About

We have worked together as an artist partnership since the early 1990s creating multi-media installations and interventions in response to a wide range of sites.  We are fascinated by the blurring of boundaries between real and virtual space, light, material and architecture. We use projection, light, illusion, interactivity and sound to create immersive installations to explore the processes behind the world of appearances and facades and to reveal hidden narratives or create ambiguous meanings.

We have always been interested in taking the image beyond the screen to create a more physical, visceral experience for the viewer. This can be seen in our early large-scale projection works of the 1990s such as Fastbuild and Fountainhead and then later with the large-scale projection work Floe, commissioned by Hull UK City of Culture 2017.  

We have been awarded numerous commissions and residencies and often collaborate or work with other professionals as part of a team. We have a site-specific approach and use diverse technologies from low-tech, natural light projection to 3-D laser scanning and high-speed film.

Recent work includes In Visible Light commissioned by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew for Meadowland at Wakehurst, Winds of Change a special commission for Spectra Light Festival 2024 which has now become part of Aberdeen Art Gallery’s permanent collection and Entry – a commission for the b-side multimedia festival 2023 which was developed in response to Brandy Row – a row of derelict Tudor Cottages.

Other recent large-scale commissions include the long-listed Aesthetica 2024 Art Prize film Anthro Zoo, which was originally shown in 2022 at the Great North Museum in Newcastle as part of North of the Tyne, Under the Stars event; Once a Desert for Chester Cathedral (2022);  Limelight (2021) commissioned by Trust New Art for Lindisfarne Castle on Holy Island; Luminary, created for Crossness Pumping Station in London, commissioned by Peabody in partnership with Crossness Engines Trust (2019); Aerial, a film installation commissioned for The Birds Without Borders exhibition at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter and Ship of the Gods, a large scale video projection, light and soundscape event commissioned by Absolutely Cultured as part of Urban Legends: Northern Lights and shown at Hull Minster in 2018.

Alongside this we have also been working on a longer term project as commissioned artists for the Hull Yorkshire’s Maritime City project, developing work inspired by the city’s maritime history and collection.

From December 2020 to February 2022 we were artists in residence at Winchester School of Art,  University of Southampton where we worked closely with the Biomedical Imaging Unit to develop a new body of work called Inner Worlds.