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We're delighted to have been selected for the inaugural Dorset Open, which will be held at Dorset Museum & Art Gallery, Dorchester DT1 1XA from 18 October to 30 November 2025. Featuring artists and makers from diverse disciplines, the show is focused on the region's landscape, people, history and culture.

We're showing Gorse Cone, 3m 23s of moving image. It was shot during a residency at Durlston Country Park in Dorset in 2022, in response to the site’s history as a lookout and World War II signalling station. Traces of the ground station with its large receiving dish have all but disappeared. The work reflects on the layers of history that lie over and under the site and discloses signals from the more-than-human that might pass beneath normal human perception.

The intervention of a paper cone in the landscape both amplifies the interaction between gorse and wind, and draws the attention of passing bees. By mimicking the movements of a radio receiving dish, it points to past activity in this location, even though the physical remains are lost.

[ID 1: A turquoise panel with type reading THE DORSET OPEN 2025 at Dorset Museum & Art Gallery 18th October to 30th November. Produced by Dorset Visual Arts.

ID 2: Cropped video still showing a yellow cone-shaped structure attached to a flowering gorse bush in a sunny meadow overlooking the sea.]

#dorsetvisualarts
#DorsetOpen2025
@gabbyhoad
#gabriellehoad
#megancalver
@durlstoncountrypark
#contemporaryart
#artistsmovingimage
#artistsfilm
#hiddensignals@

We're delighted to have been selected for the inaugural Dorset Open, which will be held at Dorset Museum & Art Gallery, Dorchester DT1 1XA from 18 October to 30 November 2025. Featuring artists and makers from diverse disciplines, the show is focused on the region's landscape, people, history and culture.

We're showing Gorse Cone, 3m 23s of moving image. It was shot during a residency at Durlston Country Park in Dorset in 2022, in response to the site’s history as a lookout and World War II signalling station. Traces of the ground station with its large receiving dish have all but disappeared. The work reflects on the layers of history that lie over and under the site and discloses signals from the more-than-human that might pass beneath normal human perception.

The intervention of a paper cone in the landscape both amplifies the interaction between gorse and wind, and draws the attention of passing bees. By mimicking the movements of a radio receiving dish, it points to past activity in this location, even though the physical remains are lost.

[ID 1: A turquoise panel with type reading THE DORSET OPEN 2025 at Dorset Museum & Art Gallery 18th October to 30th November. Produced by Dorset Visual Arts.

ID 2: Cropped video still showing a yellow cone-shaped structure attached to a flowering gorse bush in a sunny meadow overlooking the sea.]

#dorsetvisualarts
#DorsetOpen2025
@gabbyhoad
#gabriellehoad
#megancalver
@durlstoncountrypark
#contemporaryart
#artistsmovingimage
#artistsfilm
#hiddensignals@

We're pleased to present Night Piece (Swimming with Trees), a set of digital photographs and take-away postcards as part of Where Are We Now?
@thelmahulbertgallery
6 September - 25 October

Where Are We Now? is an exhibition by @camp_membership which considers contemporary environmental issues from multiple perspectives. 

The exhibition features work by 40 artists from across Devon and Cornwall including: 

Dana Aala, Ruth Bateman, Lottie Bolster, Sara Bor, Katrina Brown, Bob Budd, Megan Calver & Gabrielle Hoad, Erika Cann, Emily Chung, Caroline Collingridge, Gillian Cooper, Rachael Coward, Laura Denning, Marko Dukta, Francesca Elliott, John Elliott, Ilya Fisher, Sue Green, Angela Hilton, Karen Howse, Tim Hutton, Christina Kutter, Octavia Madden, Gill Melling, Elizabeth Orcutt, Olivia Parsons, Ann Russell, Janet Sainsbury, Penny Simons, Viv Spencer, Charlotte Squire, Frances Staniforth, Stella Tripp, Carole Weir, Emma Saffy Watson, Patricia Wilson-Smith, Claire Winfield and Melanie Young.

#campmembership
#megancalver
#gabriellehoad
#southwestartists
#contemporaryart

We're pleased to present Night Piece (Swimming with Trees), a set of digital photographs and take-away postcards as part of Where Are We Now?
@thelmahulbertgallery
6 September - 25 October

Where Are We Now? is an exhibition by @camp_membership which considers contemporary environmental issues from multiple perspectives. 

