Entrepreneurial Futures is finally on the move a £5.6 million Good Growth funded RD&I-led project supporting businesses in Cornwall. This significant cross-faculty project includes academics from each of our Schools and staff from The Bridge and FoAHB technical team, working across five thematic areas in collaboration with FoSE. I will be working with two creative […]

Future Growth 6 December 2024

Two new scanning projects in North Devon this month with surveys of Stafford Manor this house mentioned in the Domesday book and recorded as belonging to Ansger de Montacute, Stafford Manor has possibly existed since the 11th century. By the 1332 Lay Subsidy it had lost its “Manor” status and been subsumed by Iddlecott Manor. […]

Stafford Manor 3 December 2024

It was wonderful to take part in the ReShape disciplines conference at the British Academy, discussing the digital pros and cons of working with large institutions in research and innovation, particularly focused on the digital humanities. Some great speakers with work across our arts sectors including University of Cambridge, Edinburgh, and the University of Plymouth.

ReShape 3 December 2024

Great to start a new piece of work with Prideaux Place UK. The Prideaux family, an ancient Cornish clan, has been seated at Prideaux Place for over 425 years. Their origins go back almost one thousand years to the time of the Norman Conquest when they are recorded as Lords of the Manor at Prideaux […]

Prideaux Place Padstow South West UK 14 October 2024

Great to be involved with this conference. Today, the spaces and societies in which we live are infused with media and technology. Smart cities, digital sociology, Industry 4.0 and augmented realities are just a few of its examples. Simultaneously, there are places and practices untouched and unaltered by the effects of technology, whether due to […]

Arizona Society Spaces Screens 11 October 2024

FUTURES: Really nice to show our research work here at a Festival of Discovery its a public engagement collaboration between the University of Bath, Bath Spa University, University of Bristol, University of Exeter and University of Plymouth. Since 2018, for two days in the autumn, FUTURES has been an opportunity for people to discover more […]

Futures Festival of Discovery at the Royal William Yard Plymouth 5 October 2024

Thanks to the conference reviewers for accepting this submission, really looking forward to delivering the paper and talking about the projects. The conference seeks to explore the critical questions for the heritage sector today from various disciplinary perspectives. Whether they come from the fields of art and architectural history, cultural studies, digital heritage, social history […]

AMPS Conference 9 September 2024

It was great to be included in this conference in Liverpool in early September 2024 exploring the changes in the experience and imagining of everyday urban spaces following the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses on the processes of reimagining, remembering and remapping of everyday culture and experience through a post-pandemic lens. It considers the heterotopic glimpses […]

Post Pandemic Imaginaries 9 September 2024

Brilliant to have been awarded this grant to work with two emerging young designers on two huge projects, delivering R&D opportunities to two large organisations in the southwest, watch this space for further updates as the projects progress. https://fswi.org.uk/

Good Growth Immersive Awards X2 9 September 2024

So excited to receive this grant which has taken ages to get together, but to be successful on such a useful and far-reaching content is brilliant, the grant will last three years and will entail cataloguing and digital scanning of the ceiling at Lanhydrock House, a Jacobean masterpiece and charting its making and influences throughout […]

AHRC Grant Success 2024 9 August 2024

We were lucky to be awarded UKRI impact acceleration 23/24 Award(IAAs) these are strategic awards for research organisations to respond to impact opportunities in more flexible, responsive and creative ways. The research organisation is responsible for managing the UKRI IAAs to design and deliver activities that best suit their institutional strategies and opportunities. But the […]

IAA Case Study Collaboration 9 November 2023

Scanning commences this month at the National Trust in Cornwall. Excited to see what we can reveal in the forensic process of renovation and restoration. This is truly an amazing project to be part of. https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/cornwall/lanhydrock/the- history-of-lanhydrock

Scanning commences, National Trust, Cornwall 6 November 2023

During 2023 we have been in collaboration with `Perch and Ponder ’https://www.perchandponder.com/ and the National Trust to deliver a huge heritage communication project for the public. This has entailed the design of bespoke cabinets, visual photographic interpretation and scanned digital data, transformed into 3D printed objects; learning and delivering new stuff is one of the […]

New Collaboration 9 October 2023

The final MA Design Show, wonderfully supported by Market Hall and the team at RIO https://realideas.org/ we created some content for the dome https://real- immersive.realideas.org/ and managed to show a scaled down show of final major projects, challenging in the circumstances (those who know, know) but well done all!!

