FILMRemains at the Crypt

Film of exhibition at Crypt Gallery, Seaford in November 2019. 365 small sculptures all based on war torn buildings in a variety of wars. Also showing Moth on Mouth which is a short film directed by Dave Stephens and Matt Page.

Short film made by Chris Beaumont and featuring extra footage by Kate Auster. 

Dave Head in box x 9

This is an extension piece from the collaborative work that I have been doing with Will Stephens. He created the 9 heads that are in the boxes. I created the boxes. The idea was to create a sculpture that took advantage of a specific dimension. In this case it was the distance between the top of the book case and the ceiling. The heads were created using a 3D printer and are a multiple of the same image. It is the image that was originally used to for the VEIL film that we showed in the Room 103 exhibition at the Saul Hay Gallery in Manchester. The images on the boxes are from images that have been used in other sculptures that I have produced in recent times. Kind of elaborate extensions to memories and experiences; a sort of diary.

Sitting Room Exhibition Phoenix Brighton, February 17 - March 18 2018

 Above is Dave Stephens piece.

 Above Foreground in Lewis Robinson, background is Dave Stephens.

 Above is Dave Stephens piece.

 Above front 3 sculptures are Lewis Robinson

 Above is Anne Bean piece

 Above is The drawing Room which was a collection of drawings, a sculpture from 1971 and a film 2003.

 Above charcoal drawing by Dave Stephens

 Above sketchbook studies by Dave Stephens.

Above sketchbook studies by Dave Stephens.

Christmas card 2016

This years Christmas card is a circle that spins out of the card to slowly obliterate the face. The image on the circle is cut from a black and white photo of the scene of bombing in Aleppo, Syria.

Black box

Glass Divide

The pictures covering the body of the sculpture are of a conservatory.

Fallen House

4X4 sloping roofs

Red House jam pots

3 small jam pots from the Red House (William Morris) obtained after having cream tea there. Plinth sculpture below and contained sculpture within.

stalagmites

I've had a series of ideas over the years about sculptures that are attached to the ceiling and stretching down to other sculptures that are reaching up.

Holly Balls (sculpture disguising itself as a Christmas decoration)

The sculpture was made about two years ago but has been hidden away in a box. It was exhibited on the Christmas tree as a structure that was meant to complement and fit with its surroundings. It is an extension of work that I started in 1969 when I made a series of sculptures out of either No 6 cigarette  packets or Swan Vesta matchboxes which were then left on buses or park benches for anybody to find or take away. In the early 80's I extended  the idea of sculpture that would be found as part of the environment by inserting small wooden structures into corners of telephone boxes. The structures were reminiscent of such things as swallow nests. 

4X4 towers with growths

Surrounding negative space

Positive and Negative (circle)

war (buildings)

                                       

The sculptures are part of a larger scale version which is being made up out of lots of small buildings. These are made using cut up photos from war zones. Most of them are of deserted and wrecked towns which have been bombed. The eventual sculpture will hopefully be made up of lots of buildings which can then be arranged on the floor to be walked through like a lilliputlian scene of desolation.

Box and cup (a gift)

Christmas in a jewellery box

Riot in a jewellery box

Its a play on the idea of jewellery. It doesn't act as normal piece of jewellery because it is meant to be exhibited in its box, not worn. The images are ones of the London Riots which have been a theme in my work in the past.

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.