Work
The Walk is a Heartbeat: Terminalia Festival
The Walk is a Heartbeat The walk takes place as part of Terminalia Festival It is also the final walk in the year long project Walking Beyond Words. The physical location is London, or you can walk wherever you are. for more info and to register please email: info@sallystenton.com. Please state whether you will be [...]
The Walk is Not a LINE
The Walk is Not a LINE The walk formed part of the Art Language Location TEN:th anniversary celebrations in October 2023 It dovetailed with the year long project 'Walking Beyond Words' which enabled people to walk in Cambridge at the same time as people in other locations, including Bombay and Delhi and other parts of [...]
…a fleeting adherence to trees
...a fleeting adherence to trees in collaboration with the ceramicist Sandy Layton Layered image and writing 2021 Experiments with the projection of ceramic sculpture onto trees and grass, writing in response, mixing our lines, our media and our intentions. [...]
An audio guide for the complacent walker
An audio guide for the complacent walker September 2020 Audio file [original version] Featured in the 2021 Royal College of Art Research Biennale Modified version Performed at ArtSpace, Cambridge on 11th September 2022
and you sounds
and you sounds is an audio piece that you are invited to take for a walk. It has emerged from an ongoing walking collaboration between Jo Miller and Sally Stenton. We walked together at a distance, about 12 miles apart. Sounds from our walks mingled, crossing the edges of our digital devices. The next day [...]
Mars by proxy
I received a request to create a giant circle in the sand at Hunstanton to represent Mars and to send a photograph to Tony Wade. The photo was featured as part of an artwork entitled ‘Relative’. https://tonywadeart.wordpress.com/2019/07/09/relative/. This is featured as part of The Festival of the Moon at Wakefield Market Hall. August/Sept 2019 Mars [...]
Portfolio 2015 to 2019
Portfolio Selected images and projects 2015 to 2019 Please click on the red arrows above to scroll between pages. For additional related images and information about each project click more... at the foot of each page Facing image: Back tracking with blue thread 2018 Residue from Experiment no. 2, during a [...]
Bending and Benign Series
Bending and Benign: I step into the image of the landscape as spectator and then, feet sinking into the clay, thorns draw faint lines on my arms and ankles. Loose rocks unsettle the body and the environment begins to absorb me. I press against trees, lie on the earth, drape my body over rocks and [...]
Plan for an exhibition of digital gestures
Plan for an exhibition of digital gestures Site specific installation Project Space - Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge. 4 monitors, 2 walls, electrical tape, 4 channel video, vinyl lettering with instructions to fold the corridor into a cube. 2015
Loom
Loom Video/Sculpture installation for Cambridge School of Art degree show 2015. Steel, electrical tape, video editing monitors (1997), swipe gesture (patented by Apple 2013), re-processed video documentary “From Sand to Silicon” (2013) Loom (detail -video still) Loom (detail - video still) Loom 2015
Text vb.
Text vb. Text vb. has been generated via a text conversation, the face illuminated and filmed on an iPhone. The artist plays a number and word association game in a strange reversal of the Turing test - human imitating machine. All that is seen is the facial response. Video installation as part of [...]
Hollow earth
Hollow Earth Cambridge Sustainability Residency 2014 Related works Satellite images of Bayan Obo, Mongolia where rare earth materials for digital devices are mined Equal Weight. 2014 Pillow, pillow case and equal weight of sand Resting pieces (detail) 2014 Mine (detail) 2014 Resting [...]
Failing beautifully
Failing beautifully Stills from Failing Beautifully A pixelated video of a digital reproduction of Malcolm Le Grice's 'Little Dog for Roger' I was exploring analogies between moving image and textile construction, comparing analogue and digital processes. The idea that when analogue film fails it can do so beautifully (imperfections and injuries to the materiality [...]
Project
Project Surface and projection Surface. 2013 Tissue paper, wax, silk thread, video projection 6-1-6 Gallery, Cambridge Proximity 2013 Net curtain, 2 projectors and video projections In association with Davide Natilini (Global Sustainability Institute) Exhibited at 6-1-6 Gallery, Cambridge as part of the Cambridge Sustainability Residency
