Open Series (2010 - present)
A series of work which explores autobiography and place through the use of symbolic materials, process and metaphor.
Pore Project (2007 - 2012)
Begun in 2007, Pore Project is a work in progress supported by The Arts Council England, which will eventually number 300 individual pieces, as an installation. A participatory project, Pore will have been derived from sittings with at least 80 people by its completion in 2012.
Eulogy (2010)
A commission from The Grimsby Minster and Grimsby St Hugh’s Festival, as part of the Art Trail in the Minster, September 2010 through to March 2011.
Made with the help of II poppy leaves, repeatedly rubbed through onto Chinese scroll paper, the drawing signifies remembrance and how new lives may emerge from past ones.
Viewers are asked to write a memory of a loved one in the book provided by the drawing.
Losing & Finding (2009)
A series of self-portraiture developed out of the emotion of the loss of a loved one.
Heavy & Light (2008)
The Heavy & Light Series, has so far taken the shape of large paintings, small linen pieces, and a site-specific installation – the latter of which was installed during August 2008 in St James Parish Church (since summer 2010, Grimsby Minster), Grimsby; sixteen delicate 'heads' suspended in the beautiful architecture of the Grade 1 listed building, as an expression of the ephemeral and beautiful nature of life. They blend and change with the light, on occasion completed by shadow.
. . . the caterpillar which hangs in the aerial and temporary
tomb of the cocoon, changes into the inert chrysalis, and then
comes out into the light in the perfect shape of the butterfly;
the wings are still inept, weak, like crumpled tissue paper, but
in a few instants they strengthen, stretch, and the newly born
lifts into flight. It is a second birth, but at the same time it is
a death: what has flown away is a psyche, a soul, and the
ripped open cocoon, which is left on the ground is the mortal
remains.1
1 Primo Levi, Other people’s Trades, 1989, Sphere Books
Red Roar (2005 - 2006)
A selection of images from this series of work, which explores emotion through the metaphor of the colour red, supported by The Arts Council England, 2005.
Selected Images 1999 – 2005