2022
Reclaimed materials including wood and cast iron bench legs.
Dimensions: (w) 150 x (h) 85 x (d) 90 cm
A bench design dictated by branches the artist found and carved a poem into, written in lockdown to celebrate the rediscovery of local public green spaces and feeling in the present. These organic forms, intertwined with the regular structure of a public bench, transform familiar relations to public space inviting new happenings and fun interactions with poetry.
(Recently exhibited at To build a bench solo exhibition including the launch of Live @ The Bench).
2023
Digital prints on paper, dimensions variable.
Digital photographs of found 'Letting Go Plates' fragments printed to form a large format montage on gallery floor covered with transparent mat inviting visitors to walk on piece.
Adapted for display at To build a bench exhibition.
2021
Digital renders
Dimensions variable
(Installation shots from AORA: V 'nature/nurture' virtual exhibition situated in The Garden at AORA Space).
"But a few scattered across the field walking to the free play of the saxophonist. I begin to recognize the song he riffs to and then it fades away. 'Young hearts, run free, never be hung up, hung up like my man and me.'
He paces the field as he breathes into his saxophone and I gaze upon the distant view and the endless green smiling to his distant melodies that come and go like a gentle wind on a calm still day.
He doesn't need an audience, he just continues. Free to play to his heart's content and as loud as can be in the open field near me."
2019
Consisting of:
Interactive installation of a hand made paper flip book of digital prints on paper accompanied by digital soundtrack of a piano composition by the artist via wireless headphones. Dimensions of flip book: (height) 7 x (width) 9.5 cm, length variable.
Digital stop motion film with the same digital soundtrack. Duration: 1 minute and 6 seconds on loop.
An exercise in concentration and consciousness. Based on an image of a curtain which has been the trigger of this exploration of more sensitive ways of viewing moving images. The viewer is presented with two translations of the same stop motion film. Starting with a flip book of all the film frames methodically bound by hand accompanied by an original soundtrack, integrated into the architecture of the gallery via a tailor-made shelf along the main staircase, as an interactive installation and ending with a display of a digital colour version of the film.
In the film we see a curtain battling to filter the brightness of the light behind it that tries to punch through with its pushy independence at the hit of each note on the piano.
Both the installation and the film offer different effects on the senses by using a musical composition, variations in colour saturation and touch to conduct an independent viewing of the moving images that is most comfortable for the individual.
Currently on display at The End of Language- Wittgenstein Reimagined group exhibition at The Gallery-Legacy of Milica Zorić and Rodoljub Čolaković- The Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Serbia, open from 15 March-6 May 2024.
Previously displayed Taivassa group exhibition along the main staircase of Hirvitalo- Centre of Contemporary Art Pispala, Finland, in 2019.
2019 Four suspended digital prints on paper Each 3 x 1 m
A montage of digitally enlarged photocopies of found lamp post images intersecting the open industrial gallery space of ASC Art House Croydon studio community.
Exhibited at Art House Croydon Open Studios Group Exhibition in September 2019. As part of the first open studios event at ASC Art House Croydon studios, where I am a resident artist, I curated an open group exhibition of works by the resident artists and designers in the main gallery space.
I am always looking for opportunities to work closely with local communities to develop my interest in site specific storytelling. Observing and respecting the character of existing places and buildings is important to me across all my projects and has led to my participation in pop-up exhibitions in existing establishments, dealing with the multi-layered and overlapping history of buildings. In my work, I like to focus on translating the pure spirit of an individual or collective experience of a place or an event as a lingering memory. Here are two key examples of my pop-up exhibition work in Denmark…