Installation Works
Threshold Festival 2011 - 2021
“Threshold Festival of Music & Arts is an annual 3 day event which takes place in Liverpool. The focus of the festival is collaboration, grass-roots music, first view visual arts and innovative performance. Established in 2011, Threshold is dedicated to artist development and driving forward the music and arts industry.”
‘Land Belongs to Itself’ (2021)
An ecopoetic, climate-based, response narrated by Lucy R. Lippard. Camera/Edit/Direction = Robyn Woolston
Duration: 4min 29
Exhibition: Threshold X // 9th & 10th April (Online and IRL)
https://thresholdfestival.co.uk
‘FIELD OF DREAMS’ (2011) / Installation detail
45,000 plastic bags. Site Specific Installation
FIELD:
…an area rich in natural ‘product’
DREAM:
…a cherished hope or ideal
…a state of mind in which someone is not fully aware of their surroundings
VALUE-LED EXCHANGE:
‘…lasting relationships, human intimacy, animating passion, enduring ideals, higher purpose, shared values …meaning’ (Umair Haque)
Within a value-led exchange our human needs must be met and values honoured before a profit can be extracted from a transaction. Within the neo-liberal paradigm profit is placed above value in terms of its importance…
Welcome to the ‘Field of Dreams’.
SMART PRICE (2012) / Installation detail
132,000 plastic knives and forks
5280 pieces of plastic packaging
330 cardboard boxes
3 letters / harvested from the (now bankrupt) Liverpool Habitat sign
Gyre is the name given to any large system of rotating ocean currents (particularly those involved with large wind movements). The largest of the 5 main gyres is found in the Northern Pacific ocean.
It occupies an area of approximately 20 million square kilometers.
It is the largest ecosystem on the planet.
“The currents tend to force any floating material into the low energy central area of the gyre. There are few islands on which the floating material can beach. So it stays there in the gyre, in astounding quantities estimated at six kilos of plastic for every kilo of naturally occurring plankton. The equivalent of an area the size of Texas swirling slowly around like a clock. This gyre has been called the "Trash Vortex" or the "Eastern Garbage Patch"
Source: Greenpeace
> What’s smart about a ‘disposable’ range of plastic that lasts 300-500 years?
> What price would you pay to preserve our ecosystem?
> Which bit of the planet should we ‘save’?
‘Loci (Double Bind)’ 2013 / Installation detail
Silver birch, waste thread, burnt plastic cutlery, 1500+ electronic gift cards
'Loci (Double Bind)’ 2013 embodies tension, repetition and release within a sculptural installation.
Inextricably linked to material & context, mutual survival and our individual needs. We supposedly exercise free will within a matrix of 'service providers’ & marketeers. Actions is 'required’, in terms of the environmental urgencies of our time, yet responses are disparate. Our collaborative 'location’, or locus, is beholden to a multiplicity of social contracts yet our ability to 'confront the inherent dilemma’ is compromised.
‘House of Sound’ (2014) / Installation detail
1500+ audio cassette tapes, metal sign with vinyl detail, cardboard, household paint.
Equal parts personal archive and musical inventory the site-responsive intervention explores the private library of an anonymous donor within the context of a public music festival.
‘Tomb of the Unknown Soldier’ (2015) / Installation detail
1500 toy soldiers, convex road mirror, 100 wooden roses, paper straws, reclaimed military banners
Threshold Festival, Liverpool Craft Beer space, Baltic Triangle, Liverpool
'Transfiguration' (2016) / Installation Detail
Photography, red stag skeletal bones, miniature liquor bottles, semi-precious stones, antique cabinet, family heirlooms.