Title Ghost Bridge
Location The Old Blackfriars Railway Bridge
Medium Light installation
The bridge design was simulated on top of its original supporting posts using the latest lighting technology. This prominent spectacle had a ghostly presence as it emerged slowly as night fell across the river.
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Title Classification Pending
Location Beneath London Bridge
Medium Hyper-real projection
Viewers witnessed a new life form living in the Thames. Mythical creatures evolved to form a family unit during the course of DRIFT. Only appearing at dusk, they developed into an apparition -- like the creatures of folklore before them.
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Title Much was decided before you were born (2)
Location Millennium Bridge
Medium Sound installation
People crossing the Millennium Bridge inexplicably recalled seaside experiences and holidays. Mariele’s sound installation disorientated passer’s-by, surrounding them with the sound of waves, seaside chatter, the cries of seagulls, and the eerie knocking of rigging against masts.
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Title Feast of Skulls
Location Outside Shakesreare’s Globe theatre
Medium Oil on steel
Weird and wonderful plant-like forms were painted onto a river buoy on the Thames walkway. The unearthly lush plant forms appeared to be growing, morphing and climbing the buoy.
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Title Saved from Drowning
Location Opposite TATE Modern
Medium Steel sculpture
A large-scale interactive painting, bearing witness to those who have drowned in the waters, rose and fell with the river’s tidal flow. The mirrored surface reflected a distorted view of the river’s movements whilst capturing the audience’s image within the ‘painting’. This installation celebrated the Thames renewable qualities, as it was constantly changing.
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Title Love-Love
Location Canary Wharf
Medium Sculpture
Love-Love is the name of this renovated and motorised sailboat which the artist has saved from the waves. The vessel was captured in its permanent sinking position, even whilst sailing.
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Title: Migration
Location: Outside City Hall
Medium: Painting installation
The installation was mounted on the masts and rigging of a traditional sailboat and inserted on that seminal mode of transport associated with the Thames -- the London barge. Migration celebrated the passing of time and the historical aspect of trade and people along the river.
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