70,000 Lux, 2010
Installation. Seven wall-mounted boxes, each containing a S.A.D. (Seasonal Affective Disorder) light, activated by motion sensors. It references the minimalist sculptures of Donald Judd and the fluorescent light installations of Dan Flavin, while adding a socio-medical layer of meaning through the playful transformation of a heath treatment product into an artwork.
Ways of Seeing: Blindness and Art , 2008–2009
Video (3-channel projection). Examines how three visually-impaired people experience an art exhibition, mediated through the words of a professional audio describer and the curator. It explores how the unsettled relationship between seeing, words and knowing as articulated by John Berger (Ways of Seeing 1972) can be further complicated by sight loss.
Red Chicken, 2007
Video. A full-on visual feast in a Shanghai restaurant: vast in size and ornate in decoration, complete with soon-to-be-consumed live seafood in glass tanks, roller-skating waiters and dancing girls wearing fake smiles and spangly costumes. Supported by the British Council and Arts Council England.
Good Morning Shanghai, 2006
Video. A montage of morning exercise routines by Shanghai people in public parks. Especially popular amongst older people, the exercises included tai chi, drumming, dancing, body slapping, sword fencing and other martial arts routines. Supported by the British Council and Arts Council England.
Shanghai Remedies, 2006
Photographs. Intimate portraits of Shanghai people and their medicine collection in their homes, offering a glimpse of their health conditions, personalities and living environments. Supported by the British Council and Arts Council England.
Frames of Mind, 2006
Video. A work inspired by and drawing on the archive of a former mental asylum, the Brookwood Hospital (1867-1994) in Woking, UK. Comprising images of vintage hospital equipment, patients’ case notes, photographic documents and other artefacts, it offers a glimpse of the changes in attitude towards people with mental health problems over the last two centuries. Commissioned by The Lightbox Gallery & Museum and supported by NESTA.
Chinese Tongue Diagnosis, 2005
Video and photographs. A playful view of tongue diagnosis, an essential diagnostic method in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Supported by Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK.
Breathe, 2004
Live art. Conducted in conjunction with National No Smoking Day. Participants breathed into a Smokerlyser - a machine that measures carbon monoxide in one's breath. A balloon was filled on behalf of each participant, symbolising the captured breath, and collectively released at the end of the event. Supported by Space Studios and City & Hackney Teaching Primary Care Trust, London.
Harry, 2003
Video and sculptures. Works inspired by Harry, an 81-year-old former boxer with dementia during an artist's residency at Age Concern Kensington & Chelsea, London. The film 'Harry' is in the Arts Council England Collection.
Toy Stories, 2001
Photographs. Images of soft toys that have undergone 'human intervention', inspired by and a critque of new developments in biotechnology.
Works, 2000–2001
Sculptures. A body of work that focuses on biotechnology, prosthesis, and issues raised by the blurring of the boundaries between humans, animals, and machines.
Works, 1994–1999
My works during this period focus on issues relating to representation of the body and on the notion of the skin as a liminal space.