His first large scale work Iddu (2007) was made over 5 years on the landscape of the active volcano Stromboli in Italy and jointly funded through the Arts Council of England and the NESTA Foundation. This 360 degree multi screen film installation was first shown at MUDAM Luxembourg in 2007 in the form of a 9m diameter 3m high tent which the spectator entered to view the 15 minute work. The work will travel in Sept 2010 to its first Biennial at Busan, South Korea.
In 2008 he turned to sculpture and made the first of his Suspended Animation sculptures, where Graham enhances the living qualities of stone. Every flint contains a naturally made hole which ancients believed possessed healing qualities, and the sculptural forms resemble warped skeletal frames imperceptibly hovering above the ground. This is not unrelated to his film Losing Seahenge (1999) which clearly laments the sacrilegious removal of a 4000 year old burial site to a sterile ‘geological zoo’, a site now lost for ever as a result of its autopsy and excavation.
Having trained traditionally in photography and filmmaking, Graham particularly enjoys the interface between analogue processes and high end technology. Recently, many of his projects like Albion (2006), and the ongoing Voyage print series, have been made uniquely using polaroid, which is believed to be the only visual medium to successfully capture the energetic field of a place or person. Likewise his latest project Pilgrimage (2009) was created during a five day walk along the St.Michael ley-line that runs from the tip of Cornwall, through Glastonbury Tor & Avebury, to Bury St.Edmunds and the Eastern tip of Norfolk.
Graham sites two important factors fundamental to his work. First, ‘intuition’, the catalyst behind the creation of every artwork, and second, ‘resonance’ the result of the work as expressed through the viewer. He lives and works in London.