Rising Tides In August and October 2024 two Network Cameras were installed on floating piers, one on Bangkok Noi looking towards the Chao Phraya River and the Wat Suwannaram Ratchaworawihan (Temple) in Bangkok, and the second on the River Thames in London looking west towards Tower…
Current II In October 2023, an underwater network camera was installed in a harbour wall in Aigio, Greece looking out to sea.…
Dell Quay Dell Quay is a site specific work originally commissioned for Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester 12 November 2022 – 23rd April 2023…
Current From September 2020, for nine months, an underwater network camera was installed in Aigio, Greece looking out to sea.…
Five Hours Later From the end of March 2019, until the end of July 2020, the view from Boston Harbour and the view across Sheffield towards Park Hill and the Cholera Monument were transmitted live via network cameras simultaneously. Initially intended to run for a year the work…
LAND 2016-17 In October 2016 a network camera was installed on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem looking east across the West Bank towards the Jordanian Mountains, a deeply historic and biblical landscape that has been written about and referenced over millennia. It is also an extremely complicated and…
Wild Life 2016 Wild Life (2 mins 47 secs, silent, HD) is a short, moving image photographic ‘portrait’ exploring (the nature of) the Essex Road for Essex Road III, Tintype Gallery. Constructed entirely from still digital photographs this film is the latest in a series of short…
Wembury & Woolacombe 2015-16 Wembury & Woolacombe revealed views from the North and South Coasts of Devon simultaneously, live, and in real time. Commissioned by the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter (RAMM) for the exhibition ‘Whatever the Weather’ (November 2015- April 2016). RAMM was keen to commission twin…
Brighter Later 2013 Brighter Later, was a temporary light installation commissioned for the Radcliffe Observatory at Green Templeton College as part of Tracing Venus, the University of Oxford’s Public Art Programme for the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter. Inspired by the Radcliffe Observatory’s prominent role in the history of…
London 2013 and London 2014 2013 – 2014 London 2013 – and 2014 – reveal the view from Christina Niederberger’s studio on the 8th floor of ASC Studios’ Erlang House looking north over London’s newly emerging skyline. The images were constructed a pixel a second from top left to the…
Excavation 2012 Susan Collins has made two new works in response to Medieval Harewood at Harewood House, Leeds Excavation (part I), installed in All Saints Church, is a film sequence, projected on to the floor, showing an archaeologist’s hand gouging earth with a trowel during the…
Found Footage: Whitechapel 14 October – 20 November 2011 ‘Found Footage: Whitechapel’ is a solo show at the Idea Store Whitechapel project space and the latest in a series of animated works constructed entirely from still digital photographs, which play on the relationship between the still and moving…
Love Brid 2009 Love Brid is one of three short films commissioned by Animate Projects as part of Sea Change. It is an animated postcard, a loving tribute to the timeless charms of the seaside, and a colourful rollercoaster ride through the coastal town of Bridlington (Brid)…
Seascape 2009 A solo show presenting a new body of work by Susan Collins 4 April – 14 June 2009, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea SEASCAPE consists of a series of gradually unfolding digital seascapes created using imagery captured by webcams installed at five key coastal…
Harewood 2008 In June 2008 a webcam was installed overlooking Harewood House’s classical ‘Capability’ Brown landscape. The webcam is transmitting and recording images at the rate of a pixel a second so that a whole image represents the previous 21.33 hours. Each image is collected from…
Chaser 2007 One of a series of contemporary artworks and illuminations commissioned for the GLOW ’07 festival Newcastle Gateshead. Chaser transforms the top windows of the Tyne Bridge Tower in Gateshead into a rapidly moving light circuit of intense colour. Visible across the river Tyne in…
Snowdomia 2006 LED_videodoc2 Digital animation commissioned by s/LAB for Light Prop for an Electric Stage #2 as one of a series of animated works shown on a temporary 50m square LED screen at Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens during winter 2006/7…
