through discussions deriving from objects in the
Pitt Rivers Museum collection, University of Oxford. A Mellon Foundation funded Sawyer seminar.
-Artist Architect collaboration, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
-Practice profile, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
-Art and infrastructure, a sustainable relationship, presentation of the role and place of art in thinking about infrastructures, focusing on water and sustainability.
Presentation and resource guest for session for the Canadian Water Innovation Lab 2010, a collaborative unconference
event designed to cultivate informed leaders, influence policy, and strengthen the Canadian water stewarship network. Calgary
-Public art, architecture and the making of places, for
Experimenting with Geography: See-hear-make-do, international workshop and seminar on experimental audio, visual and site specific methods for research in geography. University of Edinburgh
-Engagement and collaboration in the public realm, presentation of our art practice to the MA Arts and Policy Management course, focusing on engagement and collaboration in the public
realm. Birkbeck College, University of London
2009
-Artist + Architect=Sans façon, presentation of our art practice, for Art through Architecture (AtA), a partnership program of
Charlotte Street Foundation and
American Institute of Architects-Kansas City, Gallery La Esquina, Kansas City, Missouri
- A meaningful role for the artist in the public realm, for the 2nd annual art and urban design conference "A place for Creativity?", Salford
- Changing Artist's/ People's Perception of what Artists can do, for the Fly Eric Symposia No 2,
Storey Gallery, Lancaster
2008
-What's art got to do with it? conference on the role of creative practioners in place shaping, Bolton
-Future Research on Art and Greenspace, workshop with artists and geographers, researchers in the department of Geography, University of Edinburgh
-Els altres paisatges del vi, round table moderated by anthropologist Octavi Rofes, Falset, Spain
-An artist practice within the planning process, an artist's perspective where collaboration has taken place at the start of the planning process, Nottingham
-An art and architecture collaborative practice, part of the series Making buildings, from the doorstep to the city a series of talks from architects
and engineers to discuss their experience of the building process Architecture department, The Bartlett, UCL, London
-Sans façon, presentation of our art practice as part of a series of artists' talks to RMJM Architects, Glasgow
2007
-Negotiating an art practice in the public realm, presentation the collaborative/confrontational process of some of our work in public settings.
For the National Public Art conference, organised by Art and Architecture Journal. Nottingham
-Practice profileA collaborative art practice, presentation of a collaborative approach within a city s department as part of an art project; for Calgary City s Park department
and the Planning department, Calgary, Canada
-Artist and architect practice, for Critical Debatesupported by A-N's 'Networking Artists Networks' programme, Durham
-Collaborative Public Art practice, for Art and the Built EnvironmentSymposium presenting radical developments in the context of art and urban spaces, offering artists,
architects, planners and developers a critical insight into key projects around the UK that are using professional artists as an integral part of redevelopment.
Organised by Art Gene, Barrow in Furness
2006
-Sans façon and Becky Shaw in conversation: "Forgotten places", for Sideshow, Nottingham
-BP Scotland, presentation of the potential of commissioning artists works in relation to Peterhead's geographical location and the involvement of an artist as part of the new BP
power station
-Art and Places, presentation of the project behind the organisation of the Perception, people, place, the art of regeneration conference, introducing the idea of the artist
as an essential actor in the fabric of the built environment, looking at the wider role of the artist as part of a process through its participation in the debate. Peterhead
-First year Architecture, Design and Fine Art, Glasgow school of Art, part of the impetus for these is to create discussion and debate across the different schools and disciplines.
-Visual Arts and Gallery Association VAGA, REALISE your right to art launch. Part of the long term to raise the profile of the visual arts and place them at the heart of society.
Street Level Gallery, Glasgow
-Peacock Visual Arts Gallery, Series of talks, Aberdeen
Exhibitions
2008
While the city breathes, a collection of images submitted by artists, curators, designers, architects andcritics, as a silent discussion, Campbell Works, London.
2007
Observatori 2007, international festival of artistic investigation of Valencia. Spain
2006
A-WAL, web exhibition, curated by Kathy Battista
2002
En passant, solo exhibition, Sacy-le-Petit, France
Traces, group exhibition, RK Burt, London
2001
CATS, Dundee Contemporary Arts, group exhibition, Dundee
Stirring the City, group exhibition, The Lighthouse, Glasgow
2000
Royal Scottish Academy, group exhibition, Edinburgh