‘Homage’

On an autumn day, following a storm, when the air was brisk, and fallen leaves piled high; we cooked some jacket potatoes for lunch, in a fire at the allotment where we held our workshops. We took this opportunity to make charcoal. Having previously collected and dried fallen twigs and small branches, we wrapped them tightly in tin foil and cooked them underneath the jacket potatoes. We left them cooking through the night amongst the embers. In a following workshop, we used the charcoal to draw portraits of the trees which surrounded us in the allotment.

‘Homage’ is a temporary and site-specific sculpture at The National Justice Museum in Nottingham. It is created from charcoal made by participants in the workshop described above, which was part of the 2nd iteration of the Artists in Residence at C2C Social Action residency. It’s placed upon a printed drawing of a tree, drawn by one of the participants using the charcoal placed within the sculpture. 

Each charcoal piece became an intimate sculptural object, some resembling rock-like forms, while others retained original features of their previous existences as twigs. Some of these rock-like forms I glued together to become standing stones, while the delicate carbonised twigs, were placed on or around the tree’s branches.

Section from ‘Homage’

Site Specific, Temporary Sculpture

Homemade Charcoal, Glue and Printed Drawing

Project Lab at the National Justice Museum

2023

Section from ‘Homage’

Site Specific, Temporary Sculpture

Homemade Charcoal, Glue and Printed Drawing

Project Lab at the National Justice Museum

2023

Section from ‘Homage’

Site Specific, Temporary Sculpture

Homemade Charcoal, Glue and Printed Drawing

Project Lab at the National Justice Museum

2023

‘Homage’

Site Specific, Temporary Sculpture

Homemade Charcoal, Glue and Printed Drawing

Project Lab at the National Justice Museum

2023

 

‘Castle of Control’

A series of works exploring the emotions, tensions and trauma surrounding difficult or abusive domestic environments.

‘The Castle of Housework’

Flat Pack Sculpture and Extended Painting

Elements of this installation was made in collaboration with participants from C2C Social Action, taking part in the first iteration of the Artists in Residence @ programme. 

The work explores the routine and repetitiveness of housework, especially the movements made with our bodies when cleaning and fixing. It also reflects opposing feelings of respite and the sensation that housework is a vehicle with which to exorcise frustrations and built up tensions.

‘The Castle’

Flat Pack Sculpture

Cardboard, Household Paint, Oil Pastels, Ink, Paper and Cocktail Sticks

2ft x 2ft x 1ft

Made in collaboration with participants from C2C Social Action, taking part in the first iteration of the Artists in Residence @ programme.

2019

‘Housework’

Household Paint, Ink, Oil Pastels Using Rags, Shower Scrapers, Broom Heads and Household Brushes

6ft x 4ft

2019

‘Housework’ – Installation

Extended Painting: Household Paint, Ink, Oil Pastels Using Rags, Shower Scrapers, Broom Heads and Household Brushes, Wire Threads made from Wire, Found Fabrics and Cotton Thread

6ft x 4ft x 5ft

The threads were made in collaboration with participants from C2C Social Action, taking part in the first iteration of the Artists in Residence @ programme.

Exhibited in the Project Space at NN Contemporary Art

2019

‘The Castle of Housework’ – Installation

Painting: Household Paint, Ink, Oil Pastels Using Rags, Shower Scrapers, Broom Heads and Household Brushes, Wire Threads made from Wire, Found Fabrics and Cotton Thread

6ft x 4ft x 3ft

The castle was made in collaboration with participants from C2C Social Action, taking part in the first iteration of the Artists in Residence @ programme.

Exhibited in the Project Space at NN Contemporary Art

2019

‘Loss of Control’

Sculpture exploring the tensions and trauma held within the minds and bodies of people affected by domestic abuse, together with emotions relating to loss of control of one’s existence.

Paper, Acrylic, String, Thread, Acrylic, Oil Pastel, Ink, Pedestal

Exhibited in the Project Space at NN Contemporary Art

2019

‘St Pancras and Kate Bush and the Ever Silent Ticking of it’s Speeding Clock’ and ‘Davies in the Bowie Star Sky Cave’

There was a lot I wanted to say, but couldn’t. There was a lot I wanted to express, but couldn’t. 

Held and hidden within these tightly bound, colourful books is everything I wanted to be known, but couldn’t, keeping it all tightly bound and locked within myself. 

‘Davies in the Bowie Star Cave’

Artist Book (Section Presented when Unbound)

Oil Pastel, Pen and Coloured Pencil on Paper

7cms x 4.5cms When bound as a book
7cms x 30cms approx. when opened

2017

‘Davies in the Bowie Star Cave’

Detail

Coloured Pencil, Pen and Oil Pastel on Paper

Each Page 6cms x 4cms

Bound as a Book 7cms x 4.5cms

Unfolded 3ocms x 4.5cms

2017

(L-R)
‘St Pancras and Kate Bush and the Ever Silent Ticking of it’s Speeding Clock’ and ‘Davies in the Bowie Star Sky Cave’

Artists Books

Coloured Pen, Pencil, Oil Pastel, Paper, Ribbon, Stitch and Popper Clip

Each Open Book: 16cms depth x 4cms height x 30cms length 

2017

‘Alice in Worryland/ Lost in the Woods’

Diorama/Construction

Pen on Fabriano

Dimensions Variable

2016