Gabrielle Hoad

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  • Delicate Instruments
  • Clouded Border
  • Ghost Moth
  • Salt-cat (keeps them at home)
  • Turn (the) leaves
  • Fatal exchanges
  • pigeon steps
  • lie lie lie
  • Street Rockery
  • A house of leaves
  • Hide
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  • Feed
  • Columbarium (all that remains)
  • The further away they are
  • The Geometry of Air
  • Interloper
  • Listen to Easterbrooks
  • The Great British Banana
  • Mutter Erde
  • Is and Was
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  • River Bovey Walk
  • Space as defined by two
    separate systems
  • The spaces where things
    have been
  • I draw them. They draw me.
  • What the world becomes
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  • Read (to) the trees
  • The Buffer Zone
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  • Exeter Studios Project
• Moving Image
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  • the predecessor to your prayer
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The further away they are (detail) | 2014 | Laser sintered nylon 25 x 30 x 5cm

Highly detailed co-ordinates, gathered by five flocking pigeons during 74 seconds of flight, were mapped to a 3D printed model. The birds were carrying state-of-the-art data loggers, developed by the Royal Veterinary College's Structure & Motion Lab, which take readings of longitude, latitude and altitude five times a second.

Made as part of Solid Air. Shown at PILOT, Plymouth (2014), Salisbury Open Print 2014 and Open Aviary, Isle of Sheppey (2016).