Main Areas of Focus

My interests are wide-ranging, primarily in how human beings affect and are affected by the natural world of which we are part, and the related theology and psychology of connectedness.

Artist

Creating beautiful and thought-provoking art as a means of supporting care for planet and people, nurturing a sense of place, and building community

Writer

Articles and blogs on economics, environment, nature, attentiveness, applied theology, arts, and anything that interests me

Consultant

» Website development and training
» Energy efficiency and renewable energy consultancy
» Research and reporting

Latest News and Produce

What I’ve recently produced. What I’m working on. What’s in the pipeline.

News

Are you TiCL-ish?!

I originally created the A-Z trail around Heavitree Stone sites on Placeify. But then I came across TiCL, who were really enthusiastic about adding "Q is for Quarries" to their portfolio of Exeter trails. So now there are two versions!!

Blog

1D, 2D, 3D, Go!

This weekend I was back at the Met Office for the NASA Space Apps Challenge, and joined the 3D Earthlings team to play with visualisation of data on a 3D representation of the Earth. Historic meteorite landings... BOOM!!

Article

"Working with Gold" in Digby News

One of my undertakings as Artist in Residence with Digby Community Association was to write about my work for the "Digby News", that is published each November.

Exhibition/Installation

"Turn IP" by The Swede

After complete and utter failure in 2016 and 2017, here is my third and possibly my last attempt for Turnip Prize glory.

Performance/Event

"Patterns": a Studio 36 production

Way back in the mists of time, during Art Week Exeter 2017, I had a conversation about patterns with Veronica Gosling of Studio 36. Five months later I'm singing 20th century classics and knitting on stage.

Recording

"...and the Greatest of these is Love"

In their second album, Antiphon presents world premiere recordings of three choral works by Michael Walsh: an unaccompanied Mass of the Holy Trinity; a full-scale Requiem Mass; and The Way of Love, a setting of five love poems by Rupert Brooke. We recorded it in July 2017 in the crossing and Lady Chapel in Exeter Cathedral.

Talk/Workshop

"Minecraft my home" meetup during Art Week Exeter

"Minecraft my home" is an ongoing activity as part of my "Working with Gold" programme of public art in St Loyes. It is a re-creation of St Loyes as a world in the Minecraft game. During Art Week Exeter, I held a meetup to explore the world together, share what we have been creating, and build more stuff.

Academia

Eco-theology seminars

Seminars for people on the South West Ministry Training Course, training for ministry in the Church of England.

Random Work Generator

There are a number of threads running through all my work. Here’s a random sample from each.

Attentiveness

What three words...?

What are the places that mean something to you? What three words...? started out as a coding exercise. I'd been learning Javascript, and wanted to put it into practice.

Environment

Press Release - "Freefall Youth Group to graffiti Phoenix with climate message during Art Week Exeter"

On 14th May, the route between the Exeter Phoenix arts centre and Exeter Library will be transformed, as the Freefall Youth Group wield spray cans and stencils to create a new graffiti artwork. The work, called Freefall Climate Graffiti, will feature maps of the UK showing how our climate could change in future decades.

Making

"Particulart: Ozone Day" online

Released on Ozone Day 2015, knitted representations of the three main stratospheric ozone depletion equations: the breakdown of CFC-11 in sunlight releasing a chlorine atom, and the cycle of ozone destruction catalysed by this chlorine.

Place

Building with the Quarry Pod

I haven't written much about the progress of the Heavitree Squilometre Quarry Pod. It's been a period of research then consolidation and creative pondering, by turns fascinating, inspiring, and great fun!

Play

"Little colouring book: Winter Blues" in the "Toying With Art" exhibition

It's a toy shop that isn't a toy shop, full of toys that aren't toys.

Public Engagement

Talk on "Green|Blue" at Pint of Science

This was my second trip to Pint of Science. In 2015, I took "Particulart" into The Ship Inn. In 2017, it was the turn of both "Green|Blue" and "Little Colouring Books" in the Exeter Phoenix workshop room. With a small bar in the corner, pints were assured.

Science and Data

#ExeterClimateHope at "Think...Art"

Today, my "Little colouring books of climate mindfulness" popped up in the Exeter University Forum alongside "Green|Blue: Exe". I was doing a colour-by-numbers activity as part of "Think...Art", a day of free fun artistic activities linked to the University's research themes.

Social Justice

It’s the equality, stupid

Clare Bryden. It’s the equality, stupid. Church Times, 30 July 2012.
Measures of wealth and poverty are complex and subtle; but there is one simple factor, argues Clare Bryden.