A screen you can walk around
At Soho Revue, Cecilia Reeve’s Sleepwalking was projected onto four layers of gauze. The distance between those layers gave the images a physical depth a single screen could never supply. From one spot, a bird or figure might appear suspended. Move a little, and the same image would sit against a different part of the projection. The audience could change the composition simply by changing where it stood.
Keeping the grain
Reeve trained in illustration before studying animation at the Royal College of Art. The two disciplines meet in her treatment of the surface. Watercolour and gouache backgrounds carry small variations that digital layers can work with. A passing shadow can give those textures a different weight without asking the whole picture to move.
A still with a before and after
In Waiting Room, a bird and a seated figure share a scene whose action feels incomplete. Reeve crops the setting closely enough to make what lies outside it matter. There is time to wonder what brought the figures together, or whether they are aware of each other at all. The picture holds attention in much the same way as the installation. Both leave a little space for the viewer to decide what happens next.
Sources and image credits
Written by The Hasel Magazine. Background reporting: Ayla Angelos, Creative Boom, June 02, 2026. Artist website: Cecilia Reeve. Each image links to its source and includes the available credit.