It’s all about the view. These are my own image spotlights, bringing my working and thinking practice into focus: how I made specific pieces, and what ideas I brought into the frame.
NOTEBOOK SPOTLIGHT: Wing of Life commission Commissioned by the PCC of All Saints Church, Lydiard Millicent, Swindon, part of the church reordering project with Benjamin & Beauchamp, etched by Leadbitter Glass, 2024-2025. Featuring drawings by pupils at Lydiard Millicent CE Primary School: Cassidy, Pavith, Xanthe, Esme, Teddy-James, Beatrix, Jacob, Quinton, Mia, Kenza, Lily, Alfie, Isla, and […]
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NOTEBOOK SPOTLIGHT: The Rise of Summer commission Commissioned by the Bishop of Bristol’s Office for the Rt Revd Vivienne Faull and her husband Dr Michael Duddridge, on the occasion of Bishop Viv’s retirement in August 2025. The Rise of Summer is a photographic landscape panorama, depicting composite elements of the Bishop of Bristol’s garden at Church Lane in
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NOTEBOOK SPOTLIGHT: Genesis and The New Passage Genesis was created from 60 photographs, taken from incrementally different angles, of butterfly wings suspended in a fish tank; The New Passage was created from 12 photographs taken at half-hour intervals from this spot on the Severn Estuary, UK. In each case the images are interlaced by a computer programme which
Lenticular lenses in view Read More »
NOTEBOOK SPOTLIGHT: Face-Off 25 March 2007 marked 200 years to the day that a Parliamentary Bill was passed to abolish the slave trade in the British colonies. Set All Free, an exhibition held that year at the Grant Bradley Gallery in Bristol, displayed work by 11 contemporary artists presenting individual responses to this anniversary. Here
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NOTEBOOK SPOTLIGHT: Scriptorium The text below is adapted from publication in ‘Photography as the Bible’s New Illumination’, in Transforming Christian Thought in the Visual Arts: Theology, Aesthetics, and Practice (Routledge, 2021), pp.55-58; and also from VT Issue 1, pp.16-17. Scriptorium consists of sixty-five pages of unbound biblical text, printed white on blue with the cyanotype
Running the script for a blueprint Bible Read More »
NOTEBOOK SPOTLIGHT: Remembrance Rood Screen This is an 8-panel, 35-aperture photographic installation, displayed in the south transept at St Cyriac’s Church, Lacock. Remembrance Rood Screen commemorates the service and commitment shown by local servicemen and women during the First World War. The piece is the culmination of a community art project in which residents were
Picturing poppies: remembering the community Read More »
NOTEBOOK SPOTLIGHT: Natal I almost don’t know how to write. It’s Holy Week (or Still Week, as in Denmark; or Suffering Week, Germany). This year, more than most, I find myself small in the face of Christendom’s elegiac, centuries’ old commemoration of Jesus’ last hours. I’m feeling it partly because of my husband’s seried, close
Dreaming of the resurrection Read More »
NOTEBOOK SPOTLIGHT: Canopy Compass Rose A church or chapel speaks of orientation. Through the language of architecture, aspect, and direction, you are invited to reorient yourself with the divine. Here in Trinity College’s Chapel, the late 18th century Grade II listed building only became a space for collective worship in the 1960s, and prior to this it was
A sacred canopy in college Read More »
NOTEBOOK SPOTLIGHT: Finding Freedom Originally produced for the Corner Art Prize 2001, where this piece won First Prize. Held at Church on the Corner in Islington, London, the competition asked for visual or sculptural responses to the following Bible passage, Matthew 6: 19-21: Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust
Finding Freedom in Bristol Read More »
NOTEBOOK SPOTLIGHT: 6 Days of Uncreation The text that follows is an edited version of a presentation of my first year’s doctoral research, in which I discussed my photographic series 6 Days of Uncreation. This series of composite photography builds a fracturing picture of global habitats, earth as humankind has found and used it. It
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