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Domestic Landscapes

Domestic Landscapes (1991-92) was shot on Hi 8, literally made “at home” using domestic video equipment. Its subject matter is highly personal- perhaps even private and at times very intimate; the

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The Stream

The Stream (1985-87) exists in a number of different versions, with the first completed in 1985 and produced as a two-channel work for tapes to be presented on identical television monitors.

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Other Spaces

Other Spaces (1986) was made as a companion piece to An Imaginary Landscape (1986), and uses some of the same video material, recorded in the interior of my home in Brixton, London in

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On Being

On Being (1985) was made during a period when I was searching for ways to use the process of video in a metaphoric way to present aspects of personal experience- to

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An Imaginary Landscape

An Imaginary Landscape makes reference to the title of a series of musical compositions by John Cage. Cage’s influence through Nam June Paik on early video art is significant. Imaginary Landscape

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Still Life with Monitor

Still Life with Monitor (1984) was made during a period when I was interested in revisiting earlier themes related to my experience and perceptions of broadcast television. My relationship was not

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Interlude (Homage to Bugs Bunny)

Interlude (Homage to Bugs Bunny) (1983) was one of my ‘personal experiments’ and originally I had not intended to release it for distribution. Initially I had been interested in the soundtrack

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Time Travelling/ A True Story

This tape began as an idea for a piece which would link to The Room with a View. Having worked with photography as an influence on memory- I decided to look

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The Room with a View

The Room with a View (1982) is ‘about’ photography, or more accurately, it is about the view that the camera gives us of ourselves. The central theme of the tape is

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The Distracted Driver

Chris Meigh-Andrews’ Distracted Driver is, compared to Orange Free State, a simple, meditative piece. The familiar screeches of Bernard Herrmann’s score for the shower scene from Psycho are matched to grainy, blurred

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