The final MA Design Show 6 October 2023

A quick talking visit to Barcelona https://www.ub.edu/portal/ web/bellesarts/and Girona https://www.udg.edu/en/ to promote the school of art/architecture and design and to quickly scan Dali’s front door!! All in a day’s work https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/museums/ house-salvador-dali-in-portlligat/ thanks to the curation team at Portlligat.

Barcelona, Girona, and Dali 6 September 2023

Really lucky to have visited the CAVE BUREAU exhibition at https:// louisiana.dk/en/ fabulous gallery and experience. Using 3D laser-scanning technology, @Cave_bureau captures the geometries of caves and reconceptualises them as geological structures of architectural heritage that can be reused to generate new reproductions of architecture for the pressing needs of the twenty- first century. Brilliant […]

CAVE BUREAU Exhibition 6 July 2023

Our first visit for an exciting project with the National Trust. The Long Gallery will undergo a huge restoration over the next couple of years, we are there to record and interpret that transformation ….super excited, more news to follow on this one!! https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/place/lanhydrock

National Trust 5 May 2023

Exploring Ocean Week in Bergen for potential research links with the Southwest UK for marine sustainability. Also took the opportunity to talk and show work at the excellent KMD in Bergen, amazing facilities, thanks to all the staff there. https://www.oneoceanweek.com/en/ https://kmd.uib.no/en/frontpage

Exploring Ocean Week 6 April 2023

Talking and showing work in Antwerp – Powered by Creatives Conference. My talk was about material I have used to detail experimentations so far and how this contributes to new dialogues in fabrication, lidar scanning and heritage ….extremely good beer!! https://www.apbc.be/

Creatives conference, Antwerp 6 April 2023

Finally finishing work for Powderham Castle in Devon. An extended project out of the iMayflower Projects, which should continue into 2024 as digital heritage and the potentiality for health benefits particularly for those suffering from PTSD. https://www.powderham.co.uk/

Powderham Castle 3 March 2023

At the Goethe Institute during December to see Eduardo Miranda talk about and show a demonstration of his work in quantum, our tree work will eventually pay off !! A few famous faces were there too!! STUDIO QUANTUM A new international events and artist-in-residence programme from the Goethe-Institute, exploring emerging quantum technologies through the lens […]

Studio Quantum 6 February 2023

Finally had time to show some of the experimentation with the printers this month, it was great to see them finally all together. The original forms/codes from the 18th century had been altered to morph into new structures, some retaining the suggestion of the bodies of the originals, looking forward to showing these soon!!

forms/codes 8 November 2022

Really pleased to take part in https://amps-research.com/conference/visioning/ with a piece of work on Materializing Data, a very physical representation of data through fabrication. Wonderful bunch of panellists and a great experience.

Materializing Data 8 November 2022

It’s been fabulous working with Lynne Elvin’s again from https://www.designrally.co.uk/ working with new company’s in the south west of the UK to generate more traction on reach and influence. We have been lucky to work with Co-Cars Polenize https://www.pollenize.org.uk/ and Beryl Bikes https://beryl.cc/ this time round, generating amazing impact across their services.

