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Commisioned by RedBoard for their Freedom themed billboard series that was a part of Hull 2017 City of Culture Creative Communities Programme. The billboard artwork was produced and the performance idea devised in collaboration with Davin Watne during a research trip to Kansas City in July 2017, sup...

Consumed: Stilled Lives plays with the traditional concept of still-life painting, which grew in popularity in the 16th and 17th centuries. Often featuring silver plates, ornate glassware and expensive foodstuffs such as shellfish and exotic fruit, still life paintings became a fashionable way for t...

The output is a creative project involving a light projection titled ‘Trumps’. It was a response to the concept and timing of the í Ljósi light festival in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, when the first sunlight in nine months falls onto the town. Research process: Using synchronised digital projectors insi...

The output is a creative project comprising a light projection titled ‘Building dreams’. Research process: The proposal for Leeds Light Night 2016 was a further development of 3 years experimentation of filming with the high-resolution capability of an iPhone in creating digital film installations. ...

The output is a series of exhibitions, created as part of collaborative research, consisting of 26′ audio work by Esther Johnson and Debbie Ballin, a photographic series by Esther Johnson, a selection of artefacts, from the People’s History Museum and NCCME archives curated by Johnson and Ballin and...