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Film Poster artwork for “MOP!” dir. Seb Brindle for Sunken Lane

In this ongoing series, I translate music into drawings. Each drawing records impressions of live music made at gigs with a ball-point pen, which I later scan and invert on Photoshop. The descriptions record the musicians, venue and date.

I was inspired by Pauline Oliveros’ definition of aphorisms - “(the ear tells the eye where to look)” - to relate gesturally to sound, and note the collective attunement these musicians carve into space.

Tomo Katsurada, St Matthias Church, 11/06/25

Josephine Foster + Louise Landes Levi, Café Oto, 05/06/25

Moor Mother x Shovel Dance Collective, Café Oto, 02/03/25

Reference Point, 14/12/24 (California Dreamin')

Contrafacts, Reference Point, 14/12/24 (Inflections on a drone)

"Sometimes I pee in the garden when we've got guests," AMP Studios, 21/07/24

Loraine James (Glitch this Bitch), Café Oto, 28/02/24

Flanafi into Dean Blunt (not live), Home, 28/10/23

Aleksandir & Supu (ambient set), Iklectik, 25/10/23

Giant Steps (Mad Professor), Hackney Baths, 15/10/23

Salami Rose Joe Louis, The Victoria, 11/10/23

Xhosa Cole, Pat Thomas, Josh Vadiveloo, Gary Wilcox, Café Oto, 24/09/23

These drawings are made through an iterative process of casting dust - shaved charcoal, plaster, graphite powder, silver and studio debris - onto a glued surface. I work from a combination of photographs and memory to evoke the sensation of being immersed in a forest. Each piece is titled according to the soundscapes of songs they inspire - see below.

All my tree drawings are available through Woolff Gallery. Please click here for more info.

SOLD Clearing, shaved charcoal, 81 x 44 cm

Greens, silver thread and pigment, 81 x 62 cm

It's Between (Me n U), shaved charcoal, silver and graphite, 81 x 62 cm

Footprints, shaved charcoal, 81 x 44 cm

SOLD Telallás, shaved charcoal, graphite powder, spelt flour, pigment,113 x 76 cm

Elaenia, shaved charcoal, graphite powder, spelt flour, pigment, 113 x 76 cm