PROJECTIONS 2
NOVEMBER 2022
LOST AND FOUND
AUGUST 2022
Looking back and forth
Research Engineers, Orsman Road Hackney
Digbeth, Brimingham
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In 1983 I left my London studio and travelled to Birmingham to complete an MA and then stayed on and took a studio in Digbeth. Before I left London I had t dispose of a lot of work that I had made in the ACME studio in Orsman Road, Hackney and work from my house also in Hackney. I through away a lot of work, but in the speed of my exit, something that has been a characteristic of my many moves, there was some work that it was easier to store in the oft of my parents house than take them to the council dump. So thats how the work arrived in Ilford.
My mother died a few years ago, but the house we had not got around to selling until this year. My sister and I worked out what furniture we would have and so my trip was to sort out the furniture and arrange for someone from Folkestone, Jack, to come up and collect them to bring back. In this time I knew that there were works that I hurriedly had left there, there were some cardboard works that I wanted to look at again, but the rest I was happy to take to the dump. The cardboard works and works on paper was much more than I had remembered, there was no time to sort out the drawings there, so I thought I might as well bring everything back to Folkestone and sort out here. I am so glad I did. There were some works from the 70’s and 80’s and a lot of work that I am happy to reuse or turn into refuse. But there was also a lot more work that I would be happy to be seen again, and be happy to be shown again. The majority of the work has never been shown, there was only one occasion in 1982 (?) where I showed them in the Self hire ACME Gallery in Bethnal Green, with the artist John Wallett.
So during this August period I prepared my studio to have a look back at that period.
The experience has been revealing and it has changed my perception of that period of my life, where I thought much of the experimentation was best lost. I had in a sense written off most of the work I made in the 80’s.
In face the horror of the bad work was only undertaken in approximately 18 months. In fact the decade was much more fruitful than i had misremembered.
These works are important to my history they are the missing link that connects my early work to the building cutouts in the 90’s to the performance work that I am currently preoccupied with.
So during this August period I prepared my studio to have a look back at that period.
The experience has been revealing and it has changed my perception of that period of my life, where I thought much of the experimentation was best lost. I had in a sense written off most of the work I made in the 80’s.
In face the horror of the bad work was only undertaken in approximately 18 months. In fact the decade was much more fruitful than i had misremembered.
These works are important to my history they are the missing link that connects my early work to the building cutouts in the 90’s to the performance work that I am currently preoccupied with.
PERFORMANCE PROPOSITION
JULY 2022
Between lockdowns I was able to plan and develop a series of new performance pieces for different settings. Working with Ash McNaughton and Lise Boucon as been essential and a joy, developing a series of works under the umbrella title - Walk Stand Still. My process is playful, uncertain, tentative and I am sure annoying. But both Ash and Lise were fantastic bringing energy and curiosity, enabling us to play, take ideas and pursue them wherever they went. Paul Cheneour, the Jazz flutist/composer has been part of this project from the beginning and the British Composer John Woolrich has been key, an important colleague and influential in all aspects of this process from the very beginning.
During these sessions a number of pieces began to take shape, these include, Intersection-interaction a piece designed originally for the crossways junctions of New York, Bedlam, Audience, Ghosting, Performance, Chair, Mirror Mirror and Command-control-shift. There is also a work designed specifically for galleries and museums called Between Walls.
Isolation, loneliness, fear, social distance, mental health and wellbeing have become something many have experienced in one way or another and in particular during the stress of lockdowns, where these conditions have been amplified. These are some of the themes that have been explored or touched on in the developing sessions that began in March
DRAWING
JUNE 2022
PROJECTIONS
MAY 2022
Single screen
Two screen
PHOTOGRAPHY
APRIL 2022
Selected works from current projects and archive reaching back 40 years, no deliberate choices, other than shapes and graphics all printed up the same day. Then, taken to the gallery space and installed using chance operations.
I was interested to see the juxtaposition and connections between the images.
