Serpentine Reference VideosI've made several hundred works - there are more than 70 on Sedition art alone created between 2008 and 2026
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Tachyon Field Disorder In Other People's skins In Re Ansel Adams Prisoners 1983/84 |
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I devised the work In Re Ansel Adams to try to reveal the impact of a moving image when compared to a still image that was a past icon - both as an homage and as research. I decided I'd travel to Yosemite and take one of the new 4k cameras which few had operated and then zoom into the Bridal Veil falls six miles away using a 24mm to 294mm Anginieux movie lens - hold my breath such that on arrival back in post production I could zoom in digitally into the best detail before the image broke down into pixels - then zoom back digitally until the moment when on location I released my breath and then optically zoom back the extra 6 miles to finally resolve the shot into Ansel Adams famous photograph of Tunnel View - which also took in El Capitan and bleed the colour to black and white. In my imagination I knew that would work - then 5000 pounds later I could prove that it would. That became an AHRC 90 second easy win with government ministers.
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In Re Ansel Adams
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In Other People's Skins
In 2000 I’d begun experiments to take the screen off the wall which later became part of my AHRC fellowship - this strategy is now widely practiced to leave behind 'the proscenium arch'. I set myself the research problem with this installation of proving how increased resolution also increased engagement times - but by how long? I set up a one hour standard definition version (720 pixels x 576 pixels) and recorded times spent by audience members - then exposed the audience to an HD version (1920 x 1080) and the result was approximately 4 times the resolution equated to twice the engagement - this was simply the square law in action. All of the descriptions necessary are in this ‘making of’. Installation Loop 60 minutes. |
The Making of "In Other People's Skins"
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2025 Tachyon Field Disorder is Part of Entangled: The Human Gaze in an Age of Quantum Entanglement - this has 14 parts within 4 sections which is concerned with the movement from the Analogue era through the Digital and Quantum to the period of emergent theories of the tachyonic era. From the third collection of Entangled works: Entangled Part III: The Tachyon Field - which are a collection of three pieces which deals with the transition from the Quantum era through to the Tachyon state and what three stages are necessary to stabilise space/time. What that means is that there are three different kinds of particles in the Universe: Those that travel slower than the speed of light, those that travel at the speed of light and those that travel faster than the speed of light. The Tachyon is the only proposed particle that can go faster than the speed of light. These three works seek to visualise and so create a visual language for those three stages which are Tachyon Field Disorder, Tachyon Calibration, Tachyon Field Integrity.
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Tachyon Field Disorder
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43 years ago in 1983 I was asked by Chiatt Day Advertising in Los Angeles to cover the making of ‘1984’ for Apple Computers. This commercial was to be directed by Ridley Scott to introduce the Macintosh to the world. Costing around $1.5 million dollars, ‘1984’ was to make advertising history by being shown only once in the middle of that years Superbowl – a highly prestigious slot – never before had an advert been only shown once. The message of the whole enterprise was: ‘If you miss this, then you’re going to be at a disadvantage’. This sentiment in itself set the tone for the definition of the self at the end of the 20th century, when the self was to be defined by its likes and its dislikes. Prisoners as a work derived from the footage shot during the making of the commercial deals with the problem of ideology, the potential manipulation of meaning and the hotness or coldness of the medium as expressed by McLuhan as well as several other issues. I called this work Prisoners because I was interested in the problem of having a fixed ideology, of having a fixed set of ideas in relation to the world. To use a metaphor: it seemed to me that having sun glasses was useful whilst in the sun, but useless in the middle of the night. So therefore those people depicted in my work, the capitalists, the neo-Nazis, Thatcherites, communists, corporatists and us the anarchists video crew, were all held Prisoner by our own set of beliefs.
