towards a possible biography #9 [ an attempt to construct a partial but credible personal history through the assemblage of a selection of documented biographical details considered likely to be true ]

 

 

 

 

 

Artist, and designer.

Born in the north of England, where he lived and studied until moving to South Wales to further his training in the early eighties. Here he continued to develop a studio based practice centred around his activities as a painter; while developing an engagement with performance and time based media, and a connection with the possibilities of experimental theatre through contact and involvement with the contemporary performance practice of companies such as Cardiff Laboratory Theatre, Moving Being and Brith Gof.

By the end of the eighties he was based within the, then internationally renowned, theatre department of Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. And over the subsequent ten years worked and collaborated extensively within contemporary theatre, in Wales and abroad, acquiring a wide spread reputation for his activities as both a stage and lighting designer.

In recent years his work has focused largely upon the production of durational objects and interventions, holistic ambients, radical structures of presentation, and context specific performance works. Concentrating both artistically and practically upon the proposal and development of innovative practices and strategies within the form, function, and placement of live art. Producing notable and influential works at a range of scales, within an international arena.

Most significant, perhaps, being those actions and pieces produced within the ongoing collaboration of Pearson/Brookes: 'dead men's shoes' -1997, 'the first five miles' -1998, 'the man who ate his boots' -1998, 'body of evidence' -1998, 'just a little bit of history repeating' -1999, 'but it will turn out wrong' -2000, 'like a pelican in the wilderness' -2000, 'carrying Lyn' -2001, 'polis' -2001, 'rain dogs' -2002, and 'who are you looking at' -2004

These works have provoked the use and integration of elements as diverse as photography, sampling, large scale and multiple projection, short-range and satellite radio broadcast technology, mobile telecommunications, helicopters, cars, trains, surveillance camera and monitoring equipment, and the employment of software led tools within creation and control.

In 2007 he was appointed Creative Research Fellow within the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Most recently, he has returned to the studio to focus on the long term development of a new series gallery works.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

for further details please see materials archived at .../shame, .../ambivalence + .../hope

 

 

 

 

 

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