De Motu
Single Channel Video on Metal Plinth with Speaker (2025)
Installed at APT Studios, London.
The selected video De Motu (2025 reiteration) documents a journey through the Peak District to the mystical site of Mermaids Pool, where a water nymph is believed to reside with the power to grant humans either immortality or death. The juddering waves capture the artist’s slow movements, as he treks towards the pool. A poetic text captions the video, questioning what it is to walk the line between myth and reality as water overtakes the land. For ‘Which of the two is more Real: the invisible motion in the pursuit itself, or the undiscovered, unseen creatures below the surface?’
Installation of Video, Projection and Print (2020)
Installed at BACKLIT Gallery, Nottingham.
According to folklore, the pool is connected to the Atlantic Ocean by an underground tunnel, as well as being the dwelling place of an immortal water nymph. In an installation of print, projection and screen, the artist presents a nine mile journey to the pool, undertaken in sub-zero conditions. The static fuzz generated from audio-data recordings of the harsh winds, acts as a peripheral to the CRT-encased film. The title, translating to of motion, is an echo of the idea that the existence of specific matter may not need evidential investigation, as all of reality is emotional, conceptual, and perceptual.
