‘ongoing nowhere’, ( 2020) triptych assemblage/relief of giclee prints, wool felt, oak chair slats and magnet scraps; live sculpture with stuffed piece.

The work was made for our what three words, three person show, ‘///corner.proof.riders’, at gP project space in October 2020. Prior to this, Nick Simpson, Andrew Bracey and I had curated an exhibition of work made by 45 artists during lockdown and we were keen to curate a show of our own work made during that period. The pieces were a reflection on the contentment of going nowhere.

 

 

‘ongoing past’  2019,  heat transfer print on kizuki tosa kozo paper 18gsm (65 x 80cm)

I was invited by Andrew Bracey to make a work for Fully Awake 4.6, 2019, at Edinburgh College of Art. The piece forms part of the series ‘ongoing‘ begun in 2016.

Fully Awake was a cycle of exhibitions with an intergenerational approach to how painting is taught. Thirteen artists teaching at UK art institutions showed their work alongside that of two guest artists, one of whom they have taught, and the other who has taught them. Exhibiting artists included Sonia Boyce, Alexis Harding and Dan Hays. The show was curated by Ian Hartshorne and Sean Kaye for the organisation Teaching Painting.

Circling around the futility of seeking, ‘On Going On’ is a series of images with accompanying text fragments from Beckett’s ‘ The Unnamable’..

“something is wanting to make it clear, I’ll seek, what is wanting, to make everything clear, I’m always seeking something, it’s tiring in the end”

The pieces formed a kind of loose leaf book of looping narrative which could be rearranged. The work was shown as part of Holdingspace, a show I curated at General Practice in 2019, where the project space became a library of sorts – a place for lingering and leafing through. The seven artists responded to the space with works that invited haptic engagement. The artworks were to be touched  – pieces that could be picked up and peered into, read and rearranged, held, worn or listened to intimately.

‘Fractopia’ is a two part series of collaborative collages produced with Nick Simpson. The first iteration was shown at General Practice, Lincoln in 2017 alongside sonic performances by Stewart Collinson and Duncan Chapman.

The first series reappropraiated imagery gathered from working alongside Joana Cifre-Cerda’s performances, transposing the figure into layered/fractured landscapes.

‘Fractopia#2’ was shown at General Practice in 2018.

 

 

‘Halfknown’ is a video-text piece commissioned by Steve Dutton and Andrew Bracey for ‘In Midpointness’, 2016.

Characterised by absence and sense of unease, Samuel Beckett’s ‘Ping’ is pared back even further, reduced to a single block of text that pulses in and out of focus.

First published in Else Journal Elsefoundation.org/In-Midpointness and later installed at ‘Homelab 2’, Lincoln, General-Practice/Home-Lab-1-2