Pythagoras said that dust was a substance between the visible and the invisible; particles of dust are souls of the air. Andy Goldworthy’s thrown snow in the crystal air dematerialised in the wind, his stone pigment melted into river water, my studio’s dust is blown and unsettled from its soft slumber by an icy draft. Using paper [...]
For the last 6 months I have been collating a small daily relic; a substance, fragment or found object that evokes a memory of each day. I put each relic in a test tube sealed with a natural cork bung. Each test tube is a relic and is hung in turn, using plaited hair, on a wrought iron double spiral frame. This will [...]
Pushing forward with my forensic etching technique, I am anxious to increase the size and scale of works, using a single plate rather than multiples. For imagery, I have made many lensless photographic silhouettes of my body together with scattered images of eclectic personal items following Judd’s method of bringing specific objects ‘nearer to painting’. Involving the detritus of an [...]