Sound Drawings

Sound Drawings

‘Sounds of Sidhe. No 1. 10.40am – 11.45am. 29th July. 2025’

Graphite Sticks and Pencil on Fabriano,

60cms by 80cms

Site Responsive and Time Based Drawing: drawing sound through movement to evoke sense of place, time, and to describe emotional connections to a particular setting within the Purbecks, Dorset.

 

‘Sounds of Sidhe. No 2. 9.15pm – 10.55pm. 29th July. 2025’

Graphite Sticks and Pencil on Fabriano,

60cms by 80cms

Site Responsive and Time Based Drawing: drawing sound through movement to evoke sense of place, time, and to describe emotional connections to a particular setting within the Purbecks, Dorset.

 

‘Sounds of Sidhe. No 3. 6.15am – 8.40am. 31st July. 2025’

Graphite Sticks and Pencil on Fabriano,

60cms by 80cms

Site Responsive and Time Based Drawing: drawing sound through movement to evoke sense of place, time, and to describe emotional connections to a particular setting within the Purbecks, Dorset.

 

‘Sounds of Sidhe. Early Morning, Mid Morning and Dusk. 29th July to 31st July. 2025’

Tripdytch

Graphite Sticks and Pencil on Fabriano,

200cms by 80cms

Site Responsive and Time Based Drawing: drawing sound through movement to evoke sense of place, time, and to describe emotional connections to a particular setting within the Purbecks, Dorset.

‘Allotment Garden Soundscape, Blended, Remixed and Distorted’

Graphite on Paper

Approx 70cms diameter

2023

Drawn live within the National Justice Museum, Nottingham, during a performance workshop with musician and producer Kamal Joory for the Green Hustle Festival. Kamal live mixed a soundscape which I’d created (of an Allotment Garden, see work below) I responded to this mix live in front an audience of workshop participants.

 

‘Sounds of the Allotment Garden’

Using Homemade Charcoal (baked onsite using wood from the allotment garden)

69cms width x 102 cms height

Northampton

2022

 

Drawing Performance of the Sound Drawing ‘Sounds of the Allotment Garden’

Using Homemade Charcoal (Baked Onsite Using Wood from the Allotment Garden)

Northampton 2022

 

‘Sounds of the Allotment Garden’ 

Graphite and Mud on Paper

Site Specific Installation  

Artists in Residence @ C2C Social Action

End of Residency Celebration

Kingsthorpe Allotments, Northampton

2022

These time-based drawings explore ‘Sense of Place’, focusing in on, absorbing and translating sounds of an allotment garden and its surroundings. The mud used was taken from the site. Each mark represents a sound, made every time that sound was heard, conveyed using a key of tone, line and movement.

‘Sounds of the Allotment Garden’

Graphite and Mud on Paper

Image 1 of Triptych

50cms width, 65cms height

2021

 

‘Sounds of the Allotment Garden’

Graphite and Mud on Paper

Image 2 of Triptych

50 cms width, 65cms height

2021

 

‘Sounds of the Allotment Garden’

Graphite and Mud on Paper

Image 3 of Triptych

5ocms width, 65cms height

2021

 

‘Sounds of the Allotment Garden’

Graphite and Mud on Paper

Triptych

17ocms width, 65cms height

2021

‘Sounds of Sidhe. Midday No 1. 23rd February, 2019’

Charcoal on Fabriano, 60cms x 109.5cms

Site Responsive and Time Based Drawing: drawing sound through movement to evoke sense of place, time, and to describe emotional connections to a particular setting within the Purbecks, Dorset.

 

‘Sounds of Sidhe. Dusk No 2. 23rd February, 2019’

Charcoal on Fabriano, 60cms x 109.5cms

Site Responsive and Time Based Drawing: drawing sound through movement to evoke sense of place, time, and to describe emotional connections to a particular setting within the Purbecks, Dorset.

 

‘Sounds of Sidhe. Midday and Dusk. 23rd February, 2019’

Diptych

Charcoal on Fabriano, 130cms width x 109.5cms

Site Responsive and Time Based Drawing: drawing sound through movement to evoke sense of place, time, and to describe emotional connections to a particular setting within the Purbecks, Dorset.

‘Sounds of Sidhe. Dusk. 22nd February, 2019’

‘Sounds of Sidhe. Dusk. 22nd February 2019’

Soundscape, recorded at the time of drawing ‘Dusk No 2’. Click on the title, press play, then return to the image to look and listen. It is best listened to using headphones.