Polenize 8 October 2022

The Nomadic Image: https://ucentralasia.org/nomadic-image-2022-programme Thrilled to present our Treescapes project at the conference remotely from Plymouth https://i-dat.org/the-nomadic-image-2022/ ‘Somewhere’ not quite here or there’…The complex geometries of trees…Can technical lidar scanning capture poetically the echoes and natural transformations of the seasonal changes of a single Birch tree. How can this data capture help in defining and […]

The Nomadic Image 8 July 2022

Ludic Architecture at Market Hall with the British Council working with four Chinese University and Design/Architecture and Fine Art to deliver an amazing virtual workshop in the Dome!! Participants worked on live projects together from different sides of the world, in real time, shaping, sculpting, designing. Ludic-Architectures is a speculative design space that allows the […]

Ludic Architecture 8 July 2022

Great to take part in the ‘Power of Collaborative Action’ an annual workshop devoted to showcasing great examples of collaboration between Higher Education and the arts and cultural sectors. Funded by Research England, NCACE was launched in 2021 to facilitate and support capacity for Knowledge Exchange between Higher Education and the arts and cultural sector […]

Power of Collaborative Action 8 March 2022

Printing through the month of March with the large format WASP printer, finally, some time to clay fabricate and experiment with the WASP – link to give an idea of scale – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR-zYmYqpNQ

WASP 8 March 2022

Powerdham Castle in Devon, exploring the connection the digital may have with heritage, health and archives. Collecting and archiving architectural sections of the castle so people with disabilities might have better access to heritage sites https://www.powderham.co.uk/

Powerdham Castle 8 February 2022

Field Trip to the Bervie Brow Bunker, scanning the remnants of ‘cold war’ history. The 28-acre research field site and creative habitat is a historic Cold War radar and listening station on the north-east coast of Scotland. It was built in the 1950s as an RAF Rotor early warning radar station, and later used by […]

Bervie Brow Bunker 8 February 2022

Working with Nudge Community Builders to re-imagine the Millennium in Devonport, focusing on a showcase of our MA Design students work in this incredible space. https://www.nudge.community/

Re-imagine the Millennium 8 January 2022

Culmination of the iMayflower Project, working with the Box on Reclaim the Night (Plymouth after Dark)Exciting visualisation of the timeline of all the iconic venues of Plymouth music scene. https://www.theboxplymouth.com/communities/plymouth-after-dark

iMayflower Project 8 January 2022

Treescapes a collaboration between UK Forestry, Hydrology and the Environment, Exeter University, detailing whether forestry, climate change and wind damage, can be better managed by creative uses of material data collection using lidar.

Treescapes 8 December 2021

ART/EARTH – High Water 30th March: Great to be invited to present some new prototype work with this global community https://art-earth.org.uk/high-water/ This work continues the scanning of coastline and estuary to monitor tide/weather/climate erosion, using unique framerate techniques. Tides are the constant ebb and flow of the planet, the stuff of myth and legend, artwork, […]

ART/EARTH – High Water 30 March 2021

DATA showcase 26th March: Really happy to participate in this great day of things DATA https://www.swctn.org.uk/2021/03/11/data-showcase-schedule/ in the launching of a new research platform www.sensewithdata.org with fellows Natasha, Annie and Alex: We will update this to explore the material aspects of data with a library of inspiring and conversational stuff around data. You can watch […]

DATA showcase 26 March 2021

‘Twisted Continents’ additional works underway for a major show in 2021: The significance of the research has implications across a range of disciplines and adds to the debate on ‘the material turn’ The work draws from new work in material ontologies from Harmon and Morton. The use of scanning processes, directly connected to both visualization […]

‘Exploded Vase’ December 2020 30 December 2020

May 2020: Working with Artec work is progressing with the landscape series, these scans developed with use of the large RAY and smaller Leo have generated some interesting outcomes ready for use with game engines. This work is about our connection to the earth and ecologies of thinking, while forensically recording the data that they […]

May 2020: Working with Artec 31 May 2020

May 2020:  The Lockdown Trails, we have been working with Lutum https://vormvrij.nl/lutum/ on several clay fabrications of original lidar scans, it been quite strange doing things differently but Lutum with a range of brilliant printers have been wonderful to work with, these objects are part of an exhibition later in the year (all being well)

