Woven Voyage
Woven Voyage
Hoop made from Beech branches, paper from Thomas Hardy's 'Far From the Madding Crowd', acid-free glue. Branches thanks to Kazuhito Takadoi
80x70cm
2022
Steep Street
Steep Street
Winter window display for Streep Street Coffee and Book Shop. A collaboration with Alison Neighbour, each little circular 'window' told a section of a story. The circles were lit and held within trails of text from literature, music and history books.
2022
Labour
Labour
Beet fork, paper, acid-free glue
Made for St Mary's Church as part of Art in Romney Marsh
2016
Turn
Turn
Old wheel cap, bees wax, paper, acid-free glue
Made for St Mary's Church as part of Art in Romney Marsh
2016
Searching
Searching
Cut book (Balzac’s La Recherche de L’Absolu)
40x50x7cm
2016
Chance Encounters
Chance Encounters
Installed for Steep Street Coffee House in Folkestone; Romantic old sheet music, atlases, math/science texts and other random pages from story books and old encyclopedias
200x100x5cm
2016
Dodecahedron Dreaming
Dodecahedron Dreaming (maquette)
Paper, card, glue, found figure, light
20” diameter
2007
Text taken from 6 books; The Travels of Marco Polo, Don Quixote, Tales from the Arabian Nights, The Lost World, The Iliad, Around the World in 80 Days. A tiny architectural model of a woman looks up towards this paper sphere which in turn throws its own larger, intricately complex, shadow onto the gallery wall. Part of a series of text based spheres; the work is a playful exploration of imagination, vicarious travel, making connections, making one’s own sense of the world.
Cylinders
Cylinders - Photocopied text - Dimensions variable - 2007
The text is enlarged, extracted from Foucault’s ‘The Archaeology of Knowledge’. Randomly arranged giant cylinders of text question the traditions of order, sense, linear knowledge, memory, information storage and retrieval.
Einstein’s Window
Einstein’s Window - Extracts cut from Mozart, Bach and Martinu violin scores, 1940’s maps of Europe, Einstein’s writings, found sash windows, acid-free glue. - 35 x 68” - 2009
Inspired by a found drawing of nuclear space, and a programme on Radio 4 about the connection between music and mathematics/logic; also by the fact that the resolution of complex ideas often comes when daydreaming or relaxing.
Alice's Word Worlds
Alice's Word Worlds - Paper from ‘Alice in Wonderland’, thread, wooden sticks, gas lamp - 5x5ft (variable) - 2005
An installation in a derelict house in Nunhead for Camberwell Arts Week, the gentle hissing of a gas lamp created a subtle movement of the text worlds and threw soft shadows onto the walls of the old house. The work referenced the potential of imagination, childhood, and the past.
How long is a ball of String?
How long is a ball of String? - School text books, glue - 80x80cm - 2007
Around My World
Around My World - Australian School Atlas, on foam board - 30x40cm - 2008