Gullfall is an evolving body of drawings and notations developed from repeated observations of gulls dropping mussels onto the rocks of Hilbre Island. Rather than treating each bird as an isolated subject, the work follows the event as a changing field of relations between gull, shell, gravity, height, impact, repetition, tide, rock and the observing body.

The drawings accumulate through overlapping, nested and repeated versions of the same witnessed action. Each iteration differs, producing a field of forces rather than a single resolved image. Movement is traced through directional lines, pauses, arcs, falls, interruptions and clustered marks, while diagrammatic annotations, verbs and shorthand notations register the event’s spatial and temporal structure.

Informed by Deleuze’s thinking on difference, repetition and the event, the work asks how drawing might remain open to what is still unfolding. Representation is not removed, but unsettled. The gull remains recognisable while also becoming movement, rhythm, force and relation.

Through sustained observation and embodied rehearsal, the drawing becomes both an analysis and an event-score: a provisional map of how bodies, materials and island conditions continually act upon and reshape one another.