in collaboration with Virginia Bradley
Chichester Festival, 1998
Chichester Cathedral Digital Projection
Exhibition at Otter Gallery
Exhibition Statement
"Migrating birds are known to use both celestial and terrestrial navigation to find routes across the Atlantic. Examples include a Manx Shearwater homing 3000 miles from Wales to Boston in 12 days and a Leach Petrel flying from Sussex to Maine in 14 days.
In certain aspects the phenomena of "goal-oriented" navigation across the Atlantic mirrors the patterns of travel and location work that has characterised the process of art-making in this international collaboration.
The mechanics of navigation relates more broadly to instinctive patterns and compulsive behaviour. The exhibition presents a multi-layered interpretation of the concept of migration as it pertains to human experience of displacement, dislocation, exile, refugees, etc.. Metaphorical connections with the natural world are a strong point of focus, referring to orientation, homing, nomadism, etc.. "