Field Notes: Preview for Digitalism 2026

British Art Fair — Digitalism 2026

Presented at Saatchi Gallery, London as part of Digitalism at British Art Fair 2026.

This film/animation I’m showing brings together fragments from more than thirty years of sketchbooks. Drawings, notebook observations and small animations accumulate without chronology, allowing recurring thoughts, misplaced logic and everyday absurdities to surface.

Ordinary objects, snippets of language and imagined situations are treated with equal importance, creating a world in which the familiar is gently displaced rather than transformed. Rather than following a conventional narrative, the work moves through associations, repetitions and small shifts in attention.

A sound piece of sustained chords accompanies the animation, alongside a synthetic voice reading fragments of notebook observations. Together, image, sound and language create an unfolding archive of attention — a collection of thoughts, observations and visual encounters gathered over time.

The work shown within Digitalism, the digital art feature at British Art Fair, brings together artists exploring the changing relationship between contemporary art and technology. My participation marked a return to the fair following the inaugural digital art presentation in 2024 and my participation in 2025.

Field Notes

Field Notes - HD Film and Audio 2026

  • Drawing Archives

    Where do I start in selecting work for a film? Many of the drawings are taken from different times. they serve as diaries. Memories of standing on a train platform on the way to London in 2007 and overhearing conversations, digital fish, drawing the Google search logo in 2005, biro drawing, patterns... many references to the digital being made through analogue means...

  • Drawing Archives

    I've made so many drawings and deciding what to add to the animation is all a bit 'pot luck'. I must admit that there are quite a few drawings I don't particularly like in the finished animation. I'm not really that interested in making resolved and completed works. I'd rather be honest - it's all part of the mix.

  • Drawing Archives

    Looking across some of these works, I can't see any that have made it to the final animation. Perhaps one now that I glance across the drawings. Fish and chips anti-depressants, re-creating a Frieze Art Fair Instagram post. Notings of success/failure keep popping up. Invented critters converse in a restaurant discussing a local high street power cut back in 2005. 'This sides on' says person A and this sides off says person B. I wonder if the people are still alive? The drawings are a way for me to document the passing of time, notice things, make connections and keep my brain active. I can't not draw.

    A lot of the work is autobiographical referencing everyday life. I find that a lot of digital work kind of lacks the human element. I do embrace digital approaches but I think it's important to give a sense of me in the work.