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Prisoners 1983 - 1984 Initially Cinematographer, then Creator
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Releases & Exhibitions 2025
ICELAND - Listasafn Árnesinga Art Museum, Hveragerði, March/April 2025
Teotihuacán is a short work referencing the Mexican archeological site and is derived from Barrier Reef which is a meditation on how we do not take care of our planet… We all know we should give more - the oceans are the life blood of the planet - they cover most of the surface of the earth - and the most delicate part of the oceans and the seas are the reefs where the most beautifully coloured creatures on the planet live amongst the sculptural formations of coral - they are an expression of beauty and themselves an emblem of the stability of the ecosphere that we live within - but these are now most at risk. These images are composed of water. United Kingdom:Testing to Destruction
RWA Open EXHIBITION Nov 2024/Jan 2025 This is a combined artwork, a religious and scientific thought experiment. To the right, the video "Neon Barcode Jesus in a Barcode World" which will be exhibited as part of the installation on the Bondai mac. The video, Barcode Jesus in a Material World is a 2017 work by Terry Flaxton, a piece of video art which commented on consumerism. Recently I realised, having shot the Ridley Scott Making of 1984 for Apple, that I had a unique in on where the digital realm has gone ocver the years. So I realised that an installation comprised of Barcode Jesus displayed on an original Bondai Snow White iMac which has been unused for twenty years, was a unique way to reveal some issues. The mac will be positioned on a four foot high plinth and then turned on to run the video for 90 days non-stop. So the work is reborn as Testing to Destruction which will examine if yesterdays technology can stand the pace of today's consumerism. Should the computer ‘fail’ before the end of the exhibition, this is then an attempt to burn in an after image of Barcode Jesus into the iMac, similar to that of the Turin Shroud. Should the work complete the exhibition then it will go on to other exhibitions until it produces the after image or simply self-destructs. |
Exhibitions & Online Releases 2026
- UK Royal West of England 173rd Annual Open, September 12, 2026, to January 3, 2027 - Italy, Venice Biennale, Palazzo Mora, ECC Exhibition, United Media Artists (UMA), Wilderness Installation, Barrier Reef & Species, May to November, 2026 - Italy, Venice, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, UMA REVEAL - Anima Mundi, Visions, Nova, The Golden Apples of the Sun, July 2026, (UMA), - Italy, Venice, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, UMA REVEAL - Anima Mundi, consciousness, Astrolabe, June 2026, (UMA) - Italy, Venice, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, UMA REVEAL - Anima Mundi, Rituals, May 2026, (UMA) The Cave of Forgotten Dreams, - Italy, Venice, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Anima Mundi, Visions, May, June, July 2026, Charlotte Humpston and Terry Flaxton Collaborative Works Experiments in Oil Painting & Digital Abstraction - Canada Montreal, La Nuit Blanche, Le Cinoche Video - Italy, Rome Experimental, Alchemical Flow, Species February 2026 - Sedition International Online Release, Entangled: 4th Collection Faster Than Light, Overself, Coming to Rest, January 2026 
Go here for a short video which describes how Resting to Destruction was reformulated into Resurection: For Jean Cocteau
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Many of my works from 2006 onwards are
published on Sedition Art 
I started working with Sedition Art around 2015 when
I got a call and was asked might I want to become a curated artist on that platform. By now, 2024 I'm currently the ninth most collected artist on the platform out of around 2000 artists. Some of whom are very well known. So at this URL you can find around 70 works. Please click the picture or this link Sedition Art and you'll see the extent of my current phase of work. Equally Long Form Artworks are an important area for me as few video artists make long form work. There's a second free artwork free on Sedition Art called Diamond Beings Forming over the Takamina Desert which can be obtained here on SeditionArt - use code: Takamina Beneath, there are a several shorts from before 2015.
