Sally Stenton Artist

The Walk is Not a LINE The walk formed part of the Art Language Location TEN:th anniversary celebrations in October 2023 It dovetailed with the year long project 'Walking Beyond Words' which enabled people to walk in Cambridge at the same time as people in other locations, including Bombay and Delhi and other parts of [...]

...a fleeting adherence to trees     in collaboration with the ceramicist Sandy Layton   Layered image and writing 2021   Experiments with the projection of ceramic sculpture onto trees and grass, writing in response, mixing our lines, our media and our intentions.                         [...]

An audio guide for the complacent walker September 2020 Audio file  [original version] Featured in the 2021 Royal College of Art Research Biennale Modified version Performed at ArtSpace, Cambridge on 11th September 2022

and you sounds is an audio piece that you are invited to take for a walk. It has emerged from an ongoing walking collaboration between Jo Miller and Sally Stenton. We walked together at a distance, about 12 miles apart. Sounds from our walks mingled, crossing the edges of our digital devices. The next day [...]

A giant circle in the sand at Hunstanton to represent Mars. The photo was featured as part of an artwork entitled ‘Relative’ in conjunction with Tony Wade. https://tonywadeart.wordpress.com/2019/07/09/relative/. This is featured as part of The Festival of the Moon at Wakefield Market Hall. August/Sept 2019 Mars by Proxy - Circle created by Sally Stenton and [...]

Portfolio Selected images and projects 2015 to 2019 Please click on the red arrows above to scroll between pages. For additional related images and information about each project click more... at the foot of each page           Facing image: Back tracking with blue thread  2018 Residue from Experiment no. 2,  during a [...]

Bending and Benign: I step into the image of the landscape as spectator and then, feet sinking into the clay, thorns draw faint lines on my arms and ankles. Loose rocks unsettle the body and the environment begins to absorb me. I press against trees, lie on the earth, drape my body over rocks and [...]

Plan for an exhibition of digital gestures   Site specific installation Project Space - Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge. 4 monitors, 2 walls, electrical tape, 4 channel video, vinyl lettering with instructions to fold the corridor into a cube. 2015

Offline     Sculptural gestures and installations 2014

Loom     Video/Sculpture installation for Cambridge School of Art degree show 2015. Steel, electrical tape, video editing monitors (1997), swipe gesture (patented by Apple 2013), re-processed video documentary “From Sand to Silicon” (2013) Loom (detail -video still) Loom (detail - video still) Loom 2015

  Text vb.   Text vb. has been generated via a text conversation, the face illuminated and filmed on an iPhone. The artist plays a number and word association game in a strange reversal of the Turing test - human imitating machine. All that is seen is the facial response.  Video installation as part of [...]

      Equal Weight. 2014 Pillow, pillow case and equal weight of sand Hollow Earth Exhibition Norfolk Street Gallery, Cambridge       Resting pieces (detail)  2014

  Failing beautifully Errors, scratches and blips add beauty to film, but when digital moving image fails it, it fails. Or does it?   Stills from Failing Beautifully: A pixelated video of a digital reproduction of Malcolm Le Grice's 'Little Dog for Roger' 

      Surface. 2013 Tissue paper, wax, silk thread, video projection 6-1-6 Gallery, Cambridge A moving image of  silk being ironed, projected onto a small suspended sheet of tissue paper made translucent by wax ironed into it.