Previous Works
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All works have been a part of the journey to get to where my work is now heading.
Public Art Works Exterior Sculpture
‘The cook House’
Brungerly Sculpture Trail, Clitheroe.
A constructed sculpture with an angle iron, 4 legged platform, concrete base, industrial stainless steel pot and cast alibronze. ‘The Cook House’ relates to the rich history of fossils trapped within the limestone landscape, the industrial quarrying that carved and shaped out the area, the mineral railway tracks that served the quarry until its abandonment and the subsciquent, little known tripe processing plant that was hidden away in the quarry site.
The pan erupts boiling ooze that spews fossils back down the industrial, angle iron legs, where cement concrete reaches up to meet it. The extended structure frames the rocky limestone behind, highlighing the vast timeline in the landscape.
‘Time Flow’ Community Sculpture.
Sculptural Installations
‘Precious and Found’
Lost and Found Exhibition Event, Saltwell Park, Gateshead.
A light installation of 32 lit cages, containing various objects relating to lost property offices and the sometimes bizarre objects that are left behind. Found objects, made objects and reconstructed objects are suspended within metal and wooden bird cages of different types and sizes.
The cages separate and display the objects, each one viewed as an individual with it’s own unique story of connection and reason for abandonment.
‘Calico People’
Museums at Night, Queen St. Mill, Briercliffe.
A day to night installation with lighting and sound, in a working museum weaving shed. Six cloaked figures stand silently, whilst the sound of working looms clatter noisily. Light glows through the calico fabric, highlighting the absence of people within. Each figure is integrated into the mill structure, held up and shaped by the building. Raw calico fibres and printed fabric samples link and connect the figures. The lotus emblem marks the original influence of early Indian textiles on British textiles.
‘Story Lines’
The eclectic museum collection with its many quirky objects, some without complete background stories, inspired hanging, acetate installations. Photographic images were taken of selected objects that prompted curiosity and imagination. Transferred to acetate and suspended in multiple layered sheets within specific areas around the museum, the installations highlighted the individuality of each of the objects and their many back stories. The workshops and story telling event further explored the potential for the objects to contain stories and their ultimate connection to the museum.
‘Precious and Found 2’
Submerge Exhibition, Art Waves Arts Festival, Bridlington.
A light installation of 32 lit cages, re purposed with new objects, representing historical objects that have made their way through or remain in the land and seascape of Bridlington.
A shoal of rubber and wire herring fish pass through a cage as they once passed through Bridlington’s coastal seas. Factory ships and overfishing reduced numbers and is now a lost industry.
A cast resin replica of a lost mediaeval crown jewel, ‘The Three Bretheren’ hangs in an ornate cage. Queen Henrietta Maria arrived back in Bridlington in 1643, with arms for the Royalist cause. Likely pawned on the trip to Europe to fund the arms, the famous Crown Jewel of Elizabeth 1 was never seen again.
Artwork with Communities
‘Weather Gods’
Weather or Not Carnival Festival. Community and school workshops creating two sculptural, wire and paper mache heads with emblems and a hanging rain and rainbow installation. The installations provided a processional walk through the park tower entrance and exit.
The rain installation was a collection of thematic text and decorated mylar and laminated raindrops.
Left: The Singing Ringing Tree Cairn L Middle: Garstang Pavillion Graffitti. R Middle: Paint Padiham Gawthorpe Hall Right: Windows on Fleetwoods Future Murals