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Another Brick in The Wall<\/span><\/h2>\n

A collaboration with photographer Simon Phipps, exploring the architectural, philosophical, sociological and cultural heritage of the ‘plateglass’ universities.<\/p>\n

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Every House on Langland Road<\/h2>\n

A map commissioned for the Garden of Reason at Ham House<\/h3>\n

A collaboration with photographer Simon Phipps, bringing together archival and architectural perspectives on Netherfield, a 1970s social housing project in Milton Keynes.<\/p>\n

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Sylvarum: Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained<\/h2>\n

A map commissioned for the Garden of Reason at Ham House<\/h3>\n

Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained brings together a collection of notions relating to the 17th century house at Ham in Surrey. Each layer, accessed from the buttons on the right hand side, corresponds to a theme of materials which are then drawn onto the relevant part of the map.<\/p>\n

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Raising the standard<\/h2>\n

An installation commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Jersey from German Occupation<\/h3>\n

This installation comprised 12 one minute long video loops, installed on small 5″ monitors wall hung around the Berni Gallery at the Jersey Arts Centre.
\nEach work distilled a part of the island’s identity and was accompanied by a very low volume soundtrack of relatively obscure 1960’s music to create a whispering soundtrack for the whole gallery. Two samples:<\/p>\n