Introduction
Inspired by exploration, my arts practice documents experiences of journeys through a collection of written and visual details. An archival record of photographs, drawings, paintings, routes, itineraries, weather reports and kit lists are made for each cycle tour, walk, field trip, climb or expedition. New online work looks at a relationship of people and place through a growing archive of photography-led narratives, large-scale mapping works and sculptural interventions. The twin sites of Mappalogue and GuideToHere show details of field studies, reports, artworks, exhibitions, recent publications, commissions and residencies.
My research interests are photographic mapping and transformative cartography, and the year before last I moved back to the UK having spent two years making field studies in the Haute-Savoie, France. Previous to that, I made a series of discoveries and works during an eight-month stay in Catalunya, Spain. I am a member of the British Cartographic Society and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).
I am currently engaged in independent research at the Foyle Reading Room archive, RGS, London. This research provides an environmental context in which to inform an ambitious and over-arching research project The Moving Landscape: a physical and emotional geography of place. To inform new works, I am gathering reference in the form of books, maps and objects held in the RGS collections relating to the language of exploring landscapes. The project involves making new photographic works, writings, paintings and drawings and an online channel for dissemination. The aim is to build a body of work that will act as a guide.
