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Killer Eyes
27th July 2024
A two channel video installation exploring failure of communication through close observation of involuntary facial responses.
Mirror VI
22nd September 2023
Mirror VI : Border, is a two-channel video installation designed for presentation in museum or gallery contexts.
Saltley Geyser : Canning Town (v)
7th September 2023
A temporary installation of a geyser in a London's Royal Docks shooting water 30 metres in the sky
Wunderkammern : Pride
17th May 2023
The third of a series of impossible assemblages of artefacts, vignettes and insects questioning the appropriation of culture and t...
Wunderkammern : Greed
17th May 2023
The second of a series of impossible assemblages of artefacts, vignettes and insects questioning the appropriation of culture and ...
Wunderkammern : Envy
17th May 2023
The first of a series of impossible assemblages of artefacts, vignettes and insects questioning the appropriation of culture and t...
GEV IV : Conflict (v)
14th October 2022
A 5m Immersive projection exploring micro-simulation models and military behaviour.
Bodegon 1
14th October 2022
An animated 3d projection referencing the 17th Century Bodegón tradition of still-life painting.
Ghost in the Machine (v)
16th July 2021
10 billion automated Zoom connection attempts.
A Yard For Your Thoughts (v)
16th June 2021
A dual-screen experimental film developed as a remote collaboration between Mexico and UK.
Reversed Images : Brexit
13th September 2019
A multi-stream audio installation focussing on the way in which images may be recontextualised through evolving narratives
Mirror V (v)
13th September 2019
Capital C for Constitution
10th December 2018
Was Many Pictures
10th December 2018
Mirror IV (v)
13th July 2018
The generation that inherited the unimaginable. How do communities – across generations – deal with the passing on of ...
OnSilent (v)
6th April 2018
On Silent is a real-time enactment of a short period of crisis. Destined to be as obsolete as the musical sound of the 56k modem, ...
Maelstrom
27th October 2017
A public installation, Maelstrom, appearing on the rivers and canals of Chester.
Mirror III (v)
1st October 2016
Mirror III : Horizon is part of the “Mirror” project, a series of two-screen works devised to provide insight into glo...
The Wall
31st March 2016
A modest installation offering a playful interaction with the debates regarding walls, borders and xenophobic paranoia.
Mirror II (v)
18th March 2016
Mirror II – Distance is part of the “Mirror” project, a series of two-screen works devised to provide insight in...
Automotivation
8th August 2015
An autonomous slot-car race track with 20-55 race cars micro-simulating patterns of behaviour within congested traffic systems
Babel (v)
8th August 2015
Babel is a 3D projection of a simple closed-system created within a game engine. The work depicts an infinitely expanding highway ...
Mirror I (v)
27th June 2015
In the first of a series of two-screen works considering polarised perspectives, David Cotterrell and Ruwanthie de Chickera explor...
Mazar, Texas (v)
28th March 2014
Mazar, Texas was originally developed with curator and artist Laray Polk for Code Yellow at Central Trak and UTD Gallery, Dallas.
The Ostrich Effect (v)
4th October 2013
The Ostrich Effect is a generative installation that explores the recursive loops that might occur in hypothetical scenarios. It i...
In Other Worlds, I Love You
11th May 2013
In Other Worlds, I Love You was commissioned by Parabola for the Tatton Park Biennial 2012.
Control Room
12th February 2012
A theatrically staged installation offering the illusion of control.
Apparent Horizon
11th February 2012
Immersive generative projection system
Searchlight II
11th February 2012
Generative scanning projection system.
Observer Effect
11th February 2012
This work is in part derived from a short story by Ray Bradbury. Originally published as 'The World the Children Made’ in th...
1010 (v)
26th June 2011
A temporary three channel algorithmically generated projection.
SlipStream (v)
28th May 2011
Hill33 (v)
9th September 2010
The first stage of work is complete for Hill33 - a 1,300 tonne, 12-metre tall earthwork for the Forest of Dean.
1-25
16th June 2010
1:25 is a modular, miniature artwork suggesting children’s toys like Brio, Lego and Meccano.
Postcards from Herrick (v)
14th August 2009
An experimental montage of analogue and digital projection.
Serial Loop (v)
8th January 2009
A short seamlessly looped film portrayal of the inexorable arrival of casualties within conflict.
Green Room (v)
5th January 2009
A looped single channel video, documenting the anticipation and preparation for treatment of mass casualties within conflict.
9-Liner (v)
21st November 2008
A 25 minute, three channel, video installation exposing the abstraction of experience within conflict.
Theatre (v)
21st November 2008
An immersive projection of an aeromed flight from Camp Bastion to Kandahar
Home Front
4th July 2008
A project questioning the authority of technology. In a darkened space, Home Front offers an unusual perception of a domestic envi...
