Enchantment (2013) is a 26-minute audiovisual work developed through an interplay between filmed landscape, drawing and animation. Working across moving image, sound and hand-drawn visual processes, the project explored how sensory encounters with environment could generate symbolic and atmospheric visual language.
During this process, drawing began to shift from illustration toward a method of investigation — emerging directly from observation, movement and environmental experience. This transition forms an early foundation for my current research exploring site-responsive drawing as a primary artistic methodology.
The excerpt presented here introduces the sensory and visual approach that informs the ongoing research project Sensory Encounters.
The work was screened at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and later presented through an independently organised outdoor screening in Newcastle upon Tyne, alongside participatory workshops and documentary activity with young people in Byker.
Creative engagement session with young children following a presentation of Enchantment at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, exploring sensory and imaginative responses to landscape and moving image.