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- Professor of Fine Art
- The Slade School of Fine Art
- Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Born in London I received my BA (hons) Fine Art from the Slade School in 1987 and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a Fulbright Scholar in the early 1990's. I was appointed to set up Electronic Media at the Slade in 1995, founding the UCL Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art in the same year becoming Head of Electronic Media (until 2010).
I served as Head of the Undergraduate Fine Art Media area from 2005-10 and Director of Undergraduate Studies from 2009-10. I became Head of Department and Director of the School in 2010 (until 2018) and Slade Professor from 2013 (until 2018). I am currently Head of Research at the Slade.





still from Glenlandia 2005-7
The work since 2001 has developed the 'remote' aspects first explored in In Conversation through a series of works exploring transmission, networking and time as primary materials including Transporting Skies which transported sky (and other phenomena) live between Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance in Cornwall and Site Gallery Sheffield in Yorkshire; Fenlandia and Glenlandia - live year long pixel by pixel internet transmissions from remote landscapes; The Spectrascope, an ongoing live pixel by pixel transmission from a haunted house; Seascape a solo show for the De La Warr Pavilion which simultaneously recorded a panoramic series of Seascapes pixel by pixel over the course of a year from the South East Coast of England and Wembury & Woolacombe, commissioned by Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter (RAMM) with the support of the National Trust.

Other work since 2001 includes the BAFTA nominated Tate in Space commissioned for Tate Online and Love Brid, an animated short film commissioned by Animate Projects. The work is exhibited nationally and internationally with group exhibitions in the UK, Canada, Denmark, The Netherlands, Germany, Israel, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Tasmania, U.S.A, Mexico, Peru, Turkey and Thailand. Public commissions include a wildlife surveillance system for Sarah Wigglesworth Architects’s RIBA award winning Classroom of the Future, Underglow, a network of illuminated drains for the Corporation of London, and Brighter Later a light installation driven by live weather data at the Radcliffe Observatory, commissioned by Tracing Venus, the University of Oxford's Public Art Programme.
The most recent pixel based works are LAND 2017 (still below) a view across the Palestinian West Bank towards the Jordanian Mountains from Jerusalem, and Five Hours Later 2019 a pixel based transmission between Sheffield, UK and Boston, USA commissioned by Site Gallery Sheffield in collaboration with ICA Boston and MWX (Museums on the Web) Boston.
2001 | Doctor of Philosophy | University of Reading | |
1987 | Bachelor of Arts (Honours) | University College London |