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).
Slowfast Continuum
Paper, velvet, wood
40.5 x 45.5 cm
2021
Considering consumption and permanence, domestic roles and the luxury of time, Slowfast Continuum is from a series of hand-cut paper collages made during lockdown. Using materials found in the home - outdated cookbooks, 80’s computer magazines and a complete set of Time-Life Books’ The World’s Wild Places - these works explore the experience of time through ideas of indulgence, decay and obsolescence.
Slowfast Continuum (2021), collage detail