Positive and Negative (circle)

Bedroom Plaster 4x4

4x4 House

Christmas in a jewellery box

4 x 4 Syria

My son was visiting Berlin and met a Syrian guy who he got chatting to. The Syrian was a refugee and talked a lot about the situation in Syria and how difficult it was living in a war torn country. When my son got back to England the guy sent him a picture of his town and said that the building in the centre was actually the house where he used to live. I was quite amazed by the way that some people have to come to terms with appalling conditions in their lives but also that we just take it for granted that it is quite normal to encounter these things on the internet or through television. Its the strangeness of watching the news whilst eating your dinner.

I have recently been working on a series of sculptures that are all based on building that are half demolished through such things as war. It seemed right to use the photo that my son had been sent as part of one of these sculptures. I will probably make it part of a series of 4.

pink satellite candlestick

Structure within a structure. Like a growth on a tree which then becomes a part of the tree. The form is dictated by the structure and vise versa.

Football Riot.

More scenes from the London Riots. No real connection with football although when I was kid that's where most of the riots started. Like with the coconuts piece I really just wanted a fairly innocent enclosure for a more dramatic spurt of energy. Kind of cracking the atom.

Riot glasses

Updated version of Riot Glasses 1 at top and also 2 others from the series clockwise Riot Glasses 2 and Ohio Tornado Glasses. Each one of the series uses photographs from epic news stories which are then recomposed by collaging them onto objects and reforming them.

Chinese whispers

 

 

Most probably best left unsaid.

solar couple

The start of something that could be quite big. The indications are that the one thing is pointing to another. Kind feels like it could be pointing towards a window.

House Barier

Its a question of reality or maybe intervention in it.

barier 2

Its like the world taking control or possibly the other way round.

Our cosmic burden (Betty Boop)

This is part of the 16 piece sculpture Our Cosmic Burden. It can be exhibited in a variable way but usually in a variation on a grid formation. Sometimes on plinths but sometimes on the floor.

Interstella toilet drive



One of those little multi dimensional experiences.

Crash Barier

I lusted after a photographic scene when there was a lot of road works near my studio. Just about got it together to photo which was lucky because it all disapeared just after I took the photos. Slicing them up has acted as a way of structuring the sculpture.

Whole World

This is an extention of a piece I did a few years ago now which had a much smaller globe and the globe was suspended in a hole that went between an upper and lowere layer. The whole thing was contained in a glass vitrine.

I have had plans to exhibit it with a larger globe inside a fridge which is ajar so that the light is on and peiople can peek inside.

Phoenix Brighton Open

Photos of Exhibition at Phoenix Brighton Open Studios

                                           Our Cosmic Burden

                                            Landscape Walking Location shot

old man burden

Part of a larger piece that I intend to show in the Phoenix Open weekend. Lots of little figures carrying things.

Landscape Pillar reworked

In retrospect the piece needed a a bit more time to develop.

Little Boy Blue (riot)

This is one that might be translated into a carrying piece. Maybe walk through Clapham, where the pictures were taken, carrying the sculpture.

"The great fires were now lit on the other side of the ocean. It is not for nothing that Brazil owes its name to the French word for charcoal. Our spread over the earth was fuelled by reducing the higher species of vegetation to charcoal, by incessantly burning whatever would burn. From the first smouldering taper to the elegant lanterns whose light reverberated around 18th century courtyards and from the mild radiance of these lanterns to the unearthly glow of the sodium lamps that line the Belgian motorways, it has all been combustion. Combustion is the hidden principle behind every artifact we create. The making of a fish hook, manufacture of a china cup, or production of a television programme, all depend on the same process of combustion. Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers. From the earliest times, human civilisation has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away."
W.G. Sebald - The Rings of Saturn.