Category Archives: Site Specific

site specific installations

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Pixelscape for Glastonbury Tor

2004 – ongoing A permanent networked installation commissioned for C & J Clarks Headquarters, Street, Somerset…

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…

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…

Viewfinder

2000 Commissioned by ARTlife and DA2 for Minehead, West Somerset…

Cruisin’

1999 An internet specific artwork, commissioned by e-2 for Containership…

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.…

Contained

1996 Commissioned for Triplicate, Southampton City Art Gallery, Towner Art Gallery, Tate Gallery St. Ives…

Every Dog Has Its Day

1995 Commissioned by Moviola (FACT) and Warrington Museum and Art Gallery for Videopositive ’95…

Pedestrian Gestures

1994 Paragon Station, Hull & tour, commissioned by Hull Time Based Arts/Arts Council Film and Video…

Litter

1994 Wood Street, Liverpool Commissioned by Bluecoat Gallery for ‘On Location’…

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…