The exhibition features work by 40 artists from across Devon and Cornwall including: 

Dana Aala, Ruth Bateman, Lottie Bolster, Sara Bor, Katrina Brown, Bob Budd, Megan Calver & Gabrielle Hoad, Erika Cann, Emily Chung, Caroline Collingridge, Gillian Cooper, Rachael Coward, Laura Denning, Marko Dukta, Francesca Elliott, John Elliott, Ilya Fisher, Sue Green, Angela Hilton, Karen Howse, Tim Hutton, Christina Kutter, Octavia Madden, Gill Melling, Elizabeth Orcutt, Olivia Parsons, Ann Russell, Janet Sainsbury, Penny Simons, Viv Spencer, Charlotte Squire, Frances Staniforth, Stella Tripp, Carole Weir, Emma Saffy Watson, Patricia Wilson-Smith, Claire Winfield and Melanie Young.

#campmembership
#megancalver
#gabriellehoad
#southwestartists
#contemporaryart

We're pleased to present Night Piece (Swimming with Trees), a set of digital photographs and take-away postcards as part of Where Are We Now?
@thelmahulbertgallery
6 September - 25 October

Where Are We Now? is an exhibition by @camp_membership which considers contemporary environmental issues from multiple perspectives. 

The exhibition features work by 40 artists from across Devon and Cornwall including: 

Dana Aala, Ruth Bateman, Lottie Bolster, Sara Bor, Katrina Brown, Bob Budd, Megan Calver & Gabrielle Hoad, Erika Cann, Emily Chung, Caroline Collingridge, Gillian Cooper, Rachael Coward, Laura Denning, Marko Dukta, Francesca Elliott, John Elliott, Ilya Fisher, Sue Green, Angela Hilton, Karen Howse, Tim Hutton, Christina Kutter, Octavia Madden, Gill Melling, Elizabeth Orcutt, Olivia Parsons, Ann Russell, Janet Sainsbury, Penny Simons, Viv Spencer, Charlotte Squire, Frances Staniforth, Stella Tripp, Carole Weir, Emma Saffy Watson, Patricia Wilson-Smith, Claire Winfield and Melanie Young.

#campmembership
#megancalver
#gabriellehoad
#southwestartists
#contemporaryart

Wonderful day trip to visit @theundergroundstream.gallery with @jonenglandartist

We're lucky enough to be showing as part of an exhibition called Stone alongside Gretchen Faust, Jem Southam, Maxine Foster, Steve Thorpe and
Susie David.

Stone features a video work 'lark stone' that we made with @susiedavidart back in 2016 as part of a collaborative research project at Dawlish Warren.

[ID 1. Three people stand in a spacious white-walled gallery space with a cathedral ceiling and a wooden floor.
2. A diamond-shaped hole in an old wooden shutter gives a view of a cascading stream, framed by greenery.
3. A still from a video in which two hands gently hold a white chert above sandy soil, over which they cast a shadow.]

#theundergroundstreamgallery
#megancalver
#susiedavid
#gabriellehoad
#dawlishwarren
#throwonlytoanalertcatcher
#sitespecific
#movingimage

Wonderful day trip to visit @theundergroundstream.gallery with @jonenglandartist

We're lucky enough to be showing as part of an exhibition called Stone alongside Gretchen Faust, Jem Southam, Maxine Foster, Steve Thorpe and
Susie David.

Stone features a video work 'lark stone' that we made with @susiedavidart back in 2016 as part of a collaborative research project at Dawlish Warren.

[ID 1. Three people stand in a spacious white-walled gallery space with a cathedral ceiling and a wooden floor.
2. A diamond-shaped hole in an old wooden shutter gives a view of a cascading stream, framed by greenery.
3. A still from a video in which two hands gently hold a white chert above sandy soil, over which they cast a shadow.]

#theundergroundstreamgallery
#megancalver
#susiedavid
#gabriellehoad
#dawlishwarren
#throwonlytoanalertcatcher
#sitespecific
#movingimage

Wonderful day trip to visit @theundergroundstream.gallery with @jonenglandartist

We're lucky enough to be showing as part of an exhibition called Stone alongside Gretchen Faust, Jem Southam, Maxine Foster, Steve Thorpe and
Susie David.

Stone features a video work 'lark stone' that we made with @susiedavidart back in 2016 as part of a collaborative research project at Dawlish Warren.

[ID 1. Three people stand in a spacious white-walled gallery space with a cathedral ceiling and a wooden floor.
2. A diamond-shaped hole in an old wooden shutter gives a view of a cascading stream, framed by greenery.
3. A still from a video in which two hands gently hold a white chert above sandy soil, over which they cast a shadow.]

#theundergroundstreamgallery
#megancalver
#susiedavid
#gabriellehoad
#dawlishwarren
#throwonlytoanalertcatcher
#sitespecific
#movingimage

Spirit Trumpet – work in progress.

