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These artworks address communication through voice and language and the interplay between hearing and listening (the vocal, the spoken) and seeing and reading (the visual, the written). Using collaboration and performance with field recording, digital imaging and the spoken/written word I am currently exploring an expanded approach to language within species and across species through a framework of everyday experience and the maladaptive, mixed and complex conditions that occur in our cities today.

     
 
   

Fivex Art Prize Two digital billboards, corner Flinders and Elizabeth Streets, central Melbourne
14 December 2020 to 31 January 2021 (First Prize)

     
     
    2026
   

New commission for Tierstimmen. Kontakt durch Klang, curated by Jessica Ullrich and Martin Ullrich at Museum Sinclair-Haus Bad Homburg, Germany opening 13 September

   

Radiophenia The Light at the end of the Dial
I have a work in the fabulous Radiophrenia 16 day 24 hour listening marathon 5-20 September!
Glasgow on the dial at 87.9 FM
Online streaming at radiophrenia.scot (radiophrenia.scot)

   

Bird Hide London 24, 25, 26 July Outhouse Gallery Brunswick Park London SE5 7RH
@cathclover
Bird Hide will operate like a studio, a residency, a work in progress with a lo fi, DIY improvisational participatory ethos. It will function as a sonic (primarily, but also visual) prompt for the possibility of sharing multispecies urban territories. It will include sound walks and bird id workshops. A final performance will take place on Saturday 25 July. More info coming soon
Collaborators
Roseanna Bartley, Tessa Farmer, Johanna Hällsten, Rosemarie McGoldrick, Katja Hillevaara, Yang Yeung, Colm McAuliffe, Viv Corringham, Israel Martinez, Rikke Hansen and Tanja Nellemann Kruse, Paul Tecklenberg and Mikey Georgeson, Joe Stevens, Heather Ackroyd, Ian Wadley, Caroline Kennedy
Birds
Ring Necked Parakeet, House Sparrow, Blackcap, Blackbird, Chaffinch, Chiffchaff, Robin, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Herring Gull, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Wood Pigeon, Wren, Dunnock, Jay

    Sonorities Music Festival Belfast 15-18 April
I am running two soundwalks on Thursday 16 April in the wonderful city of Belfast
   


    2025
    An Acoustic Commons of the East Atlantic Flyway
Published by Wild Pansy Press for The Writer's Room
210 mm x 210 mm, Perfect bound, B&W, 44 pages on Recycled Natural
Edition of 100. ISBN:978-1-900687-96-6
Available from Wild Pansy Press, University of Leeds or direct
    Aesth/Ethics: hospitality in art and society
Keynote Artist for the 5th interdisciplinary Ereignis conference in Gdynia, Poland, August 9/10, 2025. Ereignis Centre for Philosophy and the Arts, Norway
    Bethnal Green Nature Reserve
A workshop as part of the Community Ecologies Programme
July 2025
    Common Creatures, Bewildering Beasts curated by Rikke Hansen and Tanja Nellemann-Kruse.
KH7 Artspace in Aarhus, Denmark
    The Writer's Room Islington a four week residency with Wild Pansy Press, London
    2024
    Home Ground Season 11 MPavilion, Melbourne
Homing Songs 2pm-4pm Sunday 15 December 2024
Listening for Homing Songs 7.30am-8.10am Tuesday 17 December 2024
    Listening Academy Hong Kong November 2024 invited artist
    B-Side Radio Blindside, Melbourne 21 Nov-13 Dec 2024
   

All I want for Xmas is ... Peace Harts Lane Open & Fundraiser, Peckham, London 6-8 December, 2024

   

Winter Show Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, London
30 November 2024 – 2 February 2025, 10am-5pm Free

    Annual Open 2024 Southwark Park Galleries London
Saturday 2 November - Saturday 14 December, Wednesday - Sunday, 11am - 4pm
    Love Letters Book project curated by Roseanne Bartley, launched September 2024
    Alternative School/Small Acts Parasite, Hong Kong. Mentor for Emerging Arts Professionals Sept 2024
   

Songs for Silvertown and the Île de Gorée
Sat 10 August 2024 from 4pm
A participatory voicing through the Tate Institute, Silvertown, London
A site-specific sonic response to the derelict Tate Institute and its connections to sugar industrialist and founder of Tate Britain, Henry Tate, the route of the British colonial sugar trade and enslaved African peoples, and the migratory pathways of songbirds between London, UK and Dakar, Senegal.
With thanks to all at the Tate Institute revitalisation project ReinsTate.

   

Quiet Urgency: Disturbing Sonic Ecologies 5-8 June 2024
Soncities X MA Cities, Central St Martins, London
Organised by Gascia Ouzounian, John Bingham-Hall, Diana Ibáñez López
The aim of this week is to bring together colleagues engaged in conceptualising, planning, performing and designing sonic ecologies, to reflect critically on this concept and how it might be translated into city-making practice. It takes place in the context of the 20th anniversary of the Sounder City strategy, the Mayor’s Ambient Noise Strategy for London – which still stands as the main policy document dealing with qualitative aspects of soundscape – and will aim to produce speculative policy interventions to update the strategy for the current moment.

    Deep Speech-Dialogues Inter-especes
With Catherine Clover, Maeve Longvert, Oussama Tabti curated by Elena Biserna and LabGamerz
as part of Biennale d'Aix Vernissage 6 April a 15h
6 April - 5 May, 2024 Chapelle Venel, 27 Rue Venel, Aix-en-Provence, France
My contribution is a site specific visual response to the language of the local bird the Wallcreeper via the chapel architecture and acoustics
    Eavesdropping
A Festival of Experimental Musics curated by Juliet Fraser
Cafe Oto London 21-24 March 2024
Experiments in Failure forum dates 23, 24 March
My contribution is based on my handwritten transcription process for notating the birds, a process that is slow, awkward, dithering, faltering – a failure compared to the supremely streamlined delivery of most birds
   

Words from the Wild
Symposium at Royal Holloway, University of London
Language and ecology. The Words and Worlds symposium on 22 March 2024 will explore the possibilities of language as an intermediary between humans, plants, animals, and other nonhuman beings.
Keynote speaker Simon Morris
My contribution is a voicing based on Common Blackbirds as birds of empire

     
     
   


     
   

In the pipeline 2025-6

** Postponed Covid 19 Taiwanese Contemporary Arts Residency Language and Liberty coordinated by SITUATE RMIT University, Taipei National University of the Arts and Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts,Taiwan

     
   

 

   

Teaching (current 2025)
Swinburne University/Open University Australia Master of Writing (MA-WRI) (distance learning)
Goldsmiths London Centre for Academic Language and Literacies; Department of Music

     
     
     
    Acknowledgement of Country
I respectfully acknowledge the Wurundjeri people as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I work and live (Naarm - Melbourne), for which sovereignty was never ceded, and wish to pay my respects to Elders of the Kulin Nation past, present, and emerging
     
    Creative Commons License These artworks are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
     
     
     
   

 

     
     
     
     
   
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