MeToo: ReCast

Pewter sculpture; rape; EMDR; #MeToo

MeToo:Recast (pewter). One of a series relating to our ability to rewrite traumatic memories (with assistance, in my case, through EMDR therapy).

Espacio Gallery, February-March 2023

STREET heritage

‘Street Heritage’, Southbank, 2019 (unofficial installation)

A plaque designed and installed at the Southbank, London, in honour of Andy Palfreyman, an advocate for people who have lived without homes. Andy spent his first night homeless, in this stairwell, the start of 30 years living street homeless.

‘Street Heritage’ interview with Andy Palfreyman, from his story of living street homeless, to his advice to policy makers.

museum of social housing

Southwark, December 2019

The Museum of Social Housing was a pop-up museum in a former council flat in a tower block on the edge of one of Britain’s biggest new regeneration schemes, which combined the stories and intimacy of a home with the politics of London’s housing crisis. I worked with three students from Goldsmiths, including the tentant of the flat, to curate a rich mix of art works, including photography, collage, original audio work, two participatory works, a Christmas card to raise money for a local housing activist group, art works by the housing activist group, original visual works, as well as “borrowing” a temporary exhibit from another museum, reproducing photographs and works by a local school. The warm ambience of the flat, with mince pies, mulled wine and music, created free exchange, where people took time to explore the many layers of content.

Albatross

Permanent collection, Loyola University, New Orleans

Albatross (Milk bottles, misc plastic waste, copper wire). 80cm by 100cm

Albatross (Milk bottles, misc plastic waste, copper wire). 80cm by 100cm. Albatross was exhibited at an exhibition at the Loyola University, which acquired the work for permanent display.

‘Albatross’ was exhibited at the Diboll Gallery, Loyola University, New Orleans (Sept 2021-Jan 2022). It is now part of their permanent collection.  

Bags for Life (Plastic Bags, Plaster Masks; each mask approx 20cm x 10cm)

Death Masks Plastic Bags, Plaster Masks; each mask approx 20cm x 10cm. (In private collection).

Exhibited at The Chamber Room, Corsham, September-October, 2018.

Portraiture (2017-20)

L to R: Rowan (jesmonite/sandstone); Tanya (plaster); Serendipity (Raku fired stonewear)

L to R: Shara (plaster); Maya (concrete); Justice (plaster)

Anya’s Birds

Nieman Foundation, Walter Lippmann House, Harvard University

A sculpture commissioned for the Neiman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard, to honour former fellow Anya Niedringhaus, a German photographer who was killed in Afghanistan in 2014.