PLASMA SPRING is a collaboration with Daphne Simons, currently happening remotely between Scotland and New Zealand. The project revolves around an ongoing series of comics: ‘Plasma Spring’ (2019), ‘Plasma Freeze: Making Friends’ (2020) and ‘Plasma Freeze: Salon at the Centre of the Earth’ (2021), which was published by PrintRoom Rotterdam. Offshoots of the project have been shown as installations in 'JAM POD' at Stichting SIGN, Gröningen (NL); 'Material Context' at Het Archief, Rotterdam (NL) and 'VIRKETIDning' at ALTA Art Space, Malmö (SE). Video work has been shown at The Audio Foundation (Auckland, NZ) and online for WET Film.

'Making Friends' (2020). Digital video projection, 28:19 mins on loop. Installation view at Stitching Sign, Gröningen. Photo by Silvia Arenas.

'Leonor's Muses' and 'Eel Uprising' (2021). Coloured pencil on paper, 29.7 x 42xcm. Installation view at Stitching Sign, Gröningen. Photos by Silvia Arenas.

'Queens These Days' (2021). Painted mural. Installation view at Stichting Sign, Gröningen. Photo by Silvia Arenas.

'Celine's Contact Wheel' (2020). Motorised film prop. Installation view at Stichting Sign, Gröningen. Photo by Silvia Arenas.

'Mickey Angel's Private View' and 'Salon at the Centre of the Earth' (2021). Coloured pencil on paper, 29.7 x 42xcm. Installation view with curtain to film room at Het Archief, Rotterdam.
Photos by Nick Thomas of Studio Wolphi.

'Making Friends' (2020). Two-channel digital video projection, 28:26 (looping). Installation view at Het Archief, Rotterdam. Photos by Nick Thomas of Studio Wolphi.

'Male Mail Men' and 'Celine's Resurrection Room' (2020). Lightboxes, 43 x 60 cm. Installation views at Het Archief, Rotterdam and detail of painted wood effect.
Photos by Nick Thomas of Studio Wolphi and Guillem S. Arquer.

The video ‘Making Friends’ features musical contributions from Dave Shaw, Calypso Hetherington, Barnaby Wynter, Petter D. Perrson, Li-Ming Hu, Yanik Soland, Marianna Angel and Jamie Kane. Huge thanks to Linus Bonduelle and Niloufar Nematollahi for various technical help.

Plasma Spring at Stichting Sign, Gröningen (November 4 – December 5 2021) 

Plasma Spring at Het Archief, Rotterdam (July 2021)

'Male Mail Men' (2020). Lightbox, 43 x 60 cm. Installation view at Stitching Sign, Gröningen. Photo by Silvia Arenas.