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My Body is a Sundial Currently on display @saatch

My Body is a Sundial

Currently on display @saatchi_gallery
Commissioned by @meltingmetropolis
Photography by @ruminskaphotographs

Tbt making My Body is a Sundial… the physical exer

Tbt making My Body is a Sundial… the physical exertion of working on such a large scale with heavy materials, hunched over while the paints were wet and then lifting their hefty forms vertical, reassembling, reordering, removing - even restarting in some cases - punished my body.

But then, too, moments when the light poured through the transparent panels and inks, revealing layers - textures, figures, hues, sight lines, shadows, reflections juxtapositions, patterns - knocked me sideways… with reminders to trust the process, to have patience, to take pleasure in the smallest of details alongside grander narratives. To let the light in, remembering how the unexpected and unplanned is often the most rewarding.

Making this sculpture - twice! As I presented a first version last year @orleanshousegallery - has dominated the past 18 months of my studio, and I’m so enjoying hearing how visitors to the current show at the @saatchi_gallery are responding to this work.

It’s been a journey! Reflecting on my own bodily relationship with the sun through time - summers past and present, sweaty and sunkissed, my childlike joy of long summer days of play, my adult fears as we overheat our world through human design. My body really *is* a sundial - a record of the intensity and too closeness of our closest star, but also a record of bodily rhythms evolved in synchronicity through deep time with something unfathomably vast and ancient and sublime.

This work is only partly made my hands. So much more of it comes alive when illuminated by the sun.

Solstice blessings, folks 🧡 Tune into your own bodily relationship to the sun today, and the shadows that you cast. What embodied stories want to be heard on this longest day in the light?

Commissioned by @meltingmetropolis
All photos my own except the first by @ruminskaphotographs.

Next week, @meltingmetropolis and I will be sharin

Next week, @meltingmetropolis and I will be sharing a very special edition of Stand of the Sun for London Climate Action Week.

The environmental history research project, supported by @wellcometrust and based at @livuni with Queens College CUNY, has been invited by @futerra to share how artists and historians have been collaborating to highlight stories of heat and health in London, Paris, Port of Spain and New York.

As part of this, I am delighted to be presenting our multidisciplinary solstice ritual for Solutions House - Futerra’s #LCAW flagship event at @somersethouse - with live dance by award-winning @alleynedance, a cosmic score composed by @bumisees and dynamic projections by @rachelsampley, which feature visuals taken from sister-sculpture ‘My Body is a Sundial’.

Following, I’ll be joined on stage by Dr Kara Schlichting, urban historian and Co-investigator of Melting Metropolis’ New York research, to explore:

• the impact and process of long term art and research collaborations,

• why engaging the public on the subject of climate change requires new myths and embodied storytelling,

• and how ‘Stand of the Sun’ carries community voices, archival sources and celestial wonder out into the public realm.

🎟️ Find out more and register to attend via @futerra.

📆16:20-17:00, next Wednesday 24 June

📷 by @albertoromano_ph, taken at @orleanshousegallery for solstice 2025.

@ldnclimateweek

BTS - studio moments in the making of My Body is a

BTS - studio moments in the making of My Body is a Sundial.
📷 @ruminskaphotographs

Hanging out in the middle of My Body is a Sundial.

Hanging out in the middle of My Body is a Sundial.

Commissioned and inspired by @meltingmetropolis

Currently on display @saatchi_gallery The Sun and Moon: Art inspired by the Celestial

Photos by @ruminskaphotographs

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Meet the musicians, engineer and producer behind t

Meet the musicians, engineer and producer behind the score for our Stand of the Sun performance 🧡🎙️🌞

Captured a few weeks ago at @fomolondonstudio by @alma_projects, the band are recording a score that has been in development for over a year ~ a 50 minute sonic journey from outer space into the heart of our cities. It expands out from the sculpture My Body is a Sundial and has been evolving over this year in response to growing international environmental history research and community stories from @meltingmetropolis.

As a (primarily) visual artist it has been so inspiring to work with this group; I’m in awe of how their collaborative spirit and mad skills have transform my words into something truly magic, taking my sculpture-sister- offering into entirely new dimensions ✨🙏🏽

We’re all really looking forward to sharing the final result!
Join us next Friday at Saatchi Lates @saatchi_gallery_events .

Featured:
Composer and vocals @bumisees
Producer @joannapenso
MD and drums @pharoahrussell
Engineer @themixroom
Vocals @emmanuelle.clem
Vocals @zamar_eden
Percussion @cosimokeitacadore
Cello @kieron.strings.sound
Ngoni, guitar and vocals @maximrad_original
Flute and sax @clarehirstsax
Soundscape and sound healing @elixilr
Double bass Miles Danso

Who’s joining us for a very special opening of the

Who’s joining us for a very special opening of the solstice weekend @saatchi_gallery?

Activating the sculpture ‘My body is a sundial’ within the current exhibition ‘The Sun and the Moon: Art inspired by the celestial’, the performance ‘Stand of the Sun’ will carry you from outer space into our sweltering cities, travelling through heat-stroked bodies into the depths of the human psyche, to reconsider our changing relationship to the Sun.

Guided by the ancient wisdom of our closest star, this is a new ritual for a time of climate collapse.

Together, through an immersive light and sound scape with dance by @alleynedance , we will reflect together on the harsh realities faced by communities in London, Paris, New York and Port of Spain and the environmental histories of urban living, while feeling into the wonder of our deep time celestial interconnectedness.

The performance is inspired by the research of @meltingmetropolis and supported by @wellcometrust .

The full solstice weekend at Saatchi Gallery is supported by @this.is.gspot, @varley, @redemptionroasters, @aesop, @icecreamunion.

Come join us 💛 Let us turn to new horizons, with “feet rooted by gravity, yet we rise and fall with the Sun”.

19 June, 6:30pm, @saatchi_gallery_events
Booking link is in my bio 👆🏽

Film by @hannahearlfilm with footage shot @orleanshousegallery in 2025 by NorthSouth.

Featuring @bumisees @emmanuelle.clem @antoinemarcmove @renakomcdonald @alleynedance @roseaida @robertdgyimah @pharoahrussell @cosimokeitacadore @clarehirstsax @max_a_hatter @kieron.strings.sound @elixilr.

Some pics from last night, celebrating the opening

Some pics from last night, celebrating the opening of The Sun and the Moon: Art inspired by the Celestial @saatchi_gallery with a couple of my Stand of the Sun crew @bumisees @pharoahrussell and environmental history @meltingmetropolis colleagues Anna Ravenscroft and Dr Kathryn Dutton.

Across nine galleries, the exhibition charts myriad ways in which creatives have explored, channeled, interrogated and honoured humanity’s relationship to sun and moon. The show opened today, on World Environment Day - naturally.

In my offering, I turn to embodied experiences of extreme heat inside the city; steel and glass and abstract figurative transparencies of ink, pouring, sweating, pulsing, dripping… across a sundial cleaved in two.

This has been a long term project with historians researching the rise of extreme urban heat and I am delighted to see it situated in the ‘Zenith’ gallery of this exhibition.

Here, you can also listen to the Stand of the Sun musical score ~ a conversation between human and sun, travelling from outer space into the city, through the body and into the depths of the human psyche. It asks: what are our bodies trying to tell us about how we are distorting our ancient relationship with our closest star?

Join us on 19 June @saatchi_gallery_events Saatchi Lates to experience this multidisciplinary activation of the sculpture - a link to tickets is in my bio.

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