Gallery
Forensic Investigation
Her investigations have documented objects and collected fragments for analysis from her sitting room, a French village, Coutts Bank and a city-the ambitious Public Art projects ‘Treasure Island: A Forensic Investigation of a City’, Arts Council England Award for Innovation. www.cityforensics.com. ‘Mystères des Mémoires’ an installation in a cave was a response to her latest investigation in the Mid-Pyrenees, France (a winning laureate commission).
2006-2010 : 'Treasure Island: A. Forensic Investigation of a City'
Arts Council Final Award for Innovation. Development Award £10000. Final Award £50,000. Patron: David Pointer. Partners Portsmouth City Council.
Public Arts Project producing one of the largest innovative archives in the U.K. With over a 190 artworks created through the use of traditional fine art approaches with new technologies. www.cityforensics.com
- 2006-1010 Archives created 00002 – 00204
- Investigations visit 23 locations including Mary Rose and open Public Sessions
- Artworks created from fragments using laser microscope
- Interactive website developed www.cityforensics.com
- Projections of artworks onto empty shop windows
- 2008 ‘Treasure Island: A Forensic Investigation of a City’ Exhibition at Portsmouth Cathedral. Installation ‘Tombs & Collecting Memories’, architectural projections and prints displayed. Final short-list as best exhibition, nominated and voted by the public in the region through Portsmouth News.
- 2009 David Pointer patron sponsorship (£25,000). Development of ‘Recall’ film and video production of the artworks for projection reel created from the archives.
- Architectural projections at Romsey Abbey
- 2 large-scale projection events at Coutts bank with projection reel that includes artworks produced from investigations of their artefacts. One event for Coutts clients and one for ‘Sailablilty’ charity event with their Patron HRM Princess Royal.
- BBC starts a documentary: film shoots/interview, introduction, investigation location and scientific processesof analyzing the fragment. BBC do not complete but use material to put on the web and ‘Big Screen’ viewings.
- ‘Recall’ film projection reel inspired from the archives. Arts Council through National Lottery Award and Patronage of David Pointer.
2002 : ‘My Sitting Room’
The initial discovery of the link between stunning microscopic images produced when analyzing fluorescence in an aged sample. The first series of investigations began with ‘My Sitting Room’ where samples were collected in her sitting room from inherited and personal aged items.
Investigations Education
2003 ‘Our School’ forensic investigation 2
Involved the participation of 450 students and subject areas staff, helping as if in a forensic operation, all subject area environments investigated during the normal school day with children from science lessons acting as assistants and investigators. Samples collected from the teaching environment were analysed under the Confocal Laser Microscope. 3D images, microscopic artworks, documentation, samples collected were installed back in the Science Block as a permanent exhibition.