Roadrunner
1st June 2008
A silk carpet offering a planners perspective of a dystopian road network.
Little Sheep
2nd May 2008
A series of interventions seeking to challenge perceptions of manufactured landscape and its hierachy of elements and views.
The Debating Society
1st November 2007
Proposed installation of a sitting area in the Scottish Gorbals, of five computers in a continuously generated discussion
Searchlight (v)
15th March 2007
Disembodied shadows move through a projected searchlight in a square in Sunderland
Realty : London (v)
30th May 2006
For Sale or Lease, Bijou Property with 360 degree views of water
Model Junction No1
13th May 2006
A generative installation using traffic simulation technologies
Underworld (v)
5th December 2005
Permanent installation in the Unicorn children's theatre, placing a LED screen under the foyer's floor displaying another world
South Facing
15th November 2005
Installation maquette made entirely of city filler blocks (buildings that house large numbers of people to deal with urban growth)...
Hero (v)
11th October 2005
Hero is the first of a series of three simple video sketches offering documentation of individuals in Shanghai, trying to impose a...
Latitude (v)
10th April 2005
An immersive reconstruction of William Bligh's open boat navigation of 5800 miles on the Pacific Ocean
Skylight (v)
9th April 2005
A projected video and sound installation, documenting the audio interference beneath the flight-path of London's City Airport in D...
Macroscope
1st June 2004
Panoramic image of a neighbour's garden, collated from all perspectives from the neighbourhood onto it
Fresco
10th April 2004
Permanent evocative light installation projecting onto the ceiling of a children's hospital
Field
11th August 2003
Video installation on Lieutenant Buckley's commemorating plaque, showing the artist motionless on the site of Waterloo Battle
Foreign Body
20th May 2003
An occupying foreign soldier is positioned in a 16th Century environment, like a mediated image from Iraq's museums in wartime
Solid State Memory
5th May 2003
Alternative proposal for the historical blue plaques using a local narrative of ordinary people and their experiences
GEV III : Weather System (v)
27th March 2003
The final generative installation of the God's Eye View series, exploring the approximation of weather modelling.
GEV I : Pedestrian Simulator (v)
10th October 2002
One of three projections representing attempts to predict the experience of human existence
Shangri-La (v)
26th May 2002
Time-based photographic montage of 80 semi-detached houses in Gant's Hill morphing together showing their unlikely diversity
GEV II : Grid-Lock Generator (v)
27th March 2002
The second generative installation of the God's Eye View series offering an abstracted view of urban traffic modelling.
Car Culture (v)
7th October 2001
A camera installed in the back of Cotterrell's car records the actions of fellow road users during a 2000 mile road trip
Lighthouse
20th September 2001
A spatial intervention of Light house resembling CCTV camera registering the space and the audience inside
Reliquary
10th September 2001
Interactive projection of three local Fransciscan Friars onto the walls of a de-consecrated chutch in the Gorbals
TDS
1st July 2001
Installation of two computers attempting to have a mutual Rogerian conversation using a customized script of ELIZA
Aqueduct
1st June 2001
Temporary projection onto the underbelly of the Westway
VoiceOver
20th September 2000
A sonic environment in public space, processing and altering sounds that were picked up into an ambient sound
FortyDays
1st August 2000
Two programmed armoured tanks in a forty day battle while being affected by the longitude of the battle and their own weaknesses
Defying Dog
10th June 2000
Video installation in a de-consecrated church, reflecting on the spectacularisation of the role of the church and faith
Canal
15th April 1999
A projection in the foyer of a Birmingham theatre, mixing images of visitors as passers-by along an hidden canal bank
Saltley Geyser
20th July 1998
A temporary installation of a geyser in a Birmingham suburb shooting water 30 metres in the sky
Prototype II
15th July 1998
Two Magnum .357 Revolvers shooting into each other's barrels
Glass Towers
19th November 1997
A sculptural installation of champagne glasses overflowing in a cascade of redistributed champagne
Borrowed Time (v)
30th August 1997
A train thunders at great speed towards the audience, a projection on gas creating a near supernatural phenomena
Closing Down
20th August 1997
A collaborative work in which an abandoned pub is turned into a mock-Tudor canopy
Nobody Loves Everybody
15th March 1997
Modified fruit machine offers to play a game with heavy references to Tom Stoppard's 'Rosencrantz and Guildensterm are Dead'
Paranoia of a London Attache Case (v)
3rd June 1996
CCTV's on London Underground are involved in a frantic tracing game of an unidentified attache case
Bunker
1st April 1996
A decomissioned nuclear bunker was opened to the public as a venue for a series of site-specific installations produced in a wide ...
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