May 2020: The Lockdown Trails 31 May 2020

Group show of work by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, R. B. Kitaj, Frank Auerbach, Michael Clark, Sir Peter Blake, Eduardo Paolozzi, Patrick Caulfield, Daniel Chadwick, Langlands and Bell, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, Pete Quinn Davis, Gary Hume and Tracy Emin: Celebrating the art of London 70/80/90’s The exhibition will be accompanied by the official release […]

Dellasposa Gallery, London 2020 26 April 2020

A multi million pound research initiative focusing on AI, Automation and Data, for professionals, business, creatives and academics.

SWTNC DATA Fellowship Award 2020 26 February 2020

Happy to have given a talk and exhibited over two venues during Dutch Design Week always a great pleasure.

Dutch Design Week – Prototypes October 2019 26 October 2019

This exhibition works on this year themes at DDW2019. Almost everything in the world has been or is being designed. This offers opportunities, but with this come enormous responsibilities; for designers, but also for policy makers, clients, users and governments. The world belongs to us all. Director Martijn Paulen explains about the role of designers: […]

Dutch Design Week 10 July 2019

Installation Film. Three screen projection, data visualizations, this exhibition had several significant strands, namely, museums and the public perception of objects, their meaning and constructs, the digital scanning of data, manufacture and fractural fabrication.

Rotation One 24 June 2018

Exhibition of digital print works (rolled aluminum laser printing from 3D scanning)

Apparition 2018 24 June 2018

Featuring renowned piano-makers Steinway & Sons, with presentations from pioneering music researchers from University of Plymouth and performances from Hot Chip.

Cookworthy Sonic Crafts Week 2017 24 June 2017

Now in its sixth year, the festival will run from 23-27 October 2018 at numerous locations across Bath. But Bath Digital Festival isn’t just for computer geeks! Last year over 2000 individuals, ranging in age from pre-school to pensioners, took part in more than 80 events across 26 venues. With a focus on making the […]

Bath Digital Festival 2017 24 June 2017

Statement: Our increasingly mediated relationship with the environment brings new insights to the invisible forces that affect complex ecologies, consequently our environment is becoming more abstract, simulated and remote. Balance-UnBalance 2017 This work is a result of some research into four objects at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery. They were made in the 1700’s […]

Balance Unbalance 2017 24 June 2017

Arc Karst: Specular, International group exhibition, KARST, Plymouth (curator Karen Roulstone and Andy Klunder)

ARC Karst 2016 24 June 2016

Milan Design Week 2015: Forge FIX: This work provokes debate and engages with an exchange of ideas about the universal impact of design in contemporary culture, it explores design’s potential as a transformative global tool. The work innovates in several areas within the post digital field, it involves robotic fabrication at unique scales. The research […]

MILAN Design Week 2015 24 June 2015

An exhibition keying in how we look at art and design, focusing on the temporality of media and exploring digital products.

Dutch Design Week 2015 24 June 2015

Design Latitudes is an exhibition mapping the innovations, influences and future directions of design studies in the north. The exhibition ran from May 12 to June 6, 2015 at the Fine Arts Building Gallery on the University of Alberta, Canada.

Design Latitudes 2015 24 June 2015

This exhibition originated in several places over the globe, through conversations with designers, from a variety of backgrounds, from China to Holland, from London to Paris, from the West Country of the UK to the wild slopes of Hardangervidda in Norway. Those conversations centred on the ability designers have to develop products, graphics, spaces, places […]

Envelope: What Designers Value: 2014 15 May 2014

This exhibition was devised in late 2010 as a way of bringing together a group of interested individuals who work in the School of Architecture and Design in University of Plymouth UK, it was not selected, but themed and it has gradually evolved to represent individuals responses, in creative terms, to the collections and archives […]

Exhibition 2012: Cabinet—Changing Perceptions 15 May 2012