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My work varies in medium - drawing, painting, objects, video and installation - but is consistent in it's interest: an exploration of the fluid realm that is the unconscious.

To this end I use texture and found objects as means of attempting to bypass rational thought and immerse myself in (or be immersed by) a space that is elusive and intangible and yet as pertinent as the visible.

Play, chance and accident have a crucial role in this process, as does automatism. The thrill of the unpredictable is the matrix of this journey. There is an element of randomness in the nature of the execution of each medium and technique that allows an intuitive process to lead the way.

The narratives that surface and evolve form part of an unfolding personal mythology.

The work is informed by formative years in South Africa, African and Greek mythology and readings in prehistory.

EVENTS & RECENT WORK
 

A short video with David Greenslade, curator of the exhibition Perfectly Frank at the Volcano Gallery in Swansea 17 October-7 November 2023

Experimenting with texture 2023

oil on board 56.5 x 61cm

MEDUSA'S DREAMTIME

2023

Duration: 4.18mins

Created by merging a series of still photos of finger-drawing in beach sand on a sheet of glass placed over black paper. 

Accompanied by the sound of breathing/sea.

A year since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. These drawings from March 2022 were my initial response - nothing has changed -  yet.
DOGS OF WAR I: RELEASED
charcoal on paper 59 X 116cm
DOGS OF WAR II: THE TURNING
charcoal on paper 59 X 84 cm
DOGS OF WAR III: END GAME?
charcoal on paper 59 x 84cm

oil on board

53.5 X 66cm

SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIPS 2021-22

Four works created over several months as a response to a collaboration between myself and New York poet, writer and playwright Allan Graubard.

He suggested we work on the subject of the symbiotic relationship between fungi and plants. As part of our collaboration we agreed that complete freedom was essential for this to succeed, freedom to respond to each others work as well as our own individual research with no expectations on how this exploration and investigation would develop.

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DREAMING THE FOUND

Exhibition at Farleys Gallery, East Sussex BN8 6HW

July 15 - September 05 2021

 

Farleys House & Gallery 

the home of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose

www.farleyshouseandgallery.co.uk

WORK DURING THE TIME OF COVID 2020

When I knew that my exhibition at Farleys Gallery was going to be postponed, and that a pandemic was upon us, I thought I'd make a 3D anti-Covid fetish piece based on the magnificent mummified Nile crocodile at the British Museum. As Museums were closed I had to rely on the internet for any research. At 12 feet it's the BM's largest mummy. A fabulous beast, it's covered in wax and resin that over time has turned black. And most extraordinary, it has 30 mummified hatchlings on it's back.

My croc was planned as something dark in colour, magical, mysterious and mythological. What emerged as the strange COVID times permeated every social aspect of our lives, was a crazy carnival creature that could be worn in a very active social celebratory dance or procession. 

During that summer of 2020 I experimented with pouring acrylic binder, PVA and paint directly onto canvas and ideas once again centred around areas of ancient myth and prehistory.

Medium: fluid acrylics on canvas. 

In Portal II & III, the texture created resulted in images of a cave-like space with undecipherable signs and symbols on the walls.

In the series Archeology of the Unconscious it led to a surface structure reminiscent of fossils or the bones of mythological beasts embedded in the land. A reflection of the inner cartography of a longed for land mass in a state of ancient innocence.

The Women's Art Library (WAL) App How to Make An Archive Travel? led by Dr Ana-Maria Herman is up and running.

It features seven women artists and artworks from the Women’s Art Library located in the Special Collections and Archives of Goldsmiths Library, University of London.

A special ‘participate’ feature in the App allows you to help bring more attention to the work of women artists (within and beyond the archive), as well as the Women’s Art Library itself, by making your own ‘WAL art slide’ which can be posted on various social media sites (links on the App).

 

Funding: Women’s Art Library, Goldsmiths’ Research Development Funds (CIG) and Goldsmiths’ Public Engagement Grants.

WAL App: https://appsto.re/gb/Fqn7gb.i

This App requires iOS 9.0 or later, and is compatible with iPhone (5s or later), iPad and iPod touch

For more information: howtomakeanarchivetravel.wordpress.com

Exhibition DETOUR: CYCLISTS DISMOUNT

Venue: Eugenio Granell Museum-Foundation, Santiago de Compostella, Spain.

6 April - 28 June 2016

Photographs of exhibition and Private View: Lorena Rodriguez, Granell Foundation
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