The image shows some of the work I've been developing as part of my 'indexical traces' which hopefully will feature in my degree show coming up from the 19th June to the 25th June at the Djanogly Gallery Nottingham.
I'm also doing an artists talk at the University of Nottingham on May the 14th as per this link: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cas/aboutus/events/cedric-ford-art-exhibition.aspx
Come along and here what I've been up to...

The Precipice (A still from my latest video work)

In my latest work I've been using a walk I used to do as a child in Wales called the Precipice walk.

Taking the notion of 'precipice' I've then over-layed this to explore my local woodland walk, how the traces people have left show their lives to physically & spiritually be on 'the edge' and how ecologically we live on the precipice.

The still above shows how two projections will overlap and juxtapose on two screens.

Following my Interlaced walk (on the 17th of February) I have created this Gif called 'Echo - Falls - White - Storm' which considers and plays with the text found in the urban landscape. The speed of the animation lasting less than 15 seconds echoes the rapid pace of our digital lifestyles and is juxtaposed against the 2.25 hours taken to do the walk and collected the text based images...

Another Artists Walk today [Interlaced] a chance to reconnoitre the urban landscape of Nottingham. This image captured during the two hours reminded me that there is always more to a moment than that which we first see... 

I've found this old TV casing on my walks and it has caused me to think about how I frame the landscape; and how as I do this what I see through the aperture takes on a surreal form. There is a short video clip on the following Youtube link...

http://youtu.be/mfkXRbNQjdU

The Landscape Framed

Another Walk With Me... artists led walk is rapidly approaching see this link  http://goo.gl/TpOC0 for more information. The event is part of the Nottingham Festival of Words, and 4 artists including me will be collecting words from the landscape as we reconnoitre. The image shows an artists map I've just completed inspired by this interlaced theme of the walk. 

'Zola's Landscap'e N. Gear 2012 (Still from the video)

In my latest video piece 'Zola's Landscape' I have thought about the way in which Emile Zola wrote of how artwork is a window out onto creation. Inspired by this notion and it's exploration of surface and openings I have started with another frame, video footage though my bedroom window, to think about the relationship between my internal and external landscape.
This work has been chosen to be included in the University of Nottingham's Cedric Ford Exhibition, starting in Feb 2013.