A little while ago, we were invited to make some work for an event in a Victorian cemetery. We began thinking about spirit trumpets, which were used during late 19th and early 20th century séances. They allowed spirits summoned by a medium to speak to those present at the séance and sometimes to relay objects (known as apports) from distant locations.

Family circumstances meant we weren't able to complete the project in time to share publicly, but we've continued to think about it.

[ID 1: A grey-haired woman in a black sweater stands with her back to the camera and looks to the ceiling. She holds up a small cardboard cone, which casts a wolf-like shadow on the pale green wall behind.

2. Two hands hold a thick roll of card against a white wall, open end towards the camera. A ghostly face is seen at the distant base of the roll, apparently speaking, and a bunch of green grapes hangs from the top right of the image.]

@gabbyhoad
#gabriellehoad
#megancalver
#spiritanimals
#apports
#spiritmediumship
#spirittrumpet
#contemporaryartists
#collaborativeartists

Spirit Trumpet – work in progress.

A little while ago, we were invited to make some work for an event in a Victorian cemetery. We began thinking about spirit trumpets, which were used during late 19th and early 20th century séances. They allowed spirits summoned by a medium to speak to those present at the séance and sometimes to relay objects (known as apports) from distant locations.

Family circumstances meant we weren't able to complete the project in time to share publicly, but we've continued to think about it.

[ID 1: A grey-haired woman in a black sweater stands with her back to the camera and looks to the ceiling. She holds up a small cardboard cone, which casts a wolf-like shadow on the pale green wall behind.

2. Two hands hold a thick roll of card against a white wall, open end towards the camera. A ghostly face is seen at the distant base of the roll, apparently speaking, and a bunch of green grapes hangs from the top right of the image.]

@gabbyhoad
#gabriellehoad
#megancalver
#spiritanimals
#apports
#spiritmediumship
#spirittrumpet
#contemporaryartists
#collaborativeartists

Thanks for having us @studio.kind as part of 'Our Place', curated by Lauren McNicholl The physical exhibition closed on Saturday 28th June but is still online at www.studiokind.org.uk/our-place-virtual-tour

We showed 'Hiding places (home from home)' 2025, digital documentation of a live action made during a residency in Durlston Country Park in 2021. Inspired by a covered, disused lamp at the Anvil Point lighthouse in Purbeck, we were investigating ideas of signalling and concealment.

Two women, exposed to the world, hide inside improvised shelters, mimicking the defensive behaviours of local wildlife. Situated in the same field, they appear to be in dialogue, yet are isolated and made more vulnerable by their camouflage.

#gabriellehoad
#megancalver
#laurenmcnicoll
#ourplace
#hidingplaces
#womensart
#contemporaryart
#devonartists
#virtualgallery

Just a few days left to see 'Our Place', a group exhibition conceived by artist/curator Lauren McNicoll, featuring artists from London alongside invited artists from across the South West, selected by Studio KIND. curator, Laura Porter.

The show includes photo documentation of a live action we made alongside work by a range of other amazing artists - all concerned with women's bodies and domestic spaces.

It runs until 28th June 2025
Wednesdays – Saturdays 12 - 5pm at
Studio KIND. At The Corn Store, Barnstaple Pannier Market, North Devon

Featured artists: 
Bunmi M.Moses @bunmimmoses
Carole Evans @_caroleevans_
Delpha Hudson
Gabrielle Hoad & Megan Calver @calverhoad
Jess Scott @ink_stain_hands
Lauren McNicoll
Laura Porter @laurakporter
Leily Mojdehi @mojjyart
Leonie Cameron @leoniecameron.art 
Millie Laing-Tate @laingtateart
Mina Fouladi @minafouladi
Monika Rycerz @monikarycerz.print
Poojan Gupta @created_poojangupta
Sarah Taylor @sarahtaylorartist
Sarah Chapman @sarah_chapman_art
Susana Higueras

Just a couple more weeks left to see 'Our Place', a group exhibition conceived by artist/curator Lauren McNicoll, featuring artists from London alongside invited artists from across the South West, selected by Studio KIND. curator, Laura Porter.

It includes photo documentation of a live action we made (detail in second image) alongside work from a range of other amazing artists, all of which dissects the importance of making as a woman through the idea of making the home.

Our Place runs until 28th June 2025
Wednesdays – Saturdays 12 - 5pm at
Studio KIND. At The Corn Store, Barnstaple Pannier Market, North Devon

Featured artists: 
Bunmi M.Moses @bunmimmoses
Carole Evans @_caroleevans_
Delpha Hudson
Gabrielle Hoad & Megan Calver @calverhoad
Jess Scott @ink_stain_hands
Lauren McNicoll
Laura Porter @laurakporter
Leily Mojdehi @mojjyart
Leonie Cameron @leoniecameron.art 
Millie Laing-Tate @laingtateart
Mina Fouladi @minafouladi
Monika Rycerz @monikarycerz.print
Poojan Gupta @created_poojangupta
Sarah Taylor @sarahtaylorartist
Sarah Chapman @sarah_chapman_art
Susana Higueras

Just a couple more weeks left to see 'Our Place', a group exhibition conceived by artist/curator Lauren McNicoll, featuring artists from London alongside invited artists from across the South West, selected by Studio KIND. curator, Laura Porter.

It includes photo documentation of a live action we made (detail in second image) alongside work from a range of other amazing artists, all of which dissects the importance of making as a woman through the idea of making the home.

Our Place runs until 28th June 2025
Wednesdays – Saturdays 12 - 5pm at
Studio KIND. At The Corn Store, Barnstaple Pannier Market, North Devon

Featured artists: 
Bunmi M.Moses @bunmimmoses
Carole Evans @_caroleevans_
Delpha Hudson
Gabrielle Hoad & Megan Calver @calverhoad
Jess Scott @ink_stain_hands
Lauren McNicoll
Laura Porter @laurakporter
Leily Mojdehi @mojjyart
Leonie Cameron @leoniecameron.art 
Millie Laing-Tate @laingtateart
Mina Fouladi @minafouladi
Monika Rycerz @monikarycerz.print
Poojan Gupta @created_poojangupta
Sarah Taylor @sarahtaylorartist
Sarah Chapman @sarah_chapman_art
Susana Higueras

We're delighted to be part of 'Our Place' , a group exhibition conceived by artist/curator Lauren McNicoll, featuring artists from London alongside invited artists from across the South West, selected by Studio KIND. curator, Laura Porter

Private view this Friday 30th May, 6-8pm at Studio KIND Barnstaple - all welcome.

The exhibition is then open from 31st May to 28th June 2025, Wednesdays – Saturdays 12 - 5pm at
Studio KIND. At The Corn Store, Barnstaple Pannier Market, North Devon

A woman’s body is a site of intensity. Its collisions with the world are often not expected or summoned but take place regardless. The exhibition is built on the idea of the domestic setting as a trope for a woman's place in the world. It dissects the importance of making as a woman, through the idea of making the home; and the societal expectation associated with this. 

Featured artists: 
Bunmi M.Moses @bunmimmoses
Carole Evans @_caroleevans_
Delpha Hudson delphahudson
Gabrielle Hoad & Megan Calver @calverhoad
Jess Scott @ink_stain_hands
Lauren McNicoll
Laura Porter @laurakporter
Leily Mojdehi @mojjyart
Leonie Cameron @leoniecameron.art 
Millie Laing-Tate @laingtateart
Mina Fouladi @minafouladi
Monika Rycerz @monikarycerz.print
Poojan Gupta @created_poojangupta
Sarah Taylor @sarahtaylorartist
Sarah Chapman @sarah_chapman_art
Susana Higueras

Warning: flashing images. We're excited to share a taste of our new 15-minute digital video (*sound on*). 

Part séance, part stream of consciousness, The Signal and the Noise explores the legacy of the World War II engineer and paranormal researcher Alec Harley Reeves, and his collaboration with the spirit of a dead physicist: Michael Faraday.
 
Based on research and development we've carried out together over the past three years in Purbeck and beyond, the film itself has been completed with the support of an ACE grant awarded to Gabby. Big thanks are due to Luke Hagan and others at Exeter Phoenix, independent film-maker Liberty Smith, and Kate Paxman of Cine Sisters SW – as well as a whole host of others who supported us in many different ways. Some helped us develop the work and ideas that ultimately led to the making of this film. Others provided voices or made an appearance, offered technical expertise, had input to funding applications, shared material, helped to clear permissions or simply provided support at home to enable us to work.  It’s all been very important to us.

We're submitting to a handful of film festivals just to see what happens. But we’re open to ideas about places and spaces where we might show our film in the future, including gallery installations, artist talks and artist screenings.  More info about the film is available in our bio.

Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England

#megancalver
#gabriellehoad
@gabbyhoad
@aceagrams
@exeterphoenix
@_liberty_smith_
@katepaxman
#DYCP
#artistmovingimage
#alecharleyreeves
#HiddenSignals
#TheSignalandtheNoise
#DOCLAB
#purbeckhistory
#purbeckfilm

"The moment passes. Attend. You may miss the signal."

Work continues on our moving image work 'The Signal and the Noise', which explores the legacy of World War II inventor and paranormal experimenter Alec Harley Reeves as a means of tuning in to hidden and fleeting signals in the landscape.  We are interested in understanding what the more‐than-human has to say - both through technology that extends our perception, but also through acts of intuition and imagination.

This work is being undertaken with support from an Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice Award.

No audio

ID: A slow pan across a patch of pale grey sand where smudgy black grains and salt lines mark the earlier movement of waves on the beach. The image resembles a spectrogram (a visual representation of audio showing time, frequency and amplitude all on one graph).

#megancalver
#gabriellehoad
@gabbyhoad
@aceagrams
#DYCP
#artistmovingimage
#alecharleyreeves
#HiddenSignals
#TheSignalandtheNoise
#spectrogram

Six months in, and we're beginning to see the final shape of our moving image work. We've been exploring the legacy of World War II inventor and paranormal experimenter Alec Harley Reeves, both through working with archives and by generating new audio and visual material.

We've focused on Reeves' time in Dorset in 1941, where he began work on an innovative radio navigation system known as Oboe. At this point in his life, he had already made contact with the spirit of Michael Faraday (1791- 1867), whom he believed guided many of his scientific discoveries. 

While working as a radio engineer, Reeves focused on separating signal from noise. It led to his development of pulse code modulation (PCM) - a key concept in the evolution of digital communications. But in his psychical investigations, Reeves set out to deliberately generate random noise, believing that signals from the spirit world might be found there.

Thanks to support from Arts Council England for Gabby's ongoing creative practice (DYCP), we have been able to shoot new footage in Purbeck and in the studio. We've had fantastic mentoring from Luke Hagan at Exeter Phoenix and independent film-maker Liberty Smith, as well as support from peers in DOCLAB and CAMP Exeter Kin. We hope to be able to share the finished film next year.

[ID 1.Photo of misty scrubland crossed by a footpath leading towards a distant mast

ID 2. Photo looking up through the centre of a mast with sharp perspective to its top. The pale grey sky is criss-crossed by dark metal struts, creating four receding zig-zag lines.]

#megancalver
@gabbyhoad
#gabriellehoad
@acegrams
#lukehagan
@exeterphoenix
@_liberty_smith_
#DYCP
#CAMPExeterKin
#artistmovingimage
#alecharleyreeves
#HiddenSignals
#thesignalandthenoise

Six months in, and we're beginning to see the final shape of our moving image work. We've been exploring the legacy of World War II inventor and paranormal experimenter Alec Harley Reeves, both through working with archives and by generating new audio and visual material.

We've focused on Reeves' time in Dorset in 1941, where he began work on an innovative radio navigation system known as Oboe. At this point in his life, he had already made contact with the spirit of Michael Faraday (1791- 1867), whom he believed guided many of his scientific discoveries. 

While working as a radio engineer, Reeves focused on separating signal from noise. It led to his development of pulse code modulation (PCM) - a key concept in the evolution of digital communications. But in his psychical investigations, Reeves set out to deliberately generate random noise, believing that signals from the spirit world might be found there.

Thanks to support from Arts Council England for Gabby's ongoing creative practice (DYCP), we have been able to shoot new footage in Purbeck and in the studio. We've had fantastic mentoring from Luke Hagan at Exeter Phoenix and independent film-maker Liberty Smith, as well as support from peers in DOCLAB and CAMP Exeter Kin. We hope to be able to share the finished film next year.

[ID 1.Photo of misty scrubland crossed by a footpath leading towards a distant mast

ID 2. Photo looking up through the centre of a mast with sharp perspective to its top. The pale grey sky is criss-crossed by dark metal struts, creating four receding zig-zag lines.]

#megancalver
@gabbyhoad
#gabriellehoad
@acegrams
#lukehagan
@exeterphoenix
@_liberty_smith_
#DYCP
#CAMPExeterKin
#artistmovingimage
#alecharleyreeves
#HiddenSignals
#thesignalandthenoise

We are very happy to be part of the Summer Open at Studio KIND in Barnstaple, along with many other artists from across Devon, including a number of our #campexeterkin. The exhibition runs from 24 August to 21 September and is open Wed - Sat 12-5pm. StudioKIND. at the Corn Store, Pannier Market, Butchers Row, Barnstaple EX31 1SY.

@studio.kind
#summeropen2024
#DevonArtists
#MeganCalver
#GabrielleHoad
#Barnstaple