Through the use of environmental stewardship a single screen video will give breathing instructions that will induce a sense of calm and well being. Sculptures will act as empathetic mascots. Faces will greet you with a smile. Old technology will mimic slightly newer technology. A complaint about the world will be lodged.

The Persuaders has been shown in two versions, the latest was a 5 room installation inhabiting Stephenson Works  the worlds first locamotive works, the Pavilion infrastructure of The Persuaders takes you through a ghost train like series of brief encounters. Sculptures and machines take on, sometimes friendly, anthropomorphic characteristics and these unlikely combinations of clay, construction timber and ephemera are fused with the electrical pulse of computer technology to catalyse and transform the obsolete nature of analogue media. 

1 — 31 March 2012

Circa Site
Stephenson Works
Newcastle upon Tyneas part of AV Festival 12: As Slow As Possible. Link

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8 — 31 July 2011

James Taylor Gallery
London Link