Slate

89x22x55mm

Card (Marlboro Carton), Adhesive, Laser Cutting

When looking at the brief for the exhibition, I was drawn to making something a physical object as a starting point. I was thinking very much of the cigarette packet as a mass produced constructed object, and a container.

It was it’s function as a container, and something with an internal and external

space that interested me. Here was a box, a small iconic container.

I had always admired the precision and crispness in the design of a cigarette carton. As a child I often used, among other things used cigarette cartons to make things (both my parents smoked heavily at the time),

I thought of the scale of the cigarette box, something designed with the body in mind, yet small enough to be concealed about the body.

I had already started to work with model houses after a friend had got me a

cardboard model kit house as a present, the kind used for model railways

It occurred to construct something in complete contrast to a cigarette carton and its designated function, so I decided to make a small replica of an architectural structure or building, something very distinctive.

I began looking at buildings as appropriate models, and fixed on american flatboard houses. Marlboro, although originally an English brand, is strongly identified and marketed as american. While I began looking at classic American houses (particularly those along the east coast in Maine and Conetticut) similar to the gothic houses in Edward Hoppers’ paintings, it occurred to me that the most iconic American building of that type was from popular cinema rather than art, namely the house designed for Alfred Hitchcocks’ Psycho.

The minute scale of the model is again a contrast to the size of the house as it appears in the film, yet still menacing because of it’s cinematic references.

The irony of choosing the Bates House was that I later discovered that the house was never a real existing building, but a three quarter external studio set constructed entirely for the film.

Cast Human Bone, Epoxy medium

23x8mm Approx

Wegework (Keilwerk) 2001

Handmade Wooden Wedges, Lacquer, Velcro

16×600 cm approx

100 Parts

Installation View, BBQ Gallery, Berlin

Apple (Flower of Kent), Acacia Honey,  Glass Jars, Polymer Seal, Shelf

18x20cm Approx

Apple from tree* from cutting from the original apple tree in Issac Newtons’ garden in Lincolnshire.

*Royal Botanical Gardens, Cambridge

White Vinyl-cut lettering on Wall

40X25cm Approx

Edition of 3

White Bunting

Dimensions Variable

Installation View

Engraved Perspex, Concealed Lighting, Timber

Quote from “The Well of the Saints” by John Millingdon Synge

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Untitled (Tricolor) 2005

Genlments Pocket Hankerchiefs, Pigment

48x48cm Approx

A4 Cartridge Paper (2 Parts)

Two identical pieces of cartiridge paper from the same ream, one

crumbeld and screwed up continously and kept in the artists pocket for

six weeks

Hide 2009

Leather Club Sofa, TV Monitor, DVD Player

DVD Loop of  1976 episode of BBC Television Science Fiction series “Doctor Who”.

28 Parts

Dimesions Variable

A series of blank Flyleaves collected from different books in the Artists Colletion

Blackout Paper, Spraymount

Dimensions Variable

Laser-Cut Black Card, Spraymount

Installation View, Woburn Place Gallery, London.

12mx 1.5m Approx

Installation View

Archival Digital Prints

148x218mm Approx

2 Parts

Photographs of an Apple before and after being polished with an industrial burnisher

Prisms, Armatures, Spriris Levels, Sunlight

7 Parts

Dimensions Variable

Private Collection, Provence, France

5 Piece Drum kit, Flocking

Collection of the Artist

Dimensions Variable

Installation View-Berrick Gymnasium Gallery, Northumbria

Assorted Flocked Lightbulbs

Dimensions Variable

Private Collection, London

Abney 1995

Vinyl cut Lettering, Aluminium, Self-Adhiesive Display Film

8 Parts

Private Collection, London

Untitled (Pitch) 2000
Engraved Mirrors, MDF
Installation View-Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery

364 Flocked Lightbulbs (Approx)

400x750cm approx

Installation View-Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol.