Giles Perring
Giles Perring
In 2021 I had the pleasure of co-curating a touring exhibition with Kirsty Law called ‘Exposure’ at Baile na Cille church in Uig. A collaboration between musician, sound artist and photographer Giles Perring and filmmaker and painter Andy Metcalf, with work carried out, principally, on the Isle of Jura. Kirsty had seen one of Hulabhaig’s earlier curated shows at the church and had immediately contacted me asking to bring her touring show to Uig. An opportunity I couldn’t miss. And in return Giles gifted me one of his approval prints (Pelt), which I’m now proud to include in the collection.
Giles Perring is a musician, composer, educator and cross media artist. He is founder member of the sonic sculpture collective Echo City.
Their pioneering work in the creation of giant outdoor musical instruments and participatory music making, via their sonic playgrounds, saw them traverse play, performance, community and inclusive arts, installation art and recording over a career that began in Bethnal Green London, in 1983.
As well as his work in Echo City, Giles has worked in sound and multimedia installations with collaborators like Susie Honeyman, John Cayley and Melanie Pappenheim. Giles and Susie installed the sound work ‘Marsh Music’ in their joint show with Jock MacFadyen, Iain Sinclair and Anthony Gormley at London’s Wapping Project, which they followed up with a Jerwood Commission for music to accompany ‘Black Flag’, an exhibition of monolithic images by photographer Annabel Elgar at the Wapping Project. With the digital text artist John Cayley and the singer Melanie Pappenheim, he has created various works for installation in the UK, Brazil, US and Germanys and online.
His composition credits include commissions for Salisbury Festival Chorus and La Folea, Covent Garden Festival, and in 2011, The Tall Ships Race. He composed a very successful portfolio of music for the Extreme Music Library which located his work in TV shows like ‘Sex and The City’ and ‘Lost’. As a performer, he has worked with performers and groups as diverse as industrial music’s enfant terrible Fad Gadget/Frank Tovey, the electronica duo Unmen, which he founded with Nick Cash, award winning contemporary choir The Shout, and free jazz titan Alan Wilkinson.
Pelt