We've now concluded 'An experiment in virtual environment', made possible with funding from Arts Council England and supported by Samsung.  

We've made new digital artwork exploring three North East towns who've seen considerable change in their built environment since the mid-Twentieth Century and who have each had their share of remarkable architecture come and go over the past fifty years... Gateshead, Peterlee and Killingworth.  We've explored places in each location in three different states of existence; demolished, being demolished, and never built...

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In Gateshead, we made work on the partially-demolished Clasper Village estate and worked with Bede Primary School to create an Augmented Reality work exploring Chandless Estate, demolished some years ago, but where some of the children had lived and even met one another, "a month before the crane came..."

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In Peterlee, we used digital modelling to create a 3D model of the second pavilion designed by Victor Pasmore for Peterlee in c.1969/70 but that was never built...  We discovered the South West 5 Pavilion on early plans of Peterlee during a research project on Pasmore and Peterlee in 2012.  When we were setting up the project exhibition at the DLI Durham Museum & Art Gallery, a box of full architectural drawings of the pavilion arrived that nobody knew existed.  Those drawings form the basis of this work.

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In Killingworth we created work based on the abstract, concrete play-structures that were once scattered around the Lower Garths / Shell Houses of Killingworth.  Demolished in the 1990s these structures were said to have inspired Pasmore's Apollo Pavilion (Grade II*, 1969).

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Our new work continues themes begun with Realtimelapse (2012), Virtual Killingworth (concept, 2013), Response (2015), and our work on the major Arts Council / Heritage Lottery Fund project An experiment in total environment (2011-13) that explored Victor Pasmore's significant contribution to Peterlee New Town in County Durham. ​