I have been invited to make a number of contribution’s to David Evan’s online publication Critical Dictionary.com over the last few years. October 2011 saw the launch of Critical Dictionary in print through Black Dog Publishing. Alongside this publication David Evans curated a show for Work, Black Dog’s own gallery space, which presented a sample of...
With the work now installed at Cockatoo Island, these are a few images from the site by Richard Glover and Katherine Scott. There is also a short interview with The Brag magazine which can be found here.
The series “Dust” began as a series of studio experiments, an attempt to rethink the more directly representational elements of the both the “Island” and “Landscape Objects” pieces. Working with found images and household dirt I looked for a way of bringing together the abstract aerial perspective experienced when either reading a map, looking at...
“Landscape Objects” have been created for the show “Drawing Lines in the Sand”, on Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour, Australia (February 2012). The works began as a way of reflecting on the idea of place, or perhaps more accurately place as an abstract idea. As a kid Australia enchanted me. My aunt moved to Melbourne during...
The “Island” series were created for the show Borderlands at the text+work gallery in Bournemouth. The show was a collaboration between two artists and two writers, myself and Tom Hall, Lee Mackinnon and Frank Brown. The show explored the idea of borders from a series of perspectives, but mostly as unfixed and mutable. These works directly...
“Nadir” was part of the Borderlands exhibition at text+work, and was shown alongside the “Island” works. If the “Island” works were a way of ‘looking out’ from the kitchen table to some kind of imagined utopia, “Nadir” was far more introspective.
Journey to and from Piz Palü is a sketchbook I kept during a trip to Switzerland to visit my brother, who was studying at the University of Zurich. During the stay we took a journey from Zurich to Scuol then on to Diavolezza. Technically we never got as far as Piz Palü, although we could...
These began as a way of making work whilst I was moving around and didn’t have a studio. It is a project that is still ongoing, each time they are shown their installation is reformulated. Making them is a repetitive and fairly mindless activity, but it is the emphasis on small and obsessive ritualistic making that allows...
These sketchbooks record numerous coach journeys, usually to London but also (on one occasion) to Amsterdam. They began, like many of the other sketchbooks, as a way of recording the momentary experience of ‘passing through’ a particular landscape. Initially I had no preconceived idea of what I was going to draw but just continued until I started to...
