What began with the necessity to make my own flyers and album art has become a central part of what I do. In my visual work I look for the sublime or uncanny in the small, the everyday, the ephemeral.
Currently this has led me to working with found fabrics. Above are three masks I made recently with offcuts and fabric stiffener for a group show in The All Good Bookshop‘s new gallery space. The Invisible Salon presents THE FINAL UNCONVENTION ran through November 2024 and was extended into December.
Still on view at The All Good Bookshop you’ll find a giant octopus I made this summer from surplus textiles, book packaging and repurposed plastic waste. At the shop we asked local kids what to call the beast: they tell us his name is Mr. O.
I’m fascinated by macro photography and a process I developed from 1960s liquid lightshow techniques. In a 15cm-diameter glass plate on a lightbox I mix candle dyes, food colouring and other household fluids. I examine, shoot and present the results with minimal digital intervention.
In May 2024 I exhibited some of this work in a show called UNCONTAINED at City Lit Gallery as the culmination of the Developing Artistic Practice course that I took at the college over that academic year. I was in the company of some fabulous artists and it was a rare opportunity to see my photography in physical form.
Though I mainly shoot stills, sometimes I make moving image work too. This is my latest short film, co-created with Vincent Hewett. An analogue / AI exquisite corpse, it’s called THE BOOK OF SNAIL.