Trace (2016)
I wanted to create a work that used just a few very strong elements to show the power of a repeated shape. I drew this grid over Uccello’s painting to reveal his mastery of perspective and as the starting point for Trace.
Collecting
Things on the windowsill,
amongst books,
on the mantelpiece,
in a jewellery box,
on the desk,
in a wide flat bowl,
in a glass cabinet,
hanging in the studio.
Fossilised sea urchin from Morocco
Flint nodule creature
Swirled glass paperweight
Desert rose from Andalucia, Spain
Fossilised conch seashell
Syro-Hittite tomb bull
Victorian sawfish bill
Crystal Palace paperweight
Sand paperweight
Large ammonite
Fossilised megladon tooth
Driftwood from Andalucia
Old wood burr for veneering (olive)
Old carved Brazil nut fruit(8 Brazil nut seeds inside)
Bronze female torso
Royal Crown Derby golden octopus
Victorian wooden spinning top
Papier maché birds from India, 1880
A pair of painted lead giraffes
Fossilised sea anemone
Polished lapis lazuli
Coral mounted on marble
French cast iron cacao shell trinket box from Paris
Shiva Lingam (stone) from India
Carved hare on burr
Tin mechanised fish swallowing fish
Vine knot
Ship in a Chanel bottle
Nautilus shell found on beach in Oman
Horseshoe crab shell
Japanese Meiji bookweight in the shape of a dragon
Meteor-struck moonlike paperweight
1920s porcelain mermaid
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Darkest Mysteries of the Universe (2019-2020)
Series of drawings of imaginary science fiction comic covers on intangible subjects from dark matter to ghosts.
Screenplay
The grinding keeps us awake all night. The slipping noise of tooth against tooth, the squeak and rasp of shiny enamelled edges filing monotonously against an equal occluded opposite.
Emotional Machinery
There was something wrong with the sea. The waves were oily and green and forest-filled, like the kelp had been ripped from its leathery footholds by a far away storm and carried here by the currents. A thick tangle of tentacles and skeins spread across the water holding bulging sacs that popped open as they reached the surface and spewed hundreds of bugs onto the undulating skin.