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VENICE BIENNALE ANIMA MUNDI EXHIBITION 2024 - A Sad and Divine Comedy 2024 Comprising of Barrier Reef and Blue Revelation: Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Barrier Reef is a meditation on how we do not take care of our planet… We all know we should give more - the oceans are the life blood of the planet - they cover most of the surface of the earth - and the most delicate part of the oceans and the seas are the reefs where the most beautifully coloured creatures on the planet live amongst the sculptural formations of coral - they are an expression of beauty and themselves an emblem of the stability of the ecosphere that we live within - but these are now most at risk. These images are composed of water. Blue Revelation: Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a meditation on the centre of our planet which sits in the very deepest part of both the earth and within the human heart. It is a live being which dispassionately provides the heart beat and tempo for everything that lives. As the images reveal the shape and nature of the blue planet when looked at from beneath - slowly they unfold to reveal the earths exterior - which is in deep trouble. These images are composed of rock. |
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The following three works, Hearts of Oak, Once Upon a Time in Venice (Un Tempo Una Volta) & Mexico Landscapes of the Heart were released by Sedition to celebrate the Venice Biennale 2024 and were showcased at the Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello Venice during Anima Mundi in March, April, May and June 2024 and a various other locations in Venice during the Biennale.
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SEDITION RELEASE - 5th April 2024 - 1 Edition Remaining - Artwork Description From Sedition: Hearts of Oak marries the digital and analog worlds through the lens of traditional English crafts. Set against the backdrop of Somerset, England, Hearts of Oak showcases individuals engaged in age-old practices such as weaving, cheese making, sculpting and rope making to celebrate the tangible value of handmade items in today's digital age. Inspired by the poem Leisure by W.H. Davies and a verse from Lord Byron’s Childe Harold, Hearts of Oak ponders the essence of a life well-lived and the quiet wisdom found in traditional craftsmanship. As one of the pieces in Terry Flaxton's trio of works released around the Venice Biennale, Hearts of Oak offers a grounding perspective on the digital transformation of our lives through the prism of the enduring nature of analog traditions.
Soundtrack: A recording of Emily Burridge's Cello improvisations remixed and arranged by Terry Flaxton. Published 2024, 4K Video, Duration 11:28 |
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SEDITION RELEASE - 4th April 2024 - Sold Out - Artwork Description From Sedition:
Once Upon a Time in Venice (Un Tempo Una Volta). This Venetian phrase, when translated into English, is emblematic of the classic opening of European fairy tales and sets the stage for an exploration that deepens the conventional Venetian experience. Eschewing water imagery - yet evoking the feeling of water - Flaxton employs reflection and refraction to gradually transition from clear images to kaleidoscopic images and generates visions of Venice, to then push the boundaries between reality and fantasy to reveal what is behind Venice's 4th Wall. The piece begins with a journey beneath Venice's bridges, where coloured silk cascades over the camera lens, creating brief views into another realm. This artwork creates a deeper dive into what Venice symbolizes and challenges the viewer to look beyond the scenic to discover Venice’s essence, Soundtrack from a piece by Alan Lethbridge, rearranged by Terry Flaxton. Published 2024, 4K Video, Duration 13:51 Zagorsk 1992 4 minutes
It's 1991 and I've been to Russia a few times now - but our director goes down and I'm left to make up the footage he's missing. We've been near the border of Ukraine and Moldavia - and then back up to Leningrad/St Petersburg and Moscow. We have time spare so we go visit a KGB occupied Cathedral where the keep all the notes on 'the disappeared' which we've seen plenty of evidence of in the forests as townspeople had insisted we come see the unmarked massed graves of Jewish people... Meanwhile, the Orthodox church is noticeably on the rise - and we weren't yet to know it would become Nationalist - but the beauty of some of the places we went into - and this one which was stark and unadorned asked for a representation of all the above... |
Zargorsk 1992
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SEDITION RELEASE - 3rd April 2024 - 2 Editions Remaining - Artwork Description From Sedition: Mexico: Landscape of the Heart delves into the heart of Mexican culture through a blend of abstraction and representation. This palimpsest of ideas, reveals underlayers of Mexico's rich cultural heritage and the influence of iconic artists like Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. This work is a journey into the essence of Mexico, where ancient glyphs and modern representations converge to form a profoundly dynamic and personal reflection on the country's past and present. Mexico: Landscape of the Heart, Hearts of Oak, Once Upon a Time in Venice (Un Tempo Una Volta) screen in the Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello Venice during Anima Mundi in Spring and Summer 2024. Published 2024, 4K Video, Duration 29:22
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