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An Artist’s Book About Climate

I’ve spent a good part of 2022 working on ideas related to both the local climate and the changing global climate. Locally I’ve filled a sketchbook with drawings of the River Caldew not far from home, all made from the same place using coloured pencils and a brush pen in a beautiful Khadi book. That…

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Dark Matter/Fundamental

In a world without quantum mechanics, we have to imagine a world where our mobile phones are built from vacuum tubes like in the olden days. Luckily we do have modern physics to give us properly mobile phones, and GPS satellites, and the internet. But the model of our universe that modern physics proposes is…

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Hadrian’s Wall 1900 Exhibition

2022 marked 1900 years since the building of Hadrian’s Wall, celebrated in activities and events along the length of its site (see the official HW1900 website). One of the events was a print exhibition in which printmakers were invited to make a work exactly 300mm high to be tiled into a long line for show…

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Fruitful Exhibition, and beyond

When Florence Arts put out an open call for work made in response to the prompt “Fruitful,” I recalled a quote I’d heard that described quantum mechanics as the most fruitful science we’ve had in the last hundred or so years. I forget where I heard it, but it came into my head anyway. My…

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Fragile Power

A recent series of collaborations culminated in four works shown at a group exhibition at the Florence Arts Centre running from 6th November to 19th December. Exhibition RE:FORM. An exhibition by Art Crit North Cumbria. Florence Arts Centre: 6th November – 18th December 2021. RE:FORM is a collaborative project which asked artists to make a…

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A tiny sketch: “Translation”

This short post describes some idea fragments that feel as if they might be developed from a simple sketch here into something more interesting, related to notions of “translation” in different forms. The work started from a group workshop at university (#weareoca) that asked us to work with “translation” in a couple of ways: firstly…

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Hi, I’m Steve. I’ve grown up bringing science, technology and art together in different ways and within the last few years have been working on studies in fine art with the Open College of the Arts. My practice is wide-ranging in terms of media and process, but it tends to be rooted in some aspect of how our reality functions. My work results in tactile objects or in virtual experiences.

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