I made this drawing on a train journey from a reference image found in a 50s book about the fishing industry. The paper is the reverse of a military print retrieved from a framed acquisition at my local art auction house. It is intended to highlight the long and rather unequal relationship between humans and …
The Bison is sourced from my animal annual ‘Introducing Animals’ the portraits of animals do give them some dignity, but you sense that the enclosures are always just a bit too small for animals who are used to roaming wide and far. Although it is probably the case that this animal was born in captivity …
Tiger in lead coat was the product of a long process, the 30s tiger came from a charity shop and the lead from a field near Penzance. It , as it were, fell together when I dropped the lead onto the floor and it seemed to acquire the shape it needed to be to fit …
A quick creative process lead to this piece, the circuit board the bear walks on was found at the beach, the wood from outside someone’s house in Penzance, and the bear from Ebay. It is obvious to say that we could not have a more poignant symbol of the climate change problems we all face …
Somehow making work for the Cabinet exhibition at Daisy Laing’s gallery in Penzance allowed ‘Cow one Christ’ to come together. Finding a cabinet and an orange wall at the gallery focused the elements, which I had been living with for a while, of this assemblage in my mind. Again the themes of capitalism, large agribusiness …
This assemblage was the product of a long process of finding the various objects and trying multiple ways of joining them together. The key idea was the hollowing out and gilding of the found wooden block. The weather beaten driftwood appeared on Mounts Bay Beach after a storm. The poses of the figure and panda …
Initially the plastic doll was a place to put unmixed oil paint at the end of a painting session. Then she became a new piece of work in her own right. Later acquiring a once grand ornate Chinese glove box as a home and more plastic animals, through which she is dreaming. Some work just …
A visit to an art gallery in Spain yielded the small plastic hand, a rare new purchase and not easy for me to make with regards to the environment, however it made this piece come together when I discovered the fit was perfect with the plastic horse. I try to retain an element of humour …
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