NFT (Non-Fungible Tintypes)
Project: NFT (Non-Fungible Tintypes)
Year: 2024
Discipline: Print
Client: Self Initiated
Collaborators: Gareth Jarvis, Studio Dosage
The combination of the dissemination of AI images and spatial computing creates a post-truth environment where it has become increasingly difficult to establish what is real.
Created in collaboration with Gareth Jarvis, a photographer and printmaker specialising in wet plate collodion and platinum printing. The work utalises 19th-century techniques to create a set of three ambrotypes, featuring digital images captured using augmented reality, inserting a structure into three triangulated locations in the U.K. Consequently reappropriating a method that was once the purest representation of the truth. The work intends to explore our relationship with the image, conspiracy and trust in modern society.
Noah x Sniffin' Glue
Project: Noah x Sniffin' Glue
Year: 2023
Discipline: Digital, Print, Film, Creative Direction
Client: Noah
Website: noahny.com
Collaborators: Mark Perry, Chris Hickson, Chiara Gabellini
Capsule collection between Noah NY and legendary 1970s punk fanzine Sniffin’ Glue. The zine was one of the most critical resources about punk's first year, from early articles on the Ramones, the Damned, and the Sex Pistols, to the first-ever interview with the Clash.
The project involved working closely with Sniffin' Glue founder Mark Perry to create assets and marketing material using the same DIY methods he used to craft the original zines, all while sharing his firsthand perspective of the early UK punk scene and the continued impact of Sniffin' Glue, in the form of a short film.
The campaign featured original collages of photographs of Stella Rose and the Dead Language, an up-and-coming New York-based band, shot by Chiara Gabellini.
Null Object
Project: Null Object
Year: 2023
Discipline: Identity
Client: Null Object
Website: nullobject.io
Null Object is a platform for creative technology research, enterprise and pedagogy. Working with a range of clients to provide Creative Technology solutions using techniques at the frontier of digital technology including: Machine Learning, Brain Computer Interfaces, DNA Data Storage.
The design approach for the identity is inspired by Null Object’s coding process, which involves bringing together disparate, often unrelated technologies and making them work harmoniously. To visually represent this idea, the identity utilises two distinctly different styles, a sans serif typeface and hand drawn elements to represent the human hand of the coder alongside the digital technology. In addition to depicting a null object symbol, the icon represents finding an organic path through a binary solution.
TONY
Project: TONY
Year: 2022
Discipline: Film, Art Direction, Installation
Client: Self Initiated
Collaborators: Oliver Nixon, Daisy Rickman, Squirrel
TONY is a 16mm short film documenting the career of Tony Howes, a Newlyn-based door to door mobile fishmonger. Tony’s been in the fish trade for 50 years, giving him a unique perspective on the local fishing industry in Cornwall. However, Tony’s job is significant not just as a fishmonger, but as a pillar of the community that many people rely on. I started working on the film two years ago, as he felt it was an important social document to capture, especially as it’s coming to an end and may not continue.
The cinematography was operated by Oliver Nixon, a local photographer and filmmaker. To accompany the film, Oliver has taken a series of photographs of Tony, his customers and colleagues at Newlyn Fish Co.
I worked closely with local signwriter and boat painter Squirrel, who hand painted Tony’s first van in the early ’80s, to paint the title cards and credits. The original music for the film was composed by talented artist and musician Daisy Rickman.
Captain Banplastic
Project: Captain Banplastic
Year: 2018—2022
Discipline: Art Direction, Illustration, Design, Print
Client: Self Initiated
Website: shop.captainbanplastic.co.uk
Collaborators: Valentina Concordia
Created in response to the lack of superheroes with an environmental and ethical standpoint, as well as visually interesting campaigns aimed at encouraging the refusal of single-use plastics. As a surfer, I am very aware of the problem of plastic pollution present on our beaches and in our oceans. I am passionate about raising awareness and helping fund causes tackling the problem first hand, and Captain Banplastic is my attempt at solving these issues.
Junkwax Records
Year: 2021—2022
Discipline: Identity, Art Direction, Print
Client: Junkwax Records
Design and art direction for independent record store Junkwax Records, creating identities, merchandise design and marketing material for events.
(Ad)ssemblage
Project: (Ad)ssemblage
Year: 2021
Discipline: Programming, Design, Print
Client: Self Initiated
Website: algorithmic.studio
Collaborators: Kristian Jones
Exploring the relationship between advertising and technology, (Ad)ssemblage comprises a series of images created using a procedural algorithm and a database of advertising imagery for luxury goods. The system produces a mass assemblage, consequently demanding the viewer sees imagery that would not typically be used together in advertisements. However, the final images still feel like genuine adverts because the core elements of traditional advertising remain.
(Ad)ssemblage is an artwork created in collaboration with Kristian Jones through Algorithmic Studio.
Bristol Pound
Project: Bristol Pound Notes
Year: 2018—2021
Discipline: Illustration
Client: Bristol Pound
Website: bristolpound.org
Power in Numbers was selected to be featured on the new edition of the Bristol Pound notes, released in June 2018. Power in Numbers is a piece that attempts to capture Bristol’s unique anti-establishment and egalitarian sentiments. Reappropriating the protester's heads with megaphones is a metaphor for the amplification of the voice and coming together to be heard to benefit the wider community.
Clickety Click
Project: Clickety Click
Year: 2021
Discipline: Design, Web Development, Print, Film
Collaborators: Knowle West Media Centre, University of Bristol
Website: click.knowlewest.co.uk
In 2020, during the first lockdown, Knowle West Media Centre worked with University of Bristol researchers to create a survey exploring digital exclusion in Knowle West, Bristol. 275 households took part in the survey. The survey asked how people use, access and feel about the internet and technologies such as smartphones, laptops, etc.
The results of the data were analysed by researchers into a draft report. The emergent findings challenged over-simplified ideas that solving digital exclusion is just a matter of providing the necessary equipment or that it is only the older generation who are not engaging with technology.
Clickety Click is a community-led interactive data visualisation artwork, which exists both in analogue and digital forms. It attempts to make the findings from the report playable and engaging to people of all ages. It uses the game of bingo, which has a long history in Knowle West, as a vessel to do this.
'Unstable'
Project: ‘Unstable’
Year: 2018—2020
Discipline: Design, Print, AR
Client: Self Initiated
Website: unstable.radleycook.com
‘Unstable’ is an artwork created to encapsulate my feelings about the EU referendum. 'Unstable' AR, is an augmented reality instance of the work, which allows users to plant an augmented reality flag into their environment and capture an image through their smartphone. Historically a flag conveys the ideas, ambitions and values of a country, organisation or individual, this flag is no different.
Life Cycle
Project: Bike Back Flyer
Year: 2019
Discipline: Illustration, Design, Print
Client: Life Cycle UK
Life Cycle UK work closely with inmates at HMP Bristol, to teach them to refurbish bikes for the community, reducing waste and enabling more people to cycle through their Bike Back initiative. Illustration was integral to this project because the prisoners could not be photographed. The flyer promoted the good work they do and was included inside The Bristol Cable newspaper.