Underglow 2005-06 One of 4 works commissioned by the Corporation of London and Modus Operandi as part of ‘Light Up Queen Street’ a programme of winter commissions. Underglow illuminated a number of separate gullies (drains) in the vicinity of Guildhall Yard, King Street and Queen Street…
Glenlandia 2005-7 An online project timecoding landscape commissioned by Horsecross and Film and Video Umbrella for the launch of Threshold artspace and the opening of Perth’s new concert hall. click here to launch website…
The Spectrascope 2005 – A live pixel by pixel transmission from a Haunted Manor House click here to launch website…
Pixelscape for Glastonbury Tor 2004 – ongoing A permanent networked installation commissioned for C & J Clarks Headquarters, Street, Somerset…
Fenlandia 2004-6 An online project timecoding landscape commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and Norwich School of Art and Design for Silicon Fen click here to launch website…
Classroom of The Future 2001 – 2005 Collaboration with Architect Sarah Wigglesworth funded by RSA Art for Architecture and Arts Council England click here to launch website…
Pixelscape for Arts Council England, South East 2003 A permanent commission for Arts Council England South East’s headquarters in Brighton…
Transporting Skies 2002 A networked dual gallery solo exhibition which was shown simultaneously at Site Gallery, Sheffield and Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance.…
Tate in Space 2002-3 A site specific online artwork commissioned for the Tate website (nominated for a 2004 interactive BAFTA) click here to launch website…
Holy Mackerel 2001 A site specific temporary public installation commissioned by Land Securities and Canterbury City Council for Whitefriars Canterbury…
Inhabited Text 2001 interactive – live – dialogue developed as the online companion/automated viva for a PhD Thesis…
Tumblong 1998 A pilot internet project between Britain and Australia, with four commissioned artists. Organised and curated by the University of Technology, Sydney, and The Laboratory at the Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford University click here to launch my Tumblong site…
Awash 1998 Awash was a temporary site specific installation at Mackenzie Walk, Canary Wharf London commissioned as part of Launch It took the form of an intervention, incorporating a series of sounds and a video projection onto water.…
In Conversation 1997 – 2001 A street/net/gallery intervention creating a live portal for conversation between the street and the internet. Commissioned by Channel and first shown in Brighton in 1997 at Fabrica Gallery. Subsequently restaged in Avatar, at the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, 1998; in Encoded Identities, Gallery…
Suspect Devices 1997 – 98 Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne and Lux Gallery (formerly London Electronic Arts Gallery) Solo exhibition co-commissioned by Tyne and Wear Museums and Film and Video Umbrella with funding from Arts Council England…
Contained 1996 Commissioned for Triplicate, Southampton City Art Gallery, Towner Art Gallery, Tate Gallery St. Ives…
Telepresence 1996 Video projection on vintage telephone in a vitrine in the main square, Linz, Austria exhibited as part of the Linz Landesmuseum exhibition Objekt::Video…
Every Dog Has Its Day 1995 Commissioned by Moviola (FACT) and Warrington Museum and Art Gallery for Videopositive ’95…
AudioZone 1994 Commissioned by Moviola (FACT), Tramway and Film & Video Umbrella for V-Topia:Visions of a Virtual World, Tramway, Glasgow Sometimes termed as ‘Virtual Reality’ audio, 3d audio is capable of objectifying sound, and giving it a specific spatial location. Working with infra-red cordless headsets, AudioZone…
Pedestrian Gestures 1994 Paragon Station, Hull & tour, commissioned by Hull Time Based Arts/Arts Council Film and Video…
Handle With Care 1993 – 94 Commissioned for the opening of the 1830 Warehouse, Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester…
Woolwich Foot Tunnel 1993 Introductory Exchanges for Woolwich Foot Tunnel, commissioned by Camerawork Gallery for River Crossings…
Coming Attractions 1991 An animated personal reflection on modern mating habits, and sexual balances of power, “Coming Attractions” weaves imagery together into a time-based collage, a moving drawing, “Videowallpaper” which when delayered exposes a surprisingly menacing underbelly to our “everyday”…..…
Going for Goldfish (with Julie Myers) 1990 Going for Goldfish juxtaposes athletes on their pedestals with the everyday woman struggling to touch her toes. Essentially an ironic glance at something that is as much about spectator sport as about athletic achievement. This was one of five video/electronic media Public Arts Projects…
