ACTS OF FAITH : 2005
Soundwork for Church Ale Festival, at home, Suffolk

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Gathering tales, stories, legends and folklore around the village of Rishangles in Suffolk led to the soundwork Acts of Faith. The piece combined the rich voices of the county in their own dialect with their perceptions of the role of religion and the church on their lives and society in general. By exploring the ritualistic approach to worship within the church and the effects of repetitive actions on human behaviour I tried to create a picture through sound of a community touched and affected by their worship in days gone by. The piece looks at the place of the church in society and the effects of information exchange in a religious setting onto a congregation.

The work formed part of the inaugural Church Ale Festival in 2005 and was sited within a pathway between two rows of trees adjacent to the now redundant church of St Margaret of Antioch Rishangles.

SPEECHMARKS : 2002

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Speechmarks was the exhibition of MA work at the culmination of my studies at Norwich School of Art and Design in 2002. The show consisted of several pieces – black and white images taken using my mouth as a camera (mouth exposures)made in an attempt to capture the effect of speech visually, a photographic sequence entitled I am a Camera and a sound work, also Speechmarks, made with Elise Chohan a masters student at the University of East Anglia. The last work was made to explore the frequencies heard by the human ear from the perspective of someone with some deafness.

photograph : Doug Atfield