5 Asteroids in search of the After Shave box

Almost  a selective narrative going on with the 5 small objects seeking a sheltering place for themselves. Each one fits exactly into the box and all five are vying for that position. In the end it will be touch and go which one actually docks itself into the station.

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.

Lilliputian partially desimated town

Black Box Suicide Bomber

The demolishing buildings are covered in newspaper photos from the devastation left by a suicide bomber outside a public toilet.

4x4 eclipsing black hole

A continuation of the idea that lilliputian buildings can be created that can be viewed from above as if you are travelling above them in a plane. A million little buildings that are destroyed every day.

Storm in a teacup (firebomb).

Ball is covered in images of a firebomb exploding in a war zone.

Storm in a teacup (after Turner).

Glass Divide

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

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.

Bathroom window sculpture (She came in through....)

The structure is based on a view of my bathroom window. The coverings are pictures of Christmas trees. The intrusion is made up of pictures of the conservatory dissected and restructured. Possibly a maquette for a full size sculpture.

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

Positive and Negative (circle)

Bedroom Plaster 4x4

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)

4x4 House

Christmas in a jewellery box