Laid To Rest, 2011

There's a Strange Wind Blowing, 2010

Decosa Tradition Stockholm Keifer/pin, 2010

The Namer of Clouds Lived and Died Here, 2010

How to Dig a Hole and Climb a Mountain, 2009

The Answer Lies at the End of the Line, 2008

The Library of Secrets, 2007

No. 7 Bruce Grove

Maarten Aubaum, on cyclones and tempests, Tate Britain

Gavin Pretor-Pinney, on cloud appreciation, Tate Britain

Turning in to a Cloud, Tate Britain

The Namer of Clouds Lived and Died Here

Everyday on my way to work I pass a derelict house, No 7 Bruce Grove. The house is boarded up and in disrepair, it has been like this for over 20 years, people stand in front of it waiting for the 243 bus completely unaware of its significance. I only became aware of its meteorological importance when I noticed a blue plaque commemorating one of its early inhabitants Luke Howard: the namer of clouds. I was captivated by the plaque and the idea that one person had been responsible for naming this most transient and ephemeral of things, clouds. I embarked upon a series of performances celebrating the romantic and scientific notions that propelled Howard’s amateur enquiries. This culminated in a guided tour of clouds in the collection of Tate Britain, bringing together meteorologists, historians and cloud enthusiasts. Including contributions from: John E Thornes (author of John Constable’s Skies: a fusion of art and science), Giles Harrison and Maarten Aubaum (meteorologists from Reading University), Howard and Sylvia Oliver (on the history of Luke Howard) and Gavin Pretor-Pinney (founder of The Cloud Appreciation Society).

The guided tour culminated in me turning in to a cloud.