Ominous Decorations (2013-ongoing)
Anachronistic pixelated images created on the ancient matrix of the loom. Interventions into vintage needleworks, cut and reworked into ruinous tapestries.
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.
Ship in a Chanel bottle
Meteor-struck moonlike paperweight
Fossilised conch seashell
Polished lapis lazuli
Shiva Lingam (stone) from India
Victorian sawfish bill
Vine knot
Horseshoe crab shell
Victorian wooden spinning top
Papier maché birds from India, 1880
Crystal Palace paperweight
Desert rose from Andalucia, Spain
French cast iron cacao shell trinket box from Paris
Fossilised sea anemone
Coral mounted on marble
Japanese Meiji bookweight in the shape of a dragon
1920s porcelain mermaid
Fossilised megladon tooth
Swirled glass paperweight
Syro-Hittite tomb bull
Sand paperweight
Bronze female torso
Flint nodule creature
Old carved Brazil nut fruit(8 Brazil nut seeds inside)
Tin mechanised fish swallowing fish
Fossilised sea urchin from Morocco
A pair of painted lead giraffes
Large ammonite
Old wood burr for veneering (olive)
Nautilus shell found on beach in Oman
Royal Crown Derby golden octopus
Driftwood from Andalucia
Carved hare on burr
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Cleave (2016)
As if peering through a gap in the trees this art work focuses on the relationship between light and dark, quarry and hunter. The colour and form of the red figure references Uccello’s practice within the late Gothic tradition and reminds us that red is the colour of fairytales, representing blood (virginity, violence, death).
The Seasons (1996)
light, fire, river
sparkle, sprout, bloom
minnow water
decayed, repulsive;
Who?
Nin (2008-2012)
For Nin, poor Nin. For Nin neither.
So much for you to hear and fear, that owl hoot and dog bark is not for you. Come out from under your wing soft down. You are needed.