Eoin Furbank

I am a multidisciplinary designer, working across sound, light and creative fabrication. I enjoy working inventively to bring unusual and ambitious ideas to fruition.

I was previously the co-director of Tom Thumb (2013-17) and am currently co-director of Dot Dash (2009-ongoing).

I have worked across film, theatre, music and visual art, for a variety of organisations. Favourites include working with companies such as the RSC, Kneehigh, Moving Memory and Nigel & Louise at venues such as Theatre Royal Haymarket, Dreamland, Turner Contemporary and Little Angel. I have also produced site responsive installations for SHUNT, Transmediale Festival and Future Sonic, amongst others.

CV

Education

2002-2005        BA (Hons) Fine Art: First Class, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth

Dot Dash

Dot Dash is the collaboration between Jessica Jordan-Wrench and I. Together we make noisy theatre, live and installation art. Work includes a 32 second punk gig in the lift of the Turner Contemporary, a skate ramp backed by movement responsive projections in a 1920s cinema, a collaboration with an astrophysicist on a show about entropy (featuring a 30m train-set) in furniture depository, a a morse code conversation using signal lamps that could be seen from 7km away, a large scale sound, light and text installation on Dreamland’s big wheel, a guided meditation (from a lion and a megaphone) on a carousel, a Karaoke session featuring Tears for Fears slowed down by 400%, a binaural audio work exploring the elasticity and relativity of time. Individually and in collaboration, our work crosses disciplines and contexts: experimental theatre, DIY music, “fine” art, in warehouses, galleries, theatres, music venues, a water tower. It is, however, held together by a common thread: an eagerness to create work that physically engages with an audience. Inviting an active audience is at the core of our practice. For more info on Dot Dash please see here.

Tom Thumb

Tom Thumb is one of the smallest theatres in the world, yet we built a reputation nationally as a creative hub for live arts, feeding into Margate’s rapidly changing cultural landscape. We welcomed a diverse range of acclaimed artists, implanted a successful ACE funded residency programme and engaged and empowered local audiences.

SELECTED WORKS

Creative Fabricator on Departures

I constructed a purpose built split-flap display, for a noisy text installation in Margate Station, based around exploring the radically unstable concept of ‘now’.

Creative Fabricator on you took the words right out of my mouth

I built an altered rotary phone, through which audience members listened to the audio for a film installation in a phone booth at The Violet Hour, part of Turner Contemporaries offsite programme for their exhibition Journeys with The Waste Land.