We first worked with Oli back in 2017, when we produced and ran Penryn Arts Festival. He developed a workshop as part of the Skills Share Fair which taught participants about the origins of photography and the magic of optics through making a sculptural camera obscura. Then in 2019 we commissioned him again, this time as one of the artists for Goonhilly Village Green, where he created an immersive camera obscura that played with selection and optics to focus in on different aspects of the landscape. The structure was temporarily situated on the Downs, allowing visitors to re-examine the landscape through the distortion of multiple lenses.

Oli uses alternative analogue and digital processes, natural materials and camera-less methods of image making to expand upon notions of what photography is and can be.