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Too little pie to go around - or that’s what we’re lead to believe. Too little room in the boardroom for more women, too little room to allow space for difference. Too little of everything, only enough for those who already have a lot … So I made pie available to everyone by allowing viewers to ‘pick’ a pie, photographing it and handing them the resulting image. Every person viewing can equally take their own photograph and take their own pie for themselves.
Oil on Canvas, lining paper, marker, salted caramel chocolate pie, Polaroid camera, polariod photographs
CSM March 2020
Oil on Canvas 2m x 1.8m
We consume.
We consume without consideration and we create the conditions that cause precarity for others.
Discarded styrofoam food containers, christmas wrapping paper, thread, gold thread,
CSM February 2020
This stream of work was developed using found materials. We invent, collect, build and gather that around us which we need to feel secure. It is precarious, unsure and subject to the whims of what existed before. Inherent in the title ‘Beds’ is the universal need to sleep. The conditions under which we find ourselves at the point where we have to become utterly vulnerable.
November 2019, CSM
Reclaimed fishing line and backing
Dorset, 2020
negative space remnants, the unused, discarded and wasted, which were part of a wrapping, covering and shielding, now here as objects in their own right, alluding to the space they outlined. One where there is often negativity, often nurture and shielding
1400 grade lining paper, wallpaper paste, remnants of dust, insects and indexical embossings
Dorset Sept 2020
7cm x 56cm
11.5cm x 32cm
30cm x 68cm
17cm x 104cm
38cm x 102cm
26cm x 90cm (approx)
20cm x 56cm
19cm x 23cm
18cm x 29cm
The objects in this book have tracked a life
Their choice was sometimes chance, sometimes intended, but in all cases at some point in their history they were fetishised either in the setting of the shop, or in a catalogue, or by me as I was seduced by their qualities. The resultant history they carry with them and their re-photographing and re-presentation in a new ‘catalogue’ is intended to reflect on the unrealistic expectations we have, that objects can bring us fulfillment. They can only be useful, or not useful. Otherwise they act as weight and responsibility.
40 page, soft cover, August 2020
(Available to purchase signed and numbered editions. Limited to 20)
Yum! Oooh I love cake.
This cake will show how much love I have for ….. something …
I can’t remember what.
A wedding cake ‘defines status’ and ‘says more than the vows’ (quote from Brides)
Reclaimed packaging and bathroom sealant
June 2020
It’s too much. Lockdown is so so strange. I feel the pull of the natural, and the inner mother in me who needs to nurture and hold on to something, to wrap it up, to hold it down whilst feeling light headed with worry.
Blanket, wool thread, hazel branches, plaster bandage, cable ties April 2020
Deliberate breakage, visibly mended
Stone on stone breakage, repaired with neon narrow gaffer tape
Attention on the domestic and the destructive
Steel Kitchen Knives, Wire, Jesmonite CSM, March 2019
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams
(W B Yeats)
(The misnomer is a mistake, so the mistake stands)
25m paper, acrylic paint Central St Martins, Nov 2018
Creation of a space both governed by technology and connected to nature in the inhospitable concrete of an artschool not fit for purpose. The stilted settings into which we are asked to speak are overcome in this ‘natural’ setting.
A collaboration with a number of fellow students
CSM Studios, November 2019
WHAT’S THE TIME MR WOLF?
A 2 hour performative collaboration with Karl Murphy, Constance Leterre Roberts, Heather Gainey, Stella Diamond, Laurie Martin & Beth Brookes
Tate Exchange January 2019