UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS (2020) is a project bringing together patient ambassadors for Blood Cancer UK and stem cell researchers working at the Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre. Through a series of stop-motion animation workshops held via Zoom, participants developed hand-cut animation sequences exploring their experiences of ‘the unknown’ in relation to living with blood cancer, the challenges of research and the global uncertainties of Covid-19. Animation materials included paper, velvet and issues of National Geographic published in 1960, the year Blood Cancer UK officially became a charity.
Commissioned by the Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute as part of its Public Engagement programme, project outcomes include an animated film featuring participants’ stop-motion sequences (Futuramic Unknown, 2020) and an installation for the Jeffery Cheah Biomedical Center at Cambridge Biomedical Campus (The Night the Mountains Moved, 2020).
AFTERWORD
2021
Connecting a series of seemingly unrelated international events that occurred across three years, Afterword is an archival record tracing the fortune of a 356kg pile of pennies.
CRAASH Exhibition: Global Conversations
16 August – 31 December 2021
THE NIGHT THE MOUNTAINS MOVED
Hand cut digital prints on blue-backed billboard paper, collaged on wall
2.6m x 9m
2020
Installation commissioned by Wellcome-MRC Stem Cell Institute for Jeffery Cheah Biomedical Centre at Cambridge Biomedical Campus, in partnership with Blood Cancer UK and Kettle's Yard.
Project: Unknown Unknowns (2020)
EVEN WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW HOW
Glass, neon, acrylic case, transformer, cable, plug
145cm x 70cm x 10cm
2021
IN THE FACE OF UNCERTAINTY
Glass, neon, acrylic case, transformer, cable, plug
110cm x 70cm x 10cm
2021
BRAVER THAN YOU THINK YOU ARE
Glass, neon, acrylic case, transformer, cable, plug
135cm x 70cm x 10cm
2021
Three neon signs made in collaboration with poet Hannah Jane Walker, currently installed at the Li Ka Shing Centre, Cancer Research UK Institute at Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
Project: Making Visible (2021), commissioned by Liberty Property Trust & Countryside Properties; Managed by Future City.