Watercolour on A4 watercolour (300gsm) paper (210 x 297 mm)
Watercolour on A4 watercolour (300gsm) paper (210 x 297 mm)
2022
Watercolour on A4 watercolour (300gsm) paper (210 x 297 mm)
Watercolour on A4 watercolour (300gsm) paper (210 x 297 mm)
Watercolour on A4 watercolour (300gsm) paper (210 x 297 mm)
Watercolour on A4 watercolour (300gsm) paper (210 x 297 mm)
2023
42 minutes
Cinematography & Editor: Helena Öhman
Sound Design: Rob Bentall (to be produced)
In 2019 the surviving Tiller Girls, representing many different generations of dancers, met up for a reunion in Blackpool—a key home of the troupe. I went along with Helena Öhman, to record the event and talk to the women.
The footage of the event shows glamorous older women, posing, chatting, laughing, negotiating one another, reliving memories, and showing me how to link arms as a Tiller Girl.
Interposed text highlights speech, emphasising the insights and opinions that develop and challenge earlier video works. Black and white archival footage of filmed theatre performances depict Tiller Girl dances giving visual descriptions to pair with the stories.
2011
Video, 4 mins 7 secs
The final ‘letter’ I sent to Kerstin Honeit, as part of our video dialogue ‘Video Letters‘. This later became Scene 4 of the ‘The Artist’, a collection of five videos dancing in my studio.
2020
Giclee print on white cotton rag paper, edition of 5, 84 cm x 84 cm
Edition of 15, 34 cm x 34 cm
Collage on A4 watercolour (300gsm) paper (210 x 297 mm)
Collage on A4 watercolour (300gsm) paper (210 x 297 mm)
Collage on A4 watercolour (300gsm) paper (210 x 297 mm)
Collage on A4 paper (210 x 297 mm)
Watercolour on A4 paper (210 x 297 mm)
Watercolour on A4 watercolour (300gsm) paper (210 x 297 mm)
2009
Originally presented as a two-channel durational installation for my CalArts thesis show, re-edited for theatre viewing.
Living on a ranch in the small working-class town of Santa Paula in California, I filmed psychics visiting the ranch to find the hidden stories.
Aug 012015
My review of a review of Yvonne Rainer’s Dance Works at Raven Row has been published in X-tra Art Quarterly.
Mar 052010
I don’t know, I can’t explain, I don’t have answers. I found a new ballet class, with a good pointe class after it, and I did it again. I wore my Gaynor Mindens and they were too tight. So I bought a new pair. Half a size larger, and with a wider box. I am 31 and I bought another pair of pointe shoes. Part of me thinks it is practice; dancing ballet and pointe. And another part of me despairs. Oh but then they first part of me thinks – ha! I can dance en pointe in unexpected places, like